\u2019n Hofklerk het onlangs die bestuurder van \u2019n voertuig in kennis gestel dat \u2019n verkeersboete nou glo eers n\u00e1 24 maande verval.<\/p>\n
Hierdie stelling is egter onwaar. Die bestuurder is gedagvaar om in die hof te verskyn weens onbetaalde verkeersboetes, waarvan een op die lys van drie \u2019n boete van 2022 was. <\/p>\n
\u201cEk het vroeg na die Drakenstein-munisipale hof toe gegaan sodat ek voor die tyd met die staatsaanklaer by die hof kon praat. Ek het vir hom verduidelik dat ek nie eens bewus was dat ek uitstaande boetes gehad het nie en dat ek glad nie eens finale kennisgewings om te betaal ontvang het nie,\u201d verduidelik die persoon, wat anoniem wil bly. <\/p>\n
Die hofklerk het egter aan hom verduidelik dat boetes nou eers n\u00e1 24 maande verval en nie meer n\u00e1 18 maande nie.<\/p>\n
\u201cEk is nogal onkant betrap, want net die dag vantevore het ek weer net my kennis oor boetes opgeskerp en dit was nie wat die internet opgelewer het nie. Ek is toe aangeraai om net versagting te vra en ook \u2019n uitstel-betaaldatum, want ek het ges\u00ea ek kon nie die bedrag eenmalig bekostig nie.\u201d<\/p>\n
Volgens Layton Beard, \u2019n woordvoerder van die Automobiel Assosiasie, is dit onwaar dat boetes eers n\u00e1 24 maande verval.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoetes verval gewis reeds n\u00e1 18 maande, tensy die bestuurder gedagvaar is; dit verander dan die situasie.\u201d <\/p>\n
Beard verduidelik ook dat mense nie so gemaklik moet raak om die feit dat hulle niks in hul posbusse ontvang het, as \u2019n verskoning te gebruik nie.<\/p>\n
\u201cDie feit dat jy niks in die posbus ontvang het nie, is nie \u2019n verweer nie. Ek raai mense aan om gereeld na te gaan of hulle enige verkeersboetes het. Daar is verskeie webtuistes waar \u2019n mens kan gaan kyk,\u201d verduidelik hy. <\/p>\n
Hoewel die nasionale posdiens al vir jare aan flarde hang, word di\u00e9 diens steeds gebruik om verkeersboetes af te lewer.<\/p>\n
\u201cOns maak ook gebruik van die SMS- en MMS-stelsels om mense van hul boetes in kennis te stel,\u201d verduidelik Hannelie Botha, \u2019n woordvoerder van die Breedevallei-munisipaliteit.<\/p>\n
Die Drakenstein-munisipaliteit maak van dieselfde dienste gebruik en volg ook dieselfde stappe, het Riana Geldenuys, \u2019n woordvoerder van die Drakenstein-munisipaliteit, bevestig. <\/p>\n
Botha verduidelik ook die stappe wat lei tot \u2019n dagvaarding om in die hof te verskyn. \u201cDertig dae nadat die eerste kennisgewing van die boete gestuur is, sal \u2019n finale kennisgewing gestuur word, en daarna die dagvaarding.\u201d <\/p>\n
Dit is ook belangrik om nie die versoek om in die hof te verskyn, te minag nie.<\/p>\n
\u201cSodra \u2019n beskuldigde versuim om in die hof te verskyn, sal die landdros \u2019n lasbrief vir inhegtenisneming uitreik. Hierdie lasbrief tot inhegtenisneming het \u2019n minagting-van-die-hof-boete van R200 daaraan verbonde. Die lasbrief vir inhegtenisneming kan uitgevoer word en \u2019n beskuldigde kan daarna in hegtenis geneem word.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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