Starting Tuesday, 9 January 2018, agents from the Metropolitan Transport Authority (AMET) began to impound vehicles circulating without this year’s taxation sticker, known here as the “marbete”.
AMET spokesman, Colonel Rafael Tejada Baldera, said that all agents had been instructed to stop and fine drivers of vehicles without the sticker, and that the vehicle would be taken to a holding center until the sticker had been bought.
Car owners were given three months to renew the stickers either online or at many loans and savings banks nationwide. Those renewing as of 9 January 2018 have to pay a fine of RD$1,000 in addition to the RD$1,000-RD$3,000 cost of the sticker.
Among the most notable cases resulting from the inspections is that of a Caribe Tours intra-city bus that would have transported passengers to Puerto Plata. The bus was stopped for an hour after AMET agents determined it was not showing on its front window the corresponding sticker.
In some cases, drivers that had obtained the sticker but had forgotten to post it on their window, were penalized with the RD$1,000 fine.
In other cases, AMET reported seizing 277 vehicles when their owners were circulating but had failed to secure the permission to circulate sticker.
https://www.diariolibre.com/noticias/ciudad/fotos-amet-barre-en-las-calles-en-busca-de-los-vehiculos-que-transitan-sin-marbete-FL8940546
https://www.diariolibre.com/noticias/retienen-mas-de-200-vehiculos-sin-marbete-AH8944332
10 January 2018
