Recepción de multas impagas por el Departamento de Vehículos de Motor

Explicación Simple

El Departamento de Vehículos de Motor puede ayudar a cobrar multas que no se han pagado. Pero no puede aceptar pagos a plazos, solo el total de la multa de una vez.

Es como cuando tienes que pagar el alquiler de tu casa. El dueño no te deja pagar en partes, necesita el total juntos para que puedas seguir viviendo allí.

Ejemplo Práctico

Imagina que Juan recibió una multa por estacionarse mal y no la pagó a tiempo. Ahora el Departamento de Vehículos de Motor puede recibir el total de esa multa para ayudar a la corte, pero Juan no puede pagar solo una parte de lo que debe.

Texto Original del Estatuto (Inglés)

Va. Code § 19.2-349.1 - Receipt of unpaid fines, costs, forfeitures, penalties, or restitution by Department of Motor Vehicles. At the direction of the Committee on District Courts or at the request of a circuit court clerk, the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court may enter into an agreement with the Commissioner of the Department of Motor Vehicles authorizing the Department of Motor Vehicles to receive, on behalf of a district or circuit court, payment of any delinquent fines, costs, forfeitures, and penalties, including any court-ordered restitution of a sum certain, imposed by a court for the violation of a state law or a local ordinance. However, in no case shall the Department of Motor Vehicles be authorized to establish an installment plan for any such payments or to receive partial payment of the full amount imposed by the court for the violation of a state law or a local ordinance. For each such payment it receives, the Department of Motor Vehicles may impose and collect a processing fee, to be used to defray the costs of the transaction to the Department. Such transaction fee shall be $2, unless payment is made by credit card or debit card and the merchant's fees and other transaction costs imposed by the card issuer are charged to the Department of Motor Vehicles, in which case the processing fee shall be the greater of (i) $2 or (ii) an amount not to exceed four percent of the amount of the payment. The Department may also collect any processing fee charged by a private vendor operating under contract to distribute to the court payments received by the Department. All processing fees imposed and collected by the Department of Motor Vehicles under this section shall be in addition to the other fees specified in this chapter. All such processing fees coll