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Title 15 : Motor Vehicles, Traffic and Parking
Chapter 7 : Traffic Violations Bureau

15-704 : When person charged may elect to appear at bureau or before court.

  1. Any person charged with an offense for which payment of a fine may be made to the traffic violations bureau shall have the option of paying the fine within the time specified in the notice of arrest at the traffic violations bureau upon entering a plea of guilty and upon waiving appearance in court, or may have the option of depositing the required lawful bail and, upon a plea of not guilty, shall be entitled to a trial as authorized by law.
  2. The payment of a fine to the traffic violations bureau shall be deemed an acknowledgment of conviction of the alleged offense and the bureau, upon accepting the prescribed fine, shall issue a receipt to the violator acknowledging payment thereof. (1973 Code, § 11-92)