The opposition lodged against a judgment by default shall render null and void the warrant of committal with deferred effect, including if that warrant is subject to provisional execution, as well as the order for the execution of that warrant which may have been issued by the public prosecutor pursuant to Article D. 48-2-5.
When the public prosecutor’s delegate notifies a misdemeanour criminal order in application of the second paragraph of article 495-3, he may receive payment of the criminal fines pronounced using an electronic payment terminal. The same applies when he notifies a contraventional criminal order pursuant to the second paragraph of article 527.
Where the public prosecutor decides, of his or her own motion or at the request of the accused, to use the procedure of appearance on prior recognition of guilt pursuant to Article 495-15, it shall inform the president of the criminal court before which the case had been heard. This decision may not be taken less than one month before the date scheduled for the hearing, unless the president of…
When the request from the accused provided for in article 495-15 requesting the application of the procedure for appearing in court on prior recognition of guilt is sent to the public prosecutor more than three months before the date of the hearing set before the criminal court, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, by a secure means of telecommunication in accordance with 21° of Article D. 591 or by…
The fixed fine procedure is applicable to offences for which the law so provides, when these offences are recorded by an electronic report drawn up using a secure device allowing the use of a signature in digital form in accordance with Article 801-1.
Following the discovery of the offence, a notice of offence, a payment notice and a request for exoneration form, are sent to the person’s home address by simple letter. When the offence is detected, the person is informed that they will receive a fixed fine notice at the address they have declared. This notice is mentioned in the electronic report drawn up in accordance with article D. 45-3. When the…
The offence notice shall include information relating to: 1° The offending department, the nature, place and date of the offence, the references of the texts punishing this offence, and the identity of the offender; 1° bis When the offence is committed while driving a vehicle, the identification details of the vehicle and the identity of the driver or, when this cannot be ascertained, that of the holder of the registration…
The payment notice specifies the methods of payment of the fixed fine provided for in article D. 45-8.
The request for exoneration form specifies the conditions for admissibility of the request provided for in article 495-18, the methods of payment of the deposit except in the cases provided for by article D. 45-15, as well as the penalties set out in articles 226-10 and 441-1 of the Penal Code. On pain of inadmissibility, the request submitted pursuant to article 495-18 must state the reasons on which it is…
Payment of the fixed fine or the deposit is made in accordance with the procedures set out in the second paragraph of article R. 49-3.
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