I Paid My Red Light Violation Ticket and Choose to Go to Traffic School Do I Have to Pay Again

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• Location & Mailing Accost
• What is a Civil Traffic Infraction?
• Options For Disposing of Citations
• Paying the Citation
• Electing Defensive Driving School
• Electing a Court Hearing
• Driver�southward License, Registration and License Tag
• Driver�southward Insurance Citation
• Improper or Unsafe Equipment Violations
• Handicapped Parking Tickets
• Mandatory Court Advent
• Penalty Amounts
• Extensions to Pay, Elect School, Complete Schoolhouse or Provide Proof
• Court Continuances
• Commuter License Reinstatement
• 30 Solar day Printouts for Hardship Licenses
• Out of Canton Citations
• Satellite Locations
• Change of Address
• What forms of payment are acceptable?
• How soon after issuance must I pay the ticket?
• What will happen if I do not pay my citation inside 30 days or consummate school inside the fourth dimension frame?
• Tin can Monroe County accept payment for citations issued in other counties?
• Can I pay my city parking violation at the clerk of courts office?
• Can I obtain an affidavit to go to defensive driving school in Monroe Canton if my ticket was issued in another canton?
• Does going to defensive driving school go along the citation off my driving record?
• Can I elect to nourish defensive driving schoolhouse after I have paid my citation?
• Does attention defensive driving school keep my insurance rates downwardly?
• Where can I discover a list of defensive driving schools?
• Volition the schoolhouse notify the clerk's role when I have completed the form?
• Driver Improvement Schools

WHAT IS A Civil TRAFFIC INFRACTION?
A civil traffic infraction is a non-criminal charge that can unremarkably be disposed of by the payment of a civil penalization or an election to nourish a defensive driving grade. A courtroom appearance is required when the violation involves serious bodily injury, a fatality, or leaving a child unattended in a motor vehicle.

Charges include pedestrian violations, bicycle violations, Not-moving violations such equally; not wearing your seat belt, not carrying your driver�southward license, registration, or insurance card, expired registration less than 6 months, or expired commuter�s license less than 4 months, moving violations such equally; speeding, running a red calorie-free or terminate sign, careless driving, child restraint violations, or declining to maintain a single lane, and parking citations.

OPTIONS FOR DISPOSING OF CITATIONS
You have 3 basic options. The Clerk�southward office must receive your choice with payment, when applicative, inside 30 calendar days of the date the officeholder issued the citation. One time you cull an choice, yous cannot alter your mind. Please click on the option below for more information:

• Pay the civil penalty
• Elect Defensive Driving School
• Elect a court hearing

PAY THE CITATION
If you cull to pay the civil penalty, you are admitting guilt and D.H.S.G.V. volition assess points on your driving record for moving violations. For Driver License, Registration, or Insurance violations, proof of compliance is also required. See Driver�southward License, Registration, and Insurance Citations for more than information on these violations. The Clerk'due south office must receive payment and proof inside thirty calendar days of the date the officer issued the citation.

You may make payment in person or by mail. If paying by mail, please think that the Clerk�s office must receive the payment within 30 agenda days of the date the officeholder issued the citation. We are not responsible for lost or delayed mail service. Enclose the yellowish copy of the commendation and the Traffic Schoolhouse Affidavit with payment so that we can friction match the payment to the correct case file.

Payment tin be fabricated with checks or money orders drawn on a United States Depository financial institution.

NOTE: In one case YOU Take PAID IN FULL, YOU CANNOT CHANGE YOUR Pick TO A SCHOOL Election.

ELECTING DEFENSIVE DRIVING School
You lot may elect defensive driving school on any non-mandatory instance that has points assessed. These are typically your moving violations such as, speeding, running a red light, neglect to maintain a single lane, child restraint.

If you elect the defensive driving school option, no judication is withheld, you must pay the full corporeality of the commendation and DHSMV will not assess points against your driving record.

You are eligible to elect the defensive driving school once every 12 months and five times in your lifetime.

To elect this option, you must make full out the Traffic Schoolhouse Affidavit Form and pay the fine amount within 30 calendar days of the appointment the officer issued the citation. The forms are available from the officeholder at the time they issue the citation, or from the Clerk�south office.

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You must attend a defensive driving course in the State of Florida. Courses offered in other states are not acceptable.

Once you lot have completed the schoolhouse, y'all must return the school completion certificate to the Clerk�due south office within 90 days from the appointment you paid the school election fine.

It is your responsibility to enroll in a traffic school. For data concerning traffic school enrollment, locations, and fees, delight contact a traffic school. Traffic schools are located in your local yellow pages nether Driving Pedagogy. Some driving schoolhouse brochures are available in the Traffic Division lobby.

Annotation: ONCE You ELECT School, Yous CANNOT Change YOUR ELECTION TO PAYING THE Civil Punishment.

ELECTING A Court HEARING
You can enter a written plea of not guilty and asking a court hearing. The Clerk�s office must receive your request in writing xxx calendar days of the engagement the officer issued the citation.

If you appear in courtroom, you lot waive your right to paying the civil penalty amount. The Guess can fine you upward to $1,000.00 in some cases. The Estimate can also gild y'all to attend driver improvement school and/or pay a penalty. If you neglect to attend a requested hearing, information technology will result in a commuter's license suspension.

If it is impossible or impractical for you to announced in courtroom in person, you lot tin can elect a court hearing by mail. The Clerk�s office volition give you an Affirmation of Defense force to consummate. This form must be notarized. The Judge will read the affidavit in the courtroom. The officer and whatsoever witnesses will show and the Judge will render a verdict. The Clerk�southward office will notify you by mail of the disposition of your commendation.

If y'all neglect to appear for your court hearing, the Judge can hear your case without y'all existence present. The Clerk�s role will notify you of the Judge�s decision.

DRIVER'Southward LICENSE, REGISTRATION AND LICENSE TAG
If the officer charged y'all with failure to carry or display a valid driver's license, registration or license tag, and you lot have proof that it was valid at the fourth dimension the officer issued the citation, you may send a photocopy of your valid certificate, a $15.00 dismissal fee and the xanthous copy of your citation to the Clerk's Office. Clerk'due south Office personnel will dismiss the charge.

IN Order TO ELECT THIS Option, YOU MUST ALSO COMPLETE THE �AFFIDAVIT / PLEA� FORM (PROOF OF VALID DRIVER�S LICENSE, REGISTRATION OR INSURANCE). This form is available on our website under �Forms�. Sign, notarize and return the form with your dismissal fee and copy of citation.

Driver'South INSURANCE Commendation
If the officer charged you with failure to behave valid insurance, and you have proof that it was valid at the fourth dimension the officer issued the citation, you may send a photocopy of your valid document, a $18.00 dismissal fee and the yellow re-create of your citation to the Clerk's Office. Clerk'south Office personnel will dismiss the charge.

IN Club TO ELECT THIS OPTION, YOU MUST ALSO COMPLETE THE �AFFIDAVIT / PLEA� Course (PROOF OF VALID DRIVER�Southward LICENSE, REGISTRATION OR INSURANCE). This course is available on our website under �Forms�. Sign, notarize and return the course with your dismissal fee and copy of commendation.

IMPROPER OR UNSAFE EQUIPMENT VIOLATIONS
If y'all received a citation for improper or unsafe equipment, under Florida Statute 316.610, you lot take the opportunity to elect a reduced fine payment.

In order to obtain this selection you must have a law enforcement bureau audit the vehicle and sign the back of the yellow copy of the citation. The law enforcement agency must sign the commendation within xxx calendar days of the appointment they issued the citation. The bureau volition charge you a $4.00 inspection fee.

Bring or postal service the signed xanthous citation with a reduced payment of $96.00 to the Clerk�s office inside 30 calendar days of receiving the citation.

If you choose non to have the equipment repaired, y'all must pay the regular fine amount.

HANDICAPPED PARKING TICKETS
If you submit proof that you had a valid handicapped parking permit at the time the officer issued the ticket, we volition dismiss your example for a fee of $27.00. You must sign an Affidavit (disabled parking permit violation) at the Clerk�southward office.

MANDATORY Court APPEARANCE
The following charges require a mandatory courtroom hearing:

• Leaving a child in an unattended vehicle
• An accident involving a serious personal injury
• An accident involving a fatality

Penalisation AMOUNTS
These "penalty amounts" tin can and often practice change equally a result of the Florida Legislature enactment of laws. If you want to know the exact corporeality that y'all owe on a citation, contact the Traffic Department or visit the service counter at 1 of our office locations.

The officer who wrote and served you with your commendation commonly indicates a fine amount on the back of the citation. Occasionally, the officer might write the wrong fine amount. This error is not grounds to accept the commendation dismissed or the correct fine amount contradistinct. Should this error occur, you will be charged the amount mandated by current law.

Information technology is your right to contest the citation in courtroom before a judge. Should you choose to exercise this right, the Court will determine the fine and fee amounts, which could be up to $thou.00.

If you want to elect Defensive Driving School, run into the school election schedule amounts.

PAYABLE TRAFFIC FINE AMOUNTS

MOVING VIOLATIONS	$166.00
CHILD RESTRAINT VIOLATIONS	$166.00
Not-MOVING VIOLATIONS	$116.00
SEAT BELT VIOLATIONS	$116.00
BICYCLE/PEDESTRIAN VIOLATIONS	$64.50
PASSING SCHOOLBUS ON LEFT VIOLATIONS	$206.00

PAYABLE SPEEDING FINE AMOUNTS

1-9 MPH OVER	$131.00
10-14 MPH OVER	$206.00
xv-19 MPH OVER	$256.00
20-29 MPH OVER	$281.00
30 MPH OVER AND UP	$Court Mandatory
Construction/School Zones
ane-9 MPH OVER	$156.00
10-14 MPH OVER	$306.00
15-nineteen MPH OVER	$406.00
twenty-29 MPH OVER	$456.00
xxx MPH OVER AND Upward	Court Mandatory

PARKING FINE AMOUNTS

County PARKING VIOLATIONS	VARIES
COUNTY Burn LANE VIOLATIONS	VARIES
County HANDICAP VIOLATIONS	VARIES
CITY PARKING VIOLATIONS	VARIES

Y'all will be assessed an additional $vii.00 clerk's fee if you sign your affidavit in forepart of a deputy clerk.

EXTENSIONS TO PAY, ELECT SCHOOL, COMPLETE SCHOOL OR PROVIDE PROOF
If y'all need an extension to pay your fine, provide proof, elect school, or consummate school, you must make full out a request for an extension. The request must land why you need an extension. The request must also contain your address and phone number. Your request must be made earlier the original due date.

Courtroom CONTINUANCES
If your courtroom date has been prepare the Clerk's part does not take the potency to change the courtroom appointment. If at that place is a problem you should contact the office of the Approximate or Hearing Officer assigned to your case and/or file the advisable "Motion".

Driver LICENSE REINSTATEMENT
If your driving privilege has been suspended as a result of non-compliance for a violation in Monroe County, the Clerk�southward function tin can reinstate your license every bit long as the Monroe County suspension is the only open up intermission on your driver�due south license record. Yous must take your concrete driver�due south license for the Clerk�s function to reinstate. The cost for this reinstatement is $47.l.

The Section of Highway Safe & Motor Vehicle can likewise reinstate your license for a fee of $47.50. You must have proof that all outstanding suspensions in every canton accept been satisfied.

30 DAY PRINTOUTS FOR HARDSHIP LICENSES
The D.H.S.M.Five. may require you lot to furnish them a letter of the alphabet from the Clerk�south office reflecting whatever violations or charges you have incurred or had disposed of in the last thirty days. The Clerk�s office will charge yous $7.00 for this service.

Clerk of Court 500 Whitehead Street Key West, FL  33040 305-294-4641 FAX: 305-295-3615

Clerk of Court 3117 Overseas Highway Marathon, FL  33050 305-289-6027 FAX: 305-289-1745

Clerk of Court 88820 Overseas Highway Plantation Key, FL  33070 305-852-7145 FAX: 305-852-7146

Clerk of Court 50 High Indicate Road Plantation Key, FL  33070

OUT OF COUNTY CITATIONS
You lot must pay your citation in the county in which y'all received it. Some counties have Out of County Defensive Driving School Affidavits. You can fill them out and transport them to the correct county. You may attend a schoolhouse in some other county. Still, yous must get-go take care of the citation in the county that issued the citation.

Branch LOCATIONS
For your convenience, the Clerk�southward office has several branch locations. Y'all can make payment in person at one of the satellite locations.

Clerk of Courtroom 500 Whitehead Street Key West, FL  33040 305-294-4641 FAX: 305-295-3615

Clerk of Court 3117 Overseas Highway Marathon, FL  33050 305-289-6027 FAX: 305-289-1745

Clerk of Court 88820 Overseas Highway Plantation Key, FL  33070 305-852-7145 FAX: 305-852-7146

Clerk of Court 50 High Point Road Plantation Key, FL  33070

Modify OF Accost
If yous have inverse your accost and you accept a awaiting example, it is imperative that y'all notify the court, in writing, of your new address and so that you receive all future notices and correspondence.

Please include the following information in your correspondence:

• Your alter of address
• Your full name
• Your date of nascence
• Your telephone number
• Your case or ticket number

WHAT FORMS OF PAYMENT ARE ACCEPTABLE?
You lot may pay with cash, money society, or a personal cheque drawn on a United States bank.

HOW SOON Subsequently ISSUANCE MUST I PAY THE TICKET?
The Clerk�south office must receive payment within 30 agenda days from the date the officer problems the citation.

WHAT Volition HAPPEN IF I Exercise NOT PAY MY Commendation WITHIN 30 DAYS OR COMPLETE Schoolhouse Inside THE TIME FRAME?
If the Clerk�s office does not receive payment within 30 calendar days or your completion certificate within 60 days from the payment engagement, we will notify D.H.S.M.5. of your failure to pay. D.H.Southward.Thousand.V. will begin the process of suspending your driving privilege.

The Clerk�s role will not suspend your driving privilege for failing to pay a parking ticket. However, the Tax Collectors Office may not let you renew your registration if you have certain outstanding parking tickets.

CAN MONROE Canton ACCEPT PAYMENT FOR CITATIONS ISSUED IN OTHER COUNTIES?
No. Monroe County can but take payments on citations issued in Monroe County.

CAN I PAY MY CITY PARKING VIOLATION AT THE CLERK OF COURTS Part?
No. Yous must pay your city parking ticket at Cardinal Due west Metropolis Hall, located at 3106 Flagler Ave., Key Due west, Florida

CAN I OBTAIN AN Affirmation TO Get TO DEFENSIVE DRIVING Schoolhouse IN MONROE COUNTY IF MY TICKET WAS ISSUED IN Another County?
Yes. You tin can come to whatever Monroe County Courthouse, or whatever satellite role, and obtain an Out of County Affidavit. The charge for the affidavit is $vii.00.

DOES GOING TO DEFENSIVE DRIVING SCHOOL KEEP THE CITATION OFF MY DRIVING Record?
No. The citation will show on your full driving tape, only will evidence arbitrament withheld. This means no points will be assessed. The commendation will non show on your 3 year driving record.

Tin can I ELECT TO ATTEND DEFENSIVE DRIVING SCHOOL AFTER I HAVE PAID MY Citation?
No. Once you pay your commendation, you lot have fabricated your one election for that violation. If you wish to nourish school, yous must make that election at the time y'all pay the citation.

DOES Attending DEFENSIVE DRIVING School KEEP MY INSURANCE RATES DOWN?
It is up to the individual insurance visitor every bit to whether or non going to school will go along your rates down. Information technology is all-time to contact your insurance company if you are unsure.

WHERE Can I FIND A List OF DEFENSIVE DRIVING SCHOOLS?
To detect a listing of Defensive Driving Schools, expect in your local xanthous pages nether Driving Instruction. Some school brochures are also available in the Clerk�s office lobby.

WILL THE SCHOOL NOTIFY THE CLERK�S Function WHEN I HAVE COMPLETED THE Form?
No. You must send your completion certificate to the Clerk�southward office. Nosotros must receive the completion certificate within 60 days of the date you elected driving schoolhouse.

DRIVER Comeback SCHOOLS
For your convenience, the Florida Department of Highway Condom and Motor Vehicle has provided information regarding advisable driver comeback courses and approved schools on their website. See List

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