Speeding

Statute of Limitations in Texas ticket? The term of office?

So I got a traffic ticket for speeding in 2004. I had no problems to pay, but the small town that has it in his work is cut a trailer for over a year until she moved to an office building. I called a once every two weeks to schedule more than a year when the Clerck, I finally said I had to have been lost. No date or appear for court date on the ticket. I long ago lost my copy, but now five years later, have a collection notice a huge amount. Not on my credit report or driving number license since he took them. They want five times the amount of the ticket now. I think the lost and found it recently. What should I do?

Is the collection notice of a private collection agency or city. If the city is just send a check. We calculated interest and penalties. If it is a private collection agency, they asked to provide proof of the debt, tell them you dispute the amount of debt and want to know exactly how they calculated the amount in question. Tell you also want a statement from them saying the debt amount in question is legally binding. All this must be submitted in writing, by certified mail with acknowledgment of receipt. Even with five times the original amount and agree with you that is the fault of the city. You really have no documentary evidence (after all this time) who diligently tried to contact them, chances are that you must pay in Texas. laws are enforced very strictly and small towns in Texas are notorious when collections is, laws are broken all the time. I had a client once, she attended a school in Texas and bought a car from a woman reported the car there, there was a pink slip and all. She moved to California to be registered the car here and began attending medical school. It turned out, the seller had used the car as collateral for a loan of $ 7,000.00, but the bank had not put a lien on the car, however, when you bought it, despite I had a contract with the seller. A year after he bought the car and my client was a student of the Faculty of Medicine, Dean's office called and said had received a letter from a sheriff, accusing it of fraud against the bank and question his character. She told her story and the Dean asked him to get a lawyer. Called small town bank president and questioned the sheriff's participation in the matter. I than called the sheriff and asked if he was acting as a collection agency on behalf the bank. Obviously, the sheriff got scared and said his involvement in the case was over and agreed to send a letter to the dean to affect what he did. President the bank and my client were actually the victims (the seller was in jail). The case was resolved to my satisfaction, the point is. Want to fight this fact, you could make it difficult for you, those idiots all work together there in small towns in Texas, the Sheriff, the city and everything.