Do VOLUNTEER meter maids have th authority to issue parking tickets?

I know that they DO issue parking tickets... but if they are volunteer and dont actually have a badge... could one fight the ticket, claiming that the volunteer officer doesnt have the authority to issue the ticket in the first place?

Fr_Chuck

If the city has empowered them to do so.

There are VOLUNTEER police officers, normally called Reserve or some other term. If sworn they have the powers of arrest, carry the gun and so on.

For example in TN volunteer or part time police officers do not have to be POST Certified merely sworn in. ** Reminds me of Gobber on the Andy Griffith show raising his hand to be sworn in.

So if they are issueing tickets then it appeas your state and your city allows them to do so.

Thier paid status has nothing to do with thier power or authority, thier assigned position and the state and city law reguarding it is all that matters.