Traffic-fine fight pits state against localities

By Peter Vieth
Published: November 4, 2011

Tags: General Assembly, Traffic Offenses

Complaints about “speed traps” may prompt the Virginia General Assembly to recalibrate how the state and various localities divide the money that goes with the traffic fines. Under longstanding practice, Virginia’s local governments have passed their own traffic laws, which frequently correspond to state traffic statutes. Local prosecutors can choose to proceed under local law, which ...

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