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Article R49-2 of the French Code of Criminal Procedure

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 then give rise to the immediate issue of a receipt taken from the counterfoil book;

or
2° Or when this officer is equipped with a device enabling a dematerialised receipt to be sent to the offender; except in the case of payment in cash, this receipt is only sent to the offender if they request it.

Original in French 🇫🇷
Article R49-2

Le montant de l’amende peut être acquitté immédiatement entre les mains de l’agent verbalisateur selon des modalités précisées par arrêté du ministre chargé du budget, du ministre de la justice et du ministre de l’intérieur :


1° Soit lorsque cet agent est porteur d’un carnet de quittances à souches ; le paiement donne alors lieu à la délivrance immédiate d’une quittance extraite de ce carnet à souches ;


2° Soit lorsque cet agent est muni d’un dispositif permettant d’adresser au contrevenant une quittance dématérialisée ; sauf en cas de paiement en espèces, cette quittance n’est adressée au contrevenant que s’il en fait la demande.

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