The cops appear to have won their battle with parking enforcement officers.

And parking enforcement officers are paying the price.

Even though Buffalo’s corporation counsel’s office ruled that parking enforcement officers are exempt from the state’s seat belt law, Officer Kimberly A. Bobo was found guilty and fined a total of $130 for not wearing a seat belt while she was out looking to issue parking tickets.

In a gesture of solidarity, all 15 parking enforcement officers are contributing to cover the cost of the fine, $50, and the court surcharge, $80.

“The enforcement officers, along with myself, are chipping in,” Leonard G. Sciolino, director of the city’s Division of Parking Enforcement, said Tuesday. “We feel we should all bear the burden. These poor enforcement officers make about $28,000 a year and are out there doing their job.”

To avoid future conflicts between city police officers on patrol and parking enforcement officers, Sciolino said, he has ordered his workers to wear their seat belts while they are driving city vehicles.

As a result, the dust-up may be at an end.

“I’m hoping this is going to end what they call a war,” Sciolino said.

But will it? The conflict started when the enforcement officers ticketed the private vehicles of police officers who park in restricted zones in the vicinity of Police Headquarters at Franklin and Church streets downtown, and those illegally parked vehicles remain fair game for parking enforcement officers.

“Anybody who parks illegally in a private vehicle by a parking meter will be issued a violation,” Sciolino said. “We’re not picking on anybody.”

Cops apparently aren’t the only public employees ticked off at parking enforcement officers. A recent complaint from a worker at Lafayette High School said school employees were being unfairly ticketed because of the limited number of off-street parking spaces at the West Side school.

“We give them some leeway as far as parking between the sidewalk and curb, but what has to happen is a change in parking regulations around schools to accommodate parking for staff and students,” Sciolino said.

Staff members need to pay attention to the parking signs, said Elena Cala, school district spokeswoman.

“It’s an older urban neighborhood school, and it takes up the whole block. It’s a matter of reading the parking signs,” Cala said. “There’s alternate street parking.”

As for the parking enforcement officers, all was not lost. At another recent Traffic Court proceeding, Officer Daniel D. Tadusz managed to beat the rap of wearing no seat belt because of misinformation on the police officer’s ticket, Sciolino said.

Buffalo police spokesman Michael J. DeGeorge declined to comment.