Re: Ticket Advice Needed

[Matt Bauer <mtbauer@uswest.net>]

Bob wrote:

> Gary Kaklikian wrote:
> >
> >
>  DO NOT CASH THE CHECK!! Throw it away! Points
> > are not assessed to your license until all the financial transactions
> > are complete. If you do not cash the check, then the transactions are
> > not complete. However the system has gotten its money so it is happy
> > and will not bother you any more.
> >
>
> And according to my wife (who works for the state police) "nor is the
> ticket closed without the financials being complete"
>
> WHich means, you toss the check and you are considered not to have payed
> at all. Next time you get pulled over, when they look you up, there will
> be a warrant out for you and instead of a ticket, you go for a ride
> downtown.
>
> I know we have been over this, but I am not above rehashing it. I am
> pretty certain in my beleif that most municipalites use a double entry
> book keeping system with many, many small accounts creating one large
> account. The way this works with regards to fines is this: You are
> budsted, given a ticket and assigned a ticket#, say 12345. This creates an
> account # 12345, with a negative balance of the fine, say -$70. You,
> following the advice of a crafty friend, write a check to the PD for $80,
> referencing ticket/account # 12345. The creates a positive $10 balance on
> account 12345. To reconcile this, the PD writes you a check, referencing
> ticket/account# 12345 for $10. This balances account 12345, and at the end
> of the month, that account is purged. If you do not cash the check for
> $10, you are not keeping your "account" unbalanced, but just letting an
> extra $10 sit in the PD's checking account. This money will probably sit
> there till the end of the quater, or year and then will be written off to
> an unearned fees account, or something similar. In effect, all you are
> doing is making a non-deductible $10 donantion to the men in blue. Now, I
> have never actually worked in the accounting department of for a police
> department, but that is typically how similar transactions are handled by
> large corporations. If anyone knows of a different way to work it, please
> share, as I have no first hand experience.
> Matt