Increased fines for dishonest drivers

The Parliamentary Committee on Legislation, Law Enforcement, Defense, Security, Peacekeeping, Protection of the Rights and Freedoms of Citizens held its first online meeting in the autumn session.

The agenda was rich, the Committee deputies considered more than 20 issues and decided to submit legislations to the plenary meeting of the Supreme Council for adoption in the first or second readings. They concern amendments to the laws “On Notaries”, “On State Civil Service”, “On Road Safety”, “On Acts of Civil Status”, changes to the Civil Procedure, Criminal Codes and the Code of Administrative Offenses. This strengthens administrative responsibility for drivers who violate traffic rules in particular. Thus, the PMR President proposes to tighten administrative penalties for driving a vehicle by a driver who does not have a special right to drive a vehicle. It is proposed to fine for repeated traffic violations by such drivers. The law-in-draft provides for the possibility of removing them from driving a car or other vehicle. When changes to the Code of Administrative Offenses are adopted, the fine for repeated commission of an administrative offense by a driver who does not have the right to drive a vehicle will be set at 100 minimum wages (1840 rubles), and it will also be possible to impose an administrative arrest for up to 30 days. There is a fine of 50 minimum wages (920 rubles) for such an offense, and the amount is reduced by 2 times if it is paid within 20 days. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, 85 drivers who did not have the right to drive a vehicle were brought to administrative responsibility from January 2022 to March 2023 for violating traffic rules two or more times within one year. There were cases of attracting such drivers more than 5 times during the year. The relevant Committee recommends that the Supreme Council consider this law-in-draft in the second reading.

Another change to the Code of Administrative Offenses within the framework of compliance with traffic rules, proposed by deputies Galina Antyufeyeva, Grigory Dyachenko and Oleg Petrik, was considered by the Committee in the second reading. The law-in-draft strengthens the administrative responsibility of those road users who endanger the life and health of citizens and repeatedly violate traffic rules. Among the proposed measures of administrative liability there is: arrest for up to 30 days of drivers who are deprived of the right to drive a vehicle, but continue to drive; increasing fines for repeated speeding by 40 to 60 kilometers per hour; eliminating the possibility of paying an administrative fine of half the amount for those who exceeded the speed limit by 40 to 60 kilometers per hour; increasing the responsibility of drivers for repeated driving of a faulty vehicle; introduction of liability for repeated drift in the form of deprivation of the right to drive a vehicle for up to one year or administrative arrest for 15 days; doubling the administrative liability of pedestrians, passengers and cyclists for violations that interfere with the movement of vehicles. The amendments were prepared for the second reading. The Committee recommends rejection of some of them. The final decision will be made when considering the law-in-draft at the plenary meeting of the Supreme Council of the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic.