mpgandco

I thought I would share this with you guys.Looks like I will have to install a front license plate.
State of California is broke and they are trying hard to squeeze all of us hard to collect money!!!!!

Effective immediately, if you do not stop at the red light, be ready to pay $436 in fines or if you pass a school bus with flashing red signals, you will be charged $616. The state of California is going for blood, so be extra careful in driving, you cannot afford messing with them. I have been hearing that Highway Patrols are under pressure to issue a lot more tickets than last year with at least 30% increase in fines over 2009, so beware of radar guns, highway and traffic cameras installed everywhere and the tougher enforcement of parking rules.


Just for your info, the next time you park in the handicapped zone, even for a minute, you will be looking at almost $ 1000 in parking tickets , so it'd better be worth it.

California needs money, so pay close attention to the rules of the road!

Traffic Ticket Fines (Effective 01/06/2011)

VC 12814.6 $214 Failure to obey license provisions.

VC 14600(A) $214 Failure to notify DMV of address change within 10 days (Note: The fine may be reduced with valid proof of correction.


VC 16028(A) $796 Failure to provide evidence of financial responsibility (insurance) Note: This fine may be reduced with proof of insurance on or after the violation date.


VC 21453(A) $436 Failure to stop at a red signal.


VC 22349 $214 Unsafe speed, 1 to 15 miles over the limit.

VC 22350 $328 Unsafe speed, 16 to 25 miles over the limit.

VC 22450 $214 Failure to stop at a stop sign.

VC 22454(A) $616 Passing a school bus with flashing red signals.

VC 23123(A) $148 Driving while using a wireless phone not hands free, first offense .

VC 23123(B) $256 Driving while using a wireless phone not hands free, each subsequent offense.

VC 23123.5 $148 Driving while using a wireless device to send, read or write text.

VC 23124 $148 Minor driving while using a wireless phone.

VC 22500 $976 Parking in a bus loading area.

VC 22507(A) $976 Violation of disabled parking provisions, first offense.

VC 22507(B) $1876 Violation of disabled parking provisions, second offense.

VC 26708 $178 Unlawful material on vehicle windows. (Presumably political stuff!)

VC 27150 $178 Adequate muffler required. (Exhaust silencer! Boy racers?)

VC 27315 $148 Mandatory use of seat belts.

VC 27360 $436 Mandatory use of passenger child restraints. Note: This fine may be reduced by completing a court authorized child seat diversion program.

VC 27400 $178 Headsets or Earplugs covering both ears. (Seen that in UK!)

VC 27803 $178 Violation of motorcycle safety helmet requirements.

VC 34506 $616 Commercial Driver - Log book violation.

VC 4000 $256 No evidence of current registration. Note: The fine may be reduced with valid proof of correction.


VC 4159 $178 Notify DMV of change of address within 10 days. Note: The fine may be reduced with valid proof of correction.

VC 5200 $178 Proper display of license plates. Note: The fine may be reduced with valid proof of correction.

VC 9400 $178 Commercial weight fees due.

Turbodan

what is minor driving while using a cell phone? a young underaged driver drving while using a cell phone? this is the only one that should be higher.
and I thought our traffic enforcement was out of hand up here.
what is the fine for no front plate?

roarke01

Just another thing to add to the list of reasons not to move to California...............

ronnie993tt

+1 Nevada.

No HTwo O

Almost to the very bottom of Mpgandco's post. I'd still rather pay a $178 fine than drill holes in my front bumpers.

ca993twin

I recently got a ticket for my window tint on the door glass. After I paid to have it removed, got a cop to sign off my ticket, paid the $25 fine, I got a note from the superior court that I could have kept the tint and paid a $199 fine instead.

I also have no front plate, but I have a rather large grill opening on my Ruf CTR-2 front bumper. I'm thinking of folding the top and bottom edges of my plate (you would still see the numbers and the "California" at the top) and tying the plate to the mesh inside the grill. Is this legal? Gads... I hate front plates on our cars.

jtpsocal

Solution? Fight EVERY ticket. I think I'm 8 for 10 in the last few years. Three Porsches since 2003 and zero points on the record

azmurciev12

i just got a ticket for failure to stop at a red light because i turned right on yellow (after watching the video it had turned red already) and the camera got me. it's legal to turn even on Red so what's the problem. i'm going to try to fight it. the fine is $480 which i think is crazy. there is no sign "no turn on red". oh well.

curve lover

Steve-- Frustrating, but more frustrating would be the next officer who tickets you for tinted window ... again. $199 fine prevent that?
Kudos to RLer Mike J for the inspiration in mounting my vanity plate.
His Targa:

curve lover

Steve-- Some jurisdictions stipulate that the plate be tangential to the ground (YMMV).

From the 993 Forum's "Post your Porsche Vanity Plates" thread:

IIRC ^^ Graham eventually re-installed his at an angle.

Hwyranger

AZMURCIEV12,
Yes, you can turn right on red on most intersections, however, you have to satisfy the "red light's" legal requirement of stopping at the limit line prior to conducting your right turn...if you don't stop first and then proceed, you'll trigger the camera every time....

curve lover

In parts of Philadelphia, saving the spot you shoveled = $300 fine.
Putting snow back where you found it = $300 fine.

"township bans saving shoveled-out parking spot"

curve lover

Jon-- Sounds smart. What costs / time have you invested?

This is one that may have been worth fighting; it couldn't have ended much worse...

From the New York Times' "China Sentences Toll Dodger To Life In Prison:"

curve lover

Danny-- Regardless of age, this one shouldn't be allowed in a car with a phone

doscazadores

There is a specific Veh. Code in CA that requires a car's owner to seek a replacement for a mutilated plate. Other Veh. Code sections speak of altered plates. There are virtually no cases reported for these sections relative to license plates that would help us understand how a police officer would "look" at your plate. But in general it appears that what underlies these statutes is to prevent and punish fraud (the reported decisions usually discuss altered driver's licenses or registration documents done for fraudulent purposes, so I think the conjecture is pretty close) or to ensure that the plate is legible for identification purposes. It makes sense. The worse that would probably happen is to get stopped and told the plate needs to be replaced, with a citation given to help you to remember to do it. That's correctable and would very likely be dismissed upon payment of a $25.00 correction fee to the court.