Doug Gallup will get his day in court, but not before a new slate of councillors has been inducted into city hall.

The former city councillor appeared briefly in court Tuesday over a parking ticket he says is discriminatory, but the matter was moved to mid-November, a situation Gallup isn't pleased with.

Gallup is disputing the City of Whitehorse's right to post tourist-parking-only restrictions along First Avenue in the summer months.

The issue arose when he was given a ticket for parking in front of the MacBride Museum last month - while he was inside with a couple visiting from Alberta.

Gallup was driving the visitors around town so they wouldn't have to manoeuvre their RV through downtown traffic, and parked directly in front of the museum.

He saw the tourists-only sign and thought nothing of it; not only were there out-of-towners in his car, but he was enjoying a day of hometown tourism himself.

But, as Mayor Bev Buckway pointed out in an interview last month, bylaw officers can't differentiate between residents taking advantage of free parking while they are at work and Yukoners visiting Whitehorse

attractions, so Gallup got a ticket.

When he called city hall to ask that his ticket be cancelled, Gallup was told he would have to bring his guests in to show their ID and prove they were visiting.

"Not in my lifetime would I ever go that low to take my tourists to city hall to prove that they were from out of the territory," Gallup told the Star at the time.

Instead, Gallup said he is going to prove the city has no right to enforce such a restriction.

"When the judge defines the word 'tourist', I rest my case," he said.

There is no definition of tourist in the city bylaws.

Gallup said he is disappointed by the November court date, which will come a month after territory-wide civic elections.

"I would have liked to have got this over with before the election," he said after court Tuesday. "Who knows? I might decide I want to run and I don't want this hanging over my head."

Gallup was a city councillor in the 1980s.

Having an outstanding ticket doesn't prevent anyone from running for council, provided the fine isn't more than $500, according to the Municipal Act.

Still, Gallup feels the current council should take responsibility for the what he calls "a tourist trap for Yukoners."

He also wanted a judge to rule on the fairness of the parking restriction before the summer is out.

"Until my court date, the city can keep ticketing people," he said. "They can keep on discriminating against Yukoners."

But that won't stop him from parking in the tourist-only zone. He has two guests coming in from out of town and he already has plans to take them to the MacBride Museum.

"I'm going to park right in front of the museum," he promised, "and we'll be easy to track down because we'll all be inside as paying customers, wearing T-shirts that say 'MacBride Museum.'"

Candidate nominations can be made at city hall until Sept. 24. Elections will be held in Whitehorse and in all Yukon communities on Oct. 15.