Section 1: Provisions applicable to certain contraventions

For the contraventions listed by decree in the Council of State, public action is extinguished by the payment of a fixed fine, which is exclusive of the application of the rules on repeat offences. However, the fixed fine procedure is not applicable if several offences, at least one of which cannot give rise to a fixed fine, have been recorded simultaneously or when the law provides that a repeat offence…

The amount of the fixed fine may be paid either to the ticketing officer at the time the offence is recorded or to the service indicated in the notice of offence within forty-five days of the offence being recorded or, if the notice is subsequently sent to the person concerned, within forty-five days of it being sent.

Within the time limit stipulated in the previous article, the offender must pay the amount of the fixed fine, unless, within the same time limit, he submits a request for exemption to the service indicated in the notice of offence. In the cases provided for by article 529-10, this request must be accompanied by one of the documents required by this article. This request is forwarded to the public prosecutor….

In the case of a fifth-class offence or where the regulations so provide, the fixed fine is reduced if the offender pays the amount of the reduced fixed fine either to the ticketing officer when the offence is recorded or within fifteen days of the offence being recorded or, if the notice of offence is subsequently sent to the person concerned, within fifteen days of it being sent. In the…