Hollywood resident Peter Cicale says he was heading to the beach in January 2024 when he parked in an open parking space in a nearby lot.

He didn’t expect to open the mailbox at his home four days later to find a “parking charge notice” from a company called Professional Parking Management Corp. stating that he owed $90 for failing to pay. The document included photos of his license tag and an offer to reduce the charge to $55, plus tax, if he paid within 15 days.

And while the invoice looked like a parking ticket, it did not say that failure to pay would jeopardize Cicale’s license or registration status or ding his credit score.

“There was no signage or attendant,” Cicale recently told the South Florida Sun Sentinel about his decision to use the parking lot at 915 N. Ocean Drive . “

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