The first business day of the new year comes with a raise: traffic fines in the City of Buenos Aires are 82.5% more expensive . The Buenos Aires government updated the value of the measurement system that is taken as a reference to calculate the penalties for drivers: it had been announced in the last week of last year. The fixed unit (UF), the equivalent to the cost of half a liter of higher octane gasoline at the headquarters of the Argentine Automobile Club (ACA), went from $21.40 to $39.05 .
The City Undersecretary of Justice verified that the value of a liter of fuel now costs $78.10, so it established the new UF standard at half its price and scheduled its application for the first business day of the year. The 82.5% increase is due to a delayed update. The mechanism for renewing the values of the fines was created so that the costs of the sanctions are not out of phase due to the advance of inflation. The update is quarterly but it had been suspended in August 2019 due to the economic crisis and in February and August of last year due to the coronavirus pandemic . These factors explain the abrupt rise in the UF.
This is provided for in article 20 of Law 451 of the fault regime. It also states that "the Fixed Unit will become legal tender at the time the offender makes the voluntary payment or the total payment of the fine imposed by a firm resolution issued at the administrative or judicial headquarters." The measure not only includes traffic regulations but also governs lucrative commercial activity, consumer rights, food science, pathological waste, safety and accident prevention, construction, advertising prohibitions .
The modification, according to Buenos Aires sources told Télam, "will impact the entire universe of infractions committed in the City and even those that have not been canceled by their debtors." So that bad parking, one of the most common traffic offenses, will no longer be penalized with $2,140 and the fine will cost $3,905, equivalent to 100 UF .
The cost of 100 UF is the most repeated in the Buenos Aires City Offense Regime: it also applies to those who use a seat belt, do not respect pedestrian priority or the indications of the person authorized to direct traffic. , violates the prohibition of entry to the Microcentro, does not have the Vehicle Technical Verification certificate, manipulates cell phones or uses video playback equipment, among other reasons for punishment. At the beginning of the century, the value of these violations was 150 UF: since January 29, 2010, some of these indicators have been reduced by 50 percent. Others grew up.
There are lighter penalties. Those who improperly use their horn, are responsible for a motor vehicle that is not equipped with a device designed to control the emission of toxic gases, circulate without the fuel tank cap, are punished with 50 UF -that is, $1,952.50. , without rear-view mirrors or with tinted windows that do not allow their occupants to be distinguished, who does not respect the right of way in an intersection or drives backwards without justification, does not carry a driver's license, among other minor or not so widespread sanctions.
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And there are more severe fines. The regime specifies that the penalty for anyone who obstructs stops for passenger transport, exclusive lanes for buses or Metrobus, does not comply with the engraving of auto parts or tries to sneak into the electronic toll booths of the AUSA highways is a penalty of $5,857.50, the equivalent of 150 UF. On the other hand, obstructing the ramps for the disabled or refusing a breathalyzer test warrants double the penalty: $11,715 or 300 UF.
Covering the patent deserves a fine of 1,000 UF: $39,050. Violating a red light ranges from $11,715 to $58,575, passing a low barrier, from $15,620 to $78,100, exceeding the maximum speed allowed by up to 20 km/h on streets or avenues or up to 40 km/h on expressways is plausible at $5,857, 50, above those limits $9,762.50 and speeding over 140 km/h can reach values between $15,620 and $156,200 .
The six most common fines in the City of Buenos Aires
In the City of Buenos Aires, between January and November 2020, 2,675,832 traffic violations were issued, according to the Buenos Aires Secretary of Transportation and Public Works: a significant drop was recorded compared to the previous year -3,072,702- subject to the effects of social, preventive and mandatory isolation due to the coronavirus pandemic. 63.9% of the fines for the January-November 2020 period were for speeding , the most common sanction in the Buenos Aires area, mainly due to the contribution of the highways, where 87.9% of the infractions took place.
The second most common fine was the red light violation: 11.1% of the total infractions that in the 2019 statistics ranked fifth. Illegal parking occupied the third position with 8.1% of the total statistics. It was followed by the invasion of the exclusive lanes, the use of cell phones and the improper entry into the pedestrian zone of Microcentro.
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