Special Tickets

Bill Bess · #1 (**permalink**) 05-30-2011, 07:10 AM

The other day my friend and I were returning from a club picnic, both of us in our respective cobras. My friend punched it from the signal and immediately got pulled over by a local (Lake Havasu City) motor cop. The cop said he was doing 78 mph in a 45 mph zone . The cop then asked my friend if he wanted a local Environmental ticket, or a State of AZ ticket. He further explained the Enviromental ticket was, a city ticket issued for wasting fuel and would not go on his driving record as a moving violation, costing about $65.00, and no points etc.
The state ticket would cost him plenty, points, driving school and so on....guess which ticket my friend got.

Question, are there other cities that are generating revenues by doing their own thing legally?
Bill

Karl Bebout · #2 (**permalink**) 05-30-2011, 09:53 AM

Hey Bill, I was the lucky recipient of a "wasting fuel" ticket about three years ago coming out of Globe. Didn't know what the DPS officer was talking about but was very happy to learn of the no points, no record thingy and it was only a $38 fine, paid to Globe. I later learned that AZ enacted the violation back in the 70s when the feds required 55 MPH speed limits.

DanMartin · #3 (**permalink**) 05-30-2011, 10:45 AM

I never understood the whole wasting fuel thing...I mean...it's *my* fuel...I OWN IT.
*shakes head*

Still, give the guy his $65 and be on your way. I believe Car and Driver once called speeding tickets just a "Tax on getting there", which is mostly true anymore....

FWB · #4 (**permalink**) 05-30-2011, 08:13 PM

so if lights on a highway aren't sync'ed and you have to stop at every damn one...then thats ok, but waste your own fuel and thats an offense......can anyone say 1984

Ron61 · #5 (**permalink**) 05-31-2011, 07:01 AM

Is Arizona the only state that has this option? I have never heard of it around here. They want the huge fines that go with speeding tickets.

Ron

markhh1 · #6 (**permalink**) 05-31-2011, 08:46 AM

I have heard this happening in Minnesnowta. It was explained to me that when a County/City officer writes a State ticket, the city that the ticket is written in only receives a small percentage of the fine, with most of the $ going to the State. However, when a City ticket is written, the majority of the $ goes into the city coffers.

State Patrol Officers can only write State tickets.

Joe Wicked · #7 (**permalink**) 05-31-2011, 08:54 AM

I heard about it in Minnesota as well, but never around here. There are ways of keeping it off your driving record here, but not a special ticket. Even city tickets go to your driving record. Here you can do Deferred Adjudication 1 time per year where you pay the ticket and if you don't get another in 3-6 months (depends on the city), it goes away. There is also defensive driving.

Bill Bess · #8 (**permalink**) 06-03-2011, 06:58 AM

How bout the "pay as you go plan", as in Mexico. I was working in Mexico for 3 months and got stopped everyday by a cop or the Federales, never got a ticket but paid them $10 to $20 bucks (American) cash each time. I was in a commercial studio truck and we carried a lot of cash. We reported the fines as "payment for a safe trip in Mexico", I paid over $500.00. Hope this system doesn't get started here.

Bill

Ron61 · #9 (**permalink**) 06-03-2011, 08:42 AM

Bill,

Now I think I understand why I saw those commercials on TV some time back urging people to vacation in Mexico. That could get expensive if you traveled a long ways and they did that every few miles.

Ron

deckofficer · #10 (**permalink**) 06-03-2011, 11:36 AM

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Originally Posted by Bill Bess

How bout the "pay as you go plan", as in Mexico. I was working in Mexico for 3 months and got stopped everyday by a cop or the Federales, never got a ticket but paid them $10 to $20 bucks (American) cash each time. I was in a commercial studio truck and we carried a lot of cash. We reported the fines as "payment for a safe trip in Mexico", I paid over $500.00. Hope this system doesn't get started here.

Bill

In a low key fashion, it has been here for quite awhile. On a toll route out of Chicago I was legal weight for all states but that one and Missouri (80,000 for all the others, 72,500 for those two states). You would pay to take the toll roads because there were no scales, but cops that wanted to enhance their income would set up portable scales. You never want to offer a bribe, but if the cop you are dealing with is sporting a Rolex watch, then something like "Can I pay the fine here?" works just fine. This happened in the early 80's.