California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 4 - Procedure on Toll Evasion Violations

• Section 40250.
  (a) Except where otherwise specifically provided, a violation of a statute, regulation, or ordinance governing the evasion of tolls on toll facilities under this code, under...
• Section 40251.
  All toll evasion penalties collected by the processing agency, as defined in Section 40253, including all administrative fees, process service fees, and fees and collection...
• Section 40252.
  (a) An issuing agency may elect to contract with the state, the county, a local authority, or a district organized pursuant to Part 3 (commencing with...
• Section 40253.
  If a contract is entered into pursuant to Section 40252, for the purpose of this article, “processing agency” means the party responsible for the processing...
• Section 40254.
  (a) If a vehicle is found, by automated devices, by visual observation, or otherwise, to have evaded tolls on any toll road or toll bridge, and...
• Section 40255.
  (a) Within 21 days from the issuance of the notice of toll evasion violation, or within 15 days from the mailing of the notice of delinquent...
• Section 40256.
  (a) Within 20 days after the mailing of the final decision described in subdivision (b) of Section 40255, the contestant may seek review by filing an...
• Section 40257.
  The notice of toll evasion violation shall be accompanied by a written notice of the toll evasion penalty due for that violation and the address...
• Section 40258.
  (a) The schedule of toll evasion penalties for toll evasion violations shall be limited to one hundred dollars ($100) for the first violation, two hundred fifty...
• Section 40259.
  If the toll evasion penalty is received by the person authorized to receive the deposit of the toll evasion penalty and there is no contest...
• Section 40260.
  (a) If the payment of the toll evasion penalty is not received by the person authorized to receive a deposit of the toll evasion penalty by...
• Section 40261.
  (a) Within 10 days from the mailing of a notice of delinquent toll evasion violation, any person or his or her agent, may request by mail...
• Section 40262.
  The notice of delinquent toll evasion violation shall contain the information specified in Section 40254 and, additionally shall contain a notice to the registered owner...
• Section 40262.5.
  If the registered owner fails to pay the toll evasion penalty, as required in Section 40262, or fails to contest the violation, as provided in...
• Section 40263.
  The notice of delinquent toll evasion violation shall contain, or be accompanied with, an affidavit of nonliability and information of what constitutes nonliability, information as...
• Section 40264.
  If the affidavit of nonliability is returned to the agency within 30 days of the mailing of the notice of toll evasion violation together with...
• Section 40265.
  (a) If the affidavit of nonliability is returned and indicates that the registered owner served has made a bona fide sale or transfer of the...
• Section 40266.
  (a) If the registered owner, or an agent of the registered owner, or a rentee or lessee who was served with the notice of delinquent toll...
• Section 40267.
  Except as otherwise provided in Sections 40268 and 40269, the processing agency shall proceed under one or more of the following options to collect an...
• Section 40268.
  The processing agency shall not file a civil judgment with the court relating to a toll evasion violation which has been filed with the department...
• Section 40269.
  (a) The processing agency shall terminate proceedings on the notice of a delinquent toll evasion violation in any of the following cases:(1) Upon receipt of collected penalties...
• Section 40270.
  If the notice of delinquent toll evasion violation is filed with the department pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 40267 and the department returns the...
• Section 40271.
  The time limitation provided by law for commencement of a civil action for a violation specified in Section 40250 shall be tolled from and after...
• Section 40272.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, an imposition of civil liability for a violation of Section 23302.5 shall not be deemed a conviction of a...
• Section 40273.
  Any information obtained pursuant to this article through the use of automated devices shall not be used for any purpose other than to identify, and...

Last modified: October 22, 2018