Only 3% of the traffic fines issued by agents of the Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) are actually paid because Law 241 does not actually enforce payment. Despite this more than a million tickets have been issued in the last two years.
Amet is now asking for a modification in the law to ensure that the fines must be paid within a month, or they will be subject to interest. In addition they are suggesting that non-payers should be prevented from renewing their driver’s license, national identity card (cedula) and should be banned from leaving the country.
Because the law is so flexible, Amet will often impound a vehicle to make people pay the fine, which in itself is in violation of the law, but they say they only do this when the driver does not have the ownership documents for the vehicle (matricula), or is drunk or driving dangerously.
Amet have said that they would like to collect 100% of the fines issued for traffic violations, so that they can be issued as they should be and to implement an road traffic education program for drivers.
www.elnacional.com.do/nacional/2013/1/9/146990/Solo-3-paga-multas-por-Ley-de-Transito