The provisions of articles 707-2 and 707-3 relating to the reduction in the amount of fines and fixed procedural fees in the event of voluntary payment within one month are applicable : 1° To fines handed down by the police court, the juvenile court, the criminal court or the court of appeal, as well as by any other criminal court against a person found guilty of a contravention or an…
Where the conviction is the result of a contradictory decision to be served or a decision by default, the one-month period provided for in Article 707-2 shortens from the date of service. The notice provided for in Article 707-3 shall appear in the judgment or be attached to the document of service.
When the conviction results from a criminal order, the one-month period provided for in Article 707-2 runs from the sending of the registered letter provided for in Articles 495-3 and 527 or notification by the public prosecutor or his delegate as provided for in article 495-3. In the case provided for by the penultimate paragraph of articles 495-3 and 527, it runs from the date on which the person became…
In the event of conviction to a fine, the reduction provided for by Article 707-2 only applies in the event of simultaneous payment, within one month, of the fine, the fixed procedural fee provided for by the provisions of article 1018 A of the General Tax Code and, where applicable, the increase in the fine provided for by the articles L. 211-27 and L. 421-8 of the Insurance Code in…
In the event of an adversarial decision handed down in the presence of the convicted person or his representative, the latter will be given, at the end of the hearing, if he so requests, a statement of criminal conviction enabling him to voluntarily pay the fixed procedural fees and, if applicable, the fine within one month to the accounting officer of the Directorate General of Public Finances. The convicted offender…
In the case provided for in the first paragraph of Article R. 55-4, the chief clerk shall send a copy of each criminal conviction statement to the accounting officer of the Directorate General of Public Finances no later than the second working day following the pronouncement of the decision. In other cases, this statement is sent to the accountant of the Directorate-General of Public Finance at the same time as…
If an appeal is lodged against the decision giving rise to the dispatch of the statement of conviction in accordance with the provisions of Article R. 55-5, the chief clerk shall give notice thereof to the accounting officer of the Directorate General of Public Finance and of the cancellation of the corresponding statement. This notice is given no later than the second working day following the registration of the appeal.
If, following the exercise of a right of appeal, the person who has voluntarily paid the fine applies for restitution of the sums paid in accordance with the provisions of the third paragraph of article 707-2, this application must be lodged with the accounting officer of the Directorate General of Public Finances responsible for recovering the fine.
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