New law on payment of traffic police fines in 2021

Deadlines for repayment of traffic fines according to the law

Having learned about administrative liability, some drivers do not agree with the measures taken against them and appeal the decision. The majority pay off the fine within the time intervals established by Article 32.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses:

• filing an application for an unlawful, from the violator’s point of view, decision – 10 days;
• depositing funds in the amount of the assigned sanction in any way after the end of the appeal period - 60 days.

Thus, the administrative fine must be paid no later than 70 days after receiving the decision to prosecute.

Payment period

The countdown of the time allotted for paying the fine begins on the 11th day after delivery of a written notice to the violator via mail or a photocopy of the decision on traffic violation.

If a violation is recorded by road surveillance cameras performed in automatic mode, the motorist must sign for receipt of the notification, after 11 days, after which the countdown begins, during which the violator must repay the debt.

Important! There is a common misconception among motorists that if the recipient did not accept the notice and did not sign for its receipt, this eliminates the need to pay a fine. In fact, in this case, the resolution is returned to the traffic police video recording service within 1.5 weeks, and the violator is considered notified of the imposition of a penalty. The period provided by law for compensation of the sanction is counted from the date indicated on the stamp of the envelope affixed by the post office on the day the letter was returned to the traffic police.

The idea that after receiving a notice, the driver has a month to pay a fine of the specified amount should be refuted. After receiving a decision on a legal violation, the driver has 10 days, counted from the day after receiving the notice of penalty, to appeal the decision to impose sanctions.

If this does not happen, the sanctions come into force, while the statutory period for payment of the traffic police fine, in accordance with the current regulations of the Code of Administrative Offenses (2018), has been increased by an amendment (dated 05/09/2013) compared to the previously existing standards and amounts to another 60 days (previously 30 days).

Payment options

Law-abiding citizens try to pay off all penalties on time. Payment of an administrative fine on time is carried out in the following ways:

1. Bank cash desk. To repay, you must have identification documents and a decree on the imposition of penalties. Disadvantage: charging a commission for completing a transaction and wasting time.
2. Post office. The difference from the previous option is the size of the commission fee.
3. ATMs and terminals. Information is entered by manual typing; in modern models, the device reads the barcode itself. All that remains is to deposit cash or make a payment by bank card.
4. Traffic police website. In a special section, enter the state number of the car and technical passport. After entering the “captcha” (control word or number), they receive detailed information about violations and penalties. Choose one of several payment options.
5. Public services. Using simple navigation, enter the “Traffic Police Fines” tab, following the prompts, and make payment. Disadvantage: initial registration is required with mandatory identification confirmation.
6. Other online services. Payments through intermediary sites are accompanied by an increase in the amount of expenses for remuneration for their services. Sberbank, RNKB. Yandex-money and other financial organizations make it possible to find out about the collection and pay for it through your “personal account”. You will have to pay a commission, but its amount will be minimal.

It is important to know! Regardless of the chosen repayment option, it is recommended to save a check or receipt, and when using electronic systems, use the function of generating a payment form.

Discounted payment methods for traffic police fines

If you have a violation order in your hands, then you have the opportunity to pay off the traffic police fines with its help without leaving your home. The main thing is to have access to the Internet and accounts (be registered) in one or another online banking account, or on the State Services website or in electronic wallets. You have several ways to pay the traffic police fine with a 50% discount, knowing the order number, or using one or another online service that allows you to view your unpaid fines after authorization.

Pay the traffic police fine with a 50% discount through Sberbank.Online

Not every driver has a lot of time to stand in line at the bank to pay a fine, so today the situation with paying off debts to the state has become much simpler. A fine with a discount can be paid not only at the cash desk of a financial institution that accepts such payments, but also via the Internet. Online, the violator can pay the fine using the official website of the State Traffic Inspectorate, the State Services portal, and so on. If you are a client of Sberbank, then you can use the service of paying traffic police fines online at any time.

We invite you to familiarize yourself with the algorithm for paying traffic fines with a 50 percent discount using Sberbank Online:

1. First you need to log into your Sberbank Online personal account.
2. We get to the main page, where we select.
3. We look for the section “Staff Police, taxes, duties, budget payments” and click on “Traffic Police”.
4. A page will open, and if you have a resolution in your hands, then you need to select “Payment by receipt.” If it is not available, then select “Search for fines”.
5. You will need to enter the decree number in the appropriate line, and as you remember, it can be found at the top of the decree that you received. Now we select the card with which we will pay the fine and click on the “Continue” button.
6. If you have been issued a fine, which you can pay with a 50% discount, then in the payment amount you will see that the payment amount is reflected in half.

Make a payment and print a payment receipt from the “Transaction History” section. This receipt will serve as confirmation that you paid the fine on time. It will be needed if the payment does not reach the traffic police for any reason.

Yandex.Money to pay a fine with a 50% discount

To do this, you need to go to your Yandex Money wallet, find the “Products and . To the right of the field “Traffic police fines: check and payment” you will see a message that the debt can be repaid by decree.

Click on “paper resolution” and enter its number in the special line.

Or you can use the Yandex.Fines application and pay traffic fines within this service using a bank card, for example.

State Services Portal to pay a fine with a 50% discount

If you decide to pay a traffic fine through the State Services portal, then first of all you need to register. If you have done this before and are a user of your personal account, you just need to log in to the portal. You will see the main page where you need to click on “Service Catalog”. There, select “Transport and driving”, then go to “Traffic Police Fines” and click on “Get a service”.

A window will open in front of you where you need to select “By receipt number”. Pick up your resolution and find out its number in the upper left corner - you need to enter it in a special field. Now let's start paying off the debt.

Grace period for payment

The preferential terms for paying a fine are set out in part 1.3 of article 32.2. Code of Administrative Offences, and are presented with the opportunity to pay half the cost of collection within twenty calendar days from the date of the decision. Exceptions to the discount are as follows:

• secondary and subsequent violations;
• failure to register or drive a car without a driver’s license;
• driving while drunk, as well as transferring control to an intoxicated person;
• gross violations of safety rules (driving through a prohibitory traffic light sign, using the oncoming lane, etc., including those recorded by video recording).

The full list of driving violations, where payment in the amount of half the sanction is possible, is reflected in Chapter 12 of the Code of Administrative Offenses.

Features of payment of fines

To the chagrin of motorists, not all offenses are eligible for payment at a discount. For those that must be paid in full, the standard procedure is that payment must be made within 60 days of the judgment.

If payment is unaffordable due to the high cost, which is due to the seriousness of the violation, the law provides for a deferment of payment for a period of no more than one month or an installment plan granted for three months.

By default, no one will provide such preferential conditions to a fined prisoner. To obtain them, you must contact the court and the traffic police department, where the order was issued with an application and a certificate confirming the income of the violator. Based on these documents, the above authorities will decide to provide preferential conditions when paying the fine.

What fines are paid in full?

The following types of offenses can only be paid in full; the discount does not apply to them:

• the vehicle is driven while intoxicated or control is transferred to another person in a similar state;
• all offenses committed repeatedly . Repeated offenses include offenses that occurred within the year following the payment of the previous fine or the end of the period of deprivation of rights. However, to assign the status of a repeat violation, its type may be different from the previous one. The fact itself is recorded, not its variety. Repeated violation implies increased punishment in the form of a larger fine or deprivation of a driver's license. And only for a repeated offense related to driving while intoxicated, criminal liability is already provided;
• violations related to causing harm to the health of the victim , the damage of which can be classified as light or moderate;
• If a decision is made to appeal the decision, then paying half of the traffic police fine may not be possible. This is due to the time spent sending a complaint against the decision, its delivery to the executor at the traffic police, the time it takes to consider the complaint and deliver the response to the addressee. This entire procedure does not fit within the allotted 20 days and in case of an unsatisfactory response you will have to pay the entire cost of the fine;
• unpaid parking. In large cities, there are paid parking areas designed to regulate traffic in the central areas of the city. You can stand in parking lots for free for no more than 15 minutes; beyond this time an administrative offense is issued, the amount of which is individual for each city. The discount does not apply to this violation, since information about penalties for parking is specified only in the regulatory documents of the city that has a parking lot and is not reflected in the new law of the Russian Federation.

Fines for all other offenses may be paid subject to a discount. The full list of articles falling into this category is prescribed in Federal Law No. 437.

Is it possible to pay the fine in installments?

If a citizen is unable to adhere to the deadlines within the time given to pay traffic fines, he has the right to use the norms established in Article 31.5 of the Code of Administrative Offenses:

1. Postpone execution up to one month. The decision is made by the person who imposed the punishment (court, authority, etc.).
2. Request consideration of an installment plan of up to three months, providing evidence of income that does not allow you to make a lump sum payment. Other circumstances may also be considered when making a decision. You can pay off your debt ahead of schedule - you don’t have to wait until the term expires.

It is important to know! For foreigners or stateless persons, deferment (installment plan) is not provided in cases where the court makes a decision to simultaneously expel them from the state. The restriction also applies to the circumstances of offenses accompanying road accidents of vehicles with foreign registration.

Responsibility for delay

In circumstances where the deadline for payment of the traffic police fine has been violated, within the framework of Article 20.25 of the Code, the following enforcement measures are taken:

• recovery of funds twice the amount of the initial sanctions, but not less than a thousand rubles;
• administrative arrest not exceeding a period of 15 days;
• involvement in compulsory community service, up to 50 hours in total.

In case of untimely fulfillment of the obligations imposed by the sanctions, simultaneously with the above incentive measures, the materials are transferred to the bailiff service. They have ample opportunities to collect debts from both legal entities and individuals.

Forced debt collection

The result of malicious violations of the deadlines for paying a traffic fine is the initiation of enforcement proceedings. In addition to collecting the main payment and the requirements of Article 20.23 of the Administrative Code, the violator pays a 7% fee (but not less than 1 thousand rubles). The tools to influence the execution of the decision are presented as follows:

1. Collection of funds from active accounts of the debtor's financial organizations.
2. Claiming part of your salary.
3. Seizure of property, followed by sale at auction.
4. Restriction of travel outside the country.

Advice! Among other things, a ban will be applied on registration actions, for example, with a car. If the debtor decides to sell it and pay off the debt himself, he will not be able to do this.

Limitation period for administrative sanctions

Despite the strictness of the debt collection procedure, the law provides for an amnesty if the deadlines for payment of the traffic police fine were significantly violated - the execution of the decision was not carried out within two years from the date of assignment (Article 31.9 of the Administrative Code). When calculating the time, the period presented for appeal is taken into account - you can not pay the penalty after two years and ten days.

You should not seriously count on successful payment evasion for the following reasons:

• development of technology and equipping police officers with modern means of communication with databases, with the ability to check information online;
• expanded debt collection capabilities and active work of the bailiff service;
• impossibility of registration actions in the presence of outstanding fines.

The statute of limitations can be renewed if the debtor or his property is found even one day before the expiration. Keeping drivers informed about the deadline to pay a traffic fine allows them to avoid tougher sanctions, and if temporary financial difficulties arise, they can resort to installment payments.

What fines can be paid in the amount of half the fine?

Amendments to the current legislation established that when imposing a punishment under Articles 12 of Chapter 12 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, not specified in the section “What fines cannot be paid with a 50% discount ” the fine can be paid in half (see the table below).

The only condition is the deadline for paying the fine (no more than 20 days from the date of drawing up the decision on the case).
If the 20-day deadline is not met, the fine is paid in full (100%). Fines that can be paid with a 50% discount (table)
Article 12.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation

Please note that the period during which you can pay a fine with a discount is 20 calendar days, not from the date of receipt of the decision, but from the date of its issuance. There are often situations when a fine from cameras recording photo-video violations arrives by mail after such a period has expired. In this case, the deadline for paying half of the fine is not restored, and the fine must be paid in full.

Is it possible to return 50% of the fine already paid?

Often the driver did not know that he had the right to pay the fine at a discount, and paid the fine in full. Is it possible in this case to return half of the previously paid fine amount?

The traffic police clarified that paying fines “at a discount” during the grace period is not a mandatory condition, but is an opportunity that the person held accountable may or may not take advantage of.

If a fine that could have been paid in half was paid in full, then in this case the decision is considered to be properly executed and the difference is not returned to the driver.

Prepared by Personal Rights.ru