If you are elligible for traffic school, you may get your penalty reduced and just have to pay a court fee and traffic school fee. Learn more here. The Superior Court Traffic Services allows you to pay for a traffic ticket, request traffic school, request a day extension from the court appearance date on the ticket or a day extension to complete traffic school, request a court date, check on the status of a traffic ticket by the citation number or by a California driver's license number, or request a Trial by Written Declaration.
Generally, you are eligible to attend a traffic school and have the citation masked from your record upon completion of the class if you have not attended traffic school in the state of California in the past 18 months.
Your courtesy notice will indicate whether or not you are eligible for the traffic school program. A summons is an order to appear and your signature is a "promise to appear.
California Vehicle Code section b states: Whenever any person is arrested for any violation of this code, not declared to be a felony, the arrested person shall be taken without unnecessary delay before a magistrate within the county in which the offense charged is alleged to have been committed and who has jurisdiction of the offense and is nearest or most accessible with reference to the place where the arrest is made. It would depend on how many points were assessed for the particular violation.
In the state of California, you are eligible to attend traffic school once every 18 months for a vehicle violation of one point. The DMV will check when it is time to renew the registration on your vehicle to see if there are any outstanding issues.
If a failure to pay or a failure to appear is found, the DMV can refuse to renew your vehicle registration. Those who do not pay the traffic fine within the authorized time period may have their driver's license suspended and usually will not be able to renew their vehicle registration until they have paid all outstanding parking tickets and administrative fees in full.
Guilty: You admit to the violation s. You may still explain the circumstances to the judicial officer. Your appearance is necessary and will result in a conviction once you enter your plea. Not Guilty: You deny the violation s and want to appear with the citing officer present. No Contest: You neither admit nor deny the violation s. This plea is treated the same as a guilty plea.
If you receive another infraction within 18 months from your last traffic school attendance, you will not be automatically eligible to attend. However, if the court is not aware of this previous attendance, it will usually assign you to traffic school again. The court gets to keep this fee and this fee can only be legally collected if you are assigned to traffic school.
If the court denies you the favor of a second traffic school, you can respond by exercising your legal right to contest your citation; this will cost the court money. This adds up to several hundred dollars per case. This is why most courts have no problem reassigning repeat offenders to traffic school. I know scores of students who have attended traffic school three to four times in a single year. One former traffic school student of mine attended class 11 times in two years.
Due to her attendance, not a single conviction had been recorded on her DMV record. Though your insurance company will know you were cited and attended traffic school, they can not legally raise your rates.
Insurance rates can only be increased if a guilty conviction or at-fault accident is recorded on your public record. A dismissal, whether recorded publicly or confidentially, can never be used to increase your rates. These online and homestudy traffic schools are not licensed by the DMV but by the individual county courts. Be aware that some courts do not accept any online schools.
Before taking an online school, make sure it is accepted in the court that has jurisdiction over your case. Completion certificates from all DMV licensed traffic schools are accepted in all traffic courts in California since these schools are licensed by both the DMV and the individual courts.
All California traffic courts will accept a certificate from a DMV licensed traffic school. Since DMV traffic schools are state licensed, many other states will also accept a California DMV completion certificate for a citation in their state.
Online traffic schools are now accepted in most California traffic courts and are becoming increasingly popular.
They can be convenient for people who are strapped for time, agoraphobic, or who like to learn about traffic safety in their underwear while consuming a pound cake. Online schools are also great for those too busy to attend a traditional traffic school and have fifty bucks that says their computer nerd buddy can do it for them between porn downloads this is, of course, illegal and not recommended;a cited motorist must complete his own class.
Click on a topic to learn about traffic school: Who is eligible? Who is not eligible? What are the advantages of attending school? How do I register for traffic school? Where is the school? Online traffic school What does it cost? How long do I have to complete traffic school? How do I tell the Court that I have finished traffic school?
Who is not eligible: You cannot go to school for any: Equipment or non-moving violation Misdemeanor Violation that has a mandatory Court appearance Alcohol related violation If you hold a commercial driver's license and were driving a commercial vehicle For more information regarding eligibility, see California Rule of Court 4. If you are eligible for traffic school, hold a non-commercial driver's license and successfully complete traffic school, the Court will notify DMV of a conviction that will be kept confidential.
It will not show on your public record, nor will the point be assessed to your DMV record. If you hold a commercial driver's license and you were not driving a commercial vehicle, the record of conviction will not be held confidential but the conviction will not add a point count to your DMV record. Proceed from there according to the instructions on the site.
There is a fee that the school charges, which is separate from what you pay to the Court for traffic school.
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