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Acknowledgment of guilt and receipts for payment - 30 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 925

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     § 925.  Acknowledgment of guilt and receipts for payment.
        (a)  General rule.--Subject to subsection (d), a person
     charged with violating any provision of this title which is a
     summary offense may sign, within ten days of the commission of
     the offense, an acknowledgment of the offense committed and pay
     to any authorized officer of the commission the penalty in full
     as fixed by this title. The printed receipt for this payment
     shall only prove full satisfaction of the monetary fine for the
     offense committed and in no way shall limit the commission from
     further revoking fishing or boating privileges.
        (b)  Notice of right to hearing.--Before any person signs an
     acknowledgment pursuant to this section, he will be advised of
     his right to a hearing in a judicial proceeding. The printed
     receipt shall have prominently printed thereon a statement that
     the person charged has a right to a hearing and that if he
     elects to sign the acknowledgment he is forfeiting that right.
        (c)  Stopping payment of check.--Any person who makes payment
     to the commission by personal check for an acknowledgment
     pursuant to this section and who stops payment on the check
     commits a summary offense of the second degree. The official
     receipt for payment of the penalty, issued by an authorized
     officer of the commission, shall become void and the prosecution
     of the person or persons named on the receipt shall be allowed
     to continue.
        (d)  Limitations on acknowledgments of guilt.--On and after
     December 31, 1999, acknowledgments of guilt pursuant to this
     section shall be used only in such counties as the commission
     may designate by regulation for such use upon a finding that the
     county has summary offense procedures that differ from those
     used in other counties.
     (Nov. 3, 1999, P.L.447, No.41, eff. Jan. 1, 2000)

        Cross References.  Section 925 is referred to in sections
     301, 930 of this title.

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