Title III: Judging of contraventions

The amount of the fine may be paid immediately into the hands of the ticketing officer in accordance with the procedures specified by order of the Minister for the Budget, the Minister for Justice and the Minister for the Interior: Either when the ticketing officer is in possession of a book of counterfoil receipts. 1° Or when the official is in possession of a book of counterfoil receipts; payment will…

Payment of the fixed fine due for tickets issued using the form described in article A. 37-1 and not immediately paid to the ticketing officer is made by sending either to the service indicated on the payment card attached to the notice of offence, or to the accounting officer of the Directorate General of Public Finances, a duly completed payment card to which a fine stamp is affixed, the issue,…

Payment of the fixed fine or the increased fixed fine may also be made within fifteen days by automated remote payment or by dematerialised stamp, at the end of the periods provided for in the articles 529-1,529-8,529-9 and 530.

The request submitted pursuant to article 529-2 shall state the reasons on which it is based and shall be accompanied by the notice of contravention.

The automatic increase in fixed fines provided for in the second paragraph of Article 529-2 and the second paragraph of Article 529-5 is recorded by the officer of the public prosecutor’s office, who mentions it on the enforcement order provided for in the first paragraph of Article 530. The enforcement order shall mention in an appendix, for each fine, the identity and address of the offender, the place and date…

The accounting officer of the Directorate General of Public Finances sends the offender an extract from the enforcement order concerning him/her in the form of a notice inviting him/her to pay the amount of the increased fixed fine. This notice contains, for each fine, the information provided for in the second paragraph of article R. 49-5 and indicates the time limit and procedures for the claim provided for in the…

When the notice of increased fixed fine sent by registered letter to the address appearing on the vehicle registration certificate, in accordance with the provisions of the second paragraph of article 530, is returned with the mention “no longer lives at the address indicated” or “left without leaving an address”, the accounting officer of the Directorate General of Public Finances sends the offender a reminder letter if he discovers his…

The amount of the reduced fixed fine provided for in article 529-2-1 is set at 150 euros for fifth-class offences.

The amount of the increased fixed fine is set as follows: 1° 7 euros for contraventions of the provisions of the Highway Code committed by pedestrians; 2° 33 euros for other contraventions of the first class; 3° 75 euros for contraventions of the second class; 4° 180 euros for contraventions of the third class; 5° 375 euros for contraventions of the fourth class; 6° 450 € for contraventions of the…

The officer of the public prosecutor’s office to whom an admissible claim is referred shall inform the accounting officer of the Directorate General of Public Finance without delay of the cancellation of the enforcement order in respect of the contested fine.