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Acknowledgment of guilt and receipt for payment - 34 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 926

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     § 926.  Acknowledgment of guilt and receipt for payment.
        (a)  General rule.--Except as provided in 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 an officer of the commission the penalty in full, as
     fixed by this title, plus any costs of prosecution which may
     have accrued. 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 hunting and furtaking privileges.
        (b)  Notice of right to hearing.--Each acknowledgment of
     guilt shall have printed on it a notice stating that the person
     has the right to a hearing in a judicial proceeding. At the same
     time that the printed acknowledgment of guilt is being
     completed, the officer of the commission shall give a verbal
     warning concerning the right of the person to a hearing in a
     judicial proceeding.
        (c)  Stopping payment of check.--A person who makes payment
     to the commission by personal check for an acknowledgment
     pursuant to this title and who stops payment on the check or
     issues a nonnegotiable check or instrument commits a summary
     offense of the seventh degree. The official receipt for payment
     of the penalty, issued by an officer, shall become void, and the
     prosecution of the person or persons named on the receipt shall
     be allowed to continue.
        (d)  Limitations of acknowledgments of guilt.--On and after
     June 30, 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. The commission shall only
     designate such counties for continued use of field
     acknowledgment as it finds to have summary offense procedures
     that differ from Statewide summary offense procedures.
     (Dec. 21, 1998, P.L.1274, No.166, eff. July 1, 1999)

        1998 Amendment.  Act 166 amended subsec. (a) and added
     subsec. (d).
        Cross References.  Section 926 is referred to in section 931
     of this title.

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