SB1242 - 472R - House Bill Summary

House of Representatives

SB 1242

traffic ticket enforcement assistance program

Sponsors: Senators Huppenthal, Gray L, Representative Konopnicki et al

X	Committee on Transportation
	Caucus and COW
	As Engrossed and As Passed the House

SB 1242 expands the Traffic Ticket Enforcement Assistance Program (TTEAP) to include boating violations, defines monetary obligations and restitution, and reduces the delinquent monetary obligation threshold for refusing registration renewal from $200 to $100.

History

Arizona Revised Statutes (A.R.S.) Title 28, Chapter 5, Article 5 establishes the Traffic Ticket Enforcement Assistance Program. TTEAP authorizes the Arizona Department of Transportation (ADOT) to establish procedures for the collection of delinquent fines and penalties imposed for civil and criminal traffic violations, including all surcharges. In addition, TTEAP assists in the enforcement of criminal traffic failure to appear offenses.

A.R.S. § 28-1632 requires ADOT to refuse to renew a person’s vehicle registration if the registered owner of a vehicle is delinquent in paying a fine or penalty for a civil or criminal traffic violation and the combined amount of the delinquency exceeds $200 or the registered owner fails to appear in a criminal traffic case, or both.

Before refusing the registration renewal, the court or political subdivision must make at least two attempts to collect the monies owed by an individual or organization. ADOT may charge a court or political subdivision that chooses to participate in the program a fee that is payable to ADOT to cover the costs of notifying the registered owner that the owner’s vehicle registration will not be renewed. All fees collected by ADOT are deposited in the State Highway Fund.

Provisions

· Adds the following definitions, unless otherwise required by context:

· Defines monetary obligations as fines, fees, penalties, court costs, surcharges, restitution, assessments and penalty enhancements.

· Defines restitution as restitution ordered by the court when only one defendant is convicted.

· Changes references in A.R.S. Title 28, Chapter 5, Article 5 from fines and penalties to monetary obligations.

· Adds boating violations to TTEAP.

· Reduces the amount of delinquent monetary obligations required for ADOT to refuse vehicle registration renewal from $200 to $100.

· Makes technical and conforming changes.

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· Forty-seventh Legislature