the body of motor vehicle code is built upon the operation on a public highway being a privilege.
way back when...when the states were first trying to regulate driving the laws kept getting shot down by the supreme court on the grounds driving is a right and there's another supreme court decision that it's unlawful to outlaw a right for the ourpose of regulating it as a privilege.
The compromise they found was that while it remains a right to own and operate a vehicle it was deemed to be a privilege to do so on a public highway.
So you need a license and registration and have to signal your turns and can't drive drunk...on public property... or on a public right-of-way on private property.
If the property owner has an agreement with the police department to police their property then it is considered a public right of way.
If this agreement is in place then you can be ticketed for disobeying the property owner's traffic controls and be arrested for drunken driving on this private property.
The police not investigating an accident on private property wit an agreement to patrol in place would constitute a double standard.
But I don't know where this would necessarily be a motor vehicle code issue if you requested an investigation of property damage which is a criminal offense not related to motor vehicle code.
I would be a motor vehicle code issue if it involved motor vehicle code but that might not be exclusively so
the key might be in the words you use to describe the event you want investigated?
I called the cops on a trucker who hit my semi then backed in somewhere else like it didn't happen. I called the sheriff out to report property damage and hit and run instead of just a fender bender.
I had a buddy was visiting a friend at his apartment, had his keys in the bronco with the radio on it was backed in a stall at the apartment (radio was quiet) and was sitting on his friends patio drinking beer when the police came by and arrested him for operating under the influence.
The police were not called for the music there was a fight earlier in another part of the complex they had responded to.
In the trial it came out he was found guilty by the jury because it was considered a public right of way because the property owner had an agreement with the municipality to patrol the property.
so in that case I would use Jason’s DWI as precedence to sue the police for refusing to respond to an accident if I wanted to play patriot games
