Posted on 11/26/2012 3:14:05 PM PST by DogByte6RER
I'd be very careful, CT DMV can still gig you, as will other states with the same DMV compacts. (I know, because PA has them with most.)
We should do this to every liberal in office.
i got a failure to appear with a bench warrant on me in Arkansas due to an aerial speeding ticket from a rental car i was driving. I never received the summons and didnt find out about it until I applied for a job that required a background check. For some reason i didnt get that job, best to take care of things before they avalanche
I know CT is pretty harsh on tickets/violations.
On parking tickets for myself and family, my brother had a load of parking tickets in Chicago and suburb towns when he lived there in the late 1980’s. I don’t know if they caught up to him or not. He moved to IL in 1987 and moved back to IN in 1990. When he moved back to IN, he started to get nasty letters on them and he switched his paperwork back to Indiana. I had a few parking tickets in Indianapolis (three, one which they mistyped the license plate characters), one in CA, one in NM and one in Athens, OH. The one in Athens, they put my state as Michigan instead of Colorado.
On the compacts, there are three compacts
-NRVC - Non-Resident Violator’s Compact which applies to a driver not complying with a traffic citation in a different state. However, it doesn’t apply to parking, registration and weight violations. All states are members except for CA, OR, MT, AK, WI, MI. Paying off the violation is considered compliance.
- DLC - Driver License Compact where violations by non-residents are reported to the their home state for action such as points or suspension. All states are members except for GA, TN, MI, WI. On the non-DLC states, most will still penalize for out of state offenses. A few states don’t penalize for minor violations. States of NM, CO and PA has no points, no record for minor violations but penalize for majors like DUI. NY is the same as for CO and PA but does penalize for violations from Ontario and Quebec. States of WI, NV and MD has no points for out of state violations but will post the violation for your insurance company to see.
- DLA - Driver License Agreement which is suppose to replace the DLC and NRVC and is much more stricter and draconian. As a start, states of the US and Mexico can join as well as the Canadian provinces and may eventually include overseas like the EU. It requires ALL violations to be posted to your record with points and this includes non-moving violations. Even ignoring an out of state parking ticket can get your license pulled. Only the states of CT, AR and MA are members at this time.
Personally on tickets, I do a lot of out of state travel and here are my rules. Being a Colorado licensed driver, for inside of Colorado, if the ticket accrues points, I fight it/plea bargain, for no points tickets, I pay it since no-points violations are not posted to the driving record. Parking tickets I pay as well. Outside of Colorado, parking tickets are ignored unless in a rental car. Traffic tickets like for speeding, if there is an offer made to plea it down, I take it, otherwise I just pay it.
Lastly I also check if the other state would assess points on a non-resident driving privilege. Some states if you are driving in that state, get a ticket there and pay it, that state may assess points against your driving privilege. You are given like a “ghost” driver license for that state like their driver license number, etc. A few years back, I had problems with Missouri. Got a few tickets and had points there even though I was clean in Colorado. If I got suspended in MO, I would have gotten suspended in CO until I got reinstated in MO. Off the top of my head, some states will do points on non-resident drivers who get tickets in the given state. Besides MO, also CO, OH, PA(?), CA, NY, NH, VT, MI will give points to out of state drivers. Also NY and MI has penalty fees (Driver Responsibility Fee) if you have too many points and they will expect you to pay the fee even if you have an out of state license or they suspend your privilege to drive in that state.
One thing to consider is some places now are sending parking violations to collections especially on out of state drivers since the compact don’t apply to them.
Also rules are different for CDL drivers. All violations including non-moving violations are suppose to show on your record.
Want to add, some states will penalize on violations in Canada and some will penalize for DUI’s in a foreign country. See http://www.suspendedlicensehelp.com/blog/post/Mass-RMV-Suspends-for-German-OUI.aspx
Obama’s car?
Ping to Celerity and All to review your comments at #24 & #25.
Cheers!
Concerning Driver License Agreement (DLA), IMHO, it really sucks. I don’t know if the American Assoc. of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA) are pushing it hard today but is was pushed hard like 10 years ago. What I didn’t mention is the DLA states have to share their driver license system with all of North America including non-DLA states. Sharing it with like Mexico is a goldmine for identity theft. Congressman Sensenbrenner was very in much in favor of mandating the DLA on all states.
The DLA even requires compliance to the letter of an out of state court order no matter how ridiculous it is. An example is you drive your New Mexico tagged vehicle with very dark window tint which is legal in NM in Virginia. You get stopped and ticketed for tint in VA, if the court orders removal of the tint, you have to comply under the DLA or have your license pulled. Right now under the NRVC, you just pay your fine and then you will be in compliance.
Also for a state to be a member of the DLA, no deviations are allowed on how drivers are punished for out of state offenses unless given special permission from the DLA board and that permission has to be reapplied for every 5 years. This prevents states from enacting protections for their drivers like no points for out of state violations. This is aimed at a few states like CO, NY, PA, NM to start with. Also, if there is a conflict between the DLA and a state law, the DLA takes precedence or overrides the state’s law.
Congressman Ron Paul remarked the DLA is very much an invasion of privacy especailly sharing personal information with foreign countries.
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