A driver was slapped with a $263 fine after a no parking sign was put up after she had parked her car.

No one likes getting a parking fine but most motorists will cop it on the chin when they realise they made a mistake.

But how would you feel about being slapped with a fine for disobeying a sign that wasn’t even there when you parked?

That is exactly what happened to Gemma Scheetz when she parked her car on a street in Rozelle in Sydney only to return to find a no-stopping sign installed in the short time she left it there.

“So I parked my car here and a few days later I came back to get my car to notice that there was a new sign put up and I’d been given a parking ticket for parking in a no-stopping zone,” Ms Scheetz told A Current Affair.

“Someone must’ve put it here while my car was parked here.”

She received two fines during the few days her car was parked on the street.

On March 13 she received a $337 fine for parking within 10m of an intersection.

The ranger who issued the fine took a photo of her car as proof of her mistake which, funnily enough, was how Ms Scheetz could prove the no-stopping sign was not installed at the time.

Three days later she was issued a second fine for $263 for disobeying the no-stopping sign. Another picture was taken showing the sign had been installed right behind her car.

Ms Scheetz has no issue paying the first fine as she knows she was in the wrong but she has tried to fight the second infringement.

“I requested a review of the fine and they (the council) came back that there’s no grace period when a new sign is installed, even though my car was there before the sign was,” she said.

Inner West Council reportedly told A Current Affair residents were notified about the installation of the sign and Ms Scheetz had left her car parked illegally for three days.

If the issue isn’t resolved, Ms Scheetz told the program she would take the council to court over the fine.

“What was legal on the Monday can’t become illegal on the Tuesday,” she said.