From January 1, 2015, fines for cars not in the owner's name

Regulations in the Decree on penalties for road and railway traffic violations have just been issued by the Government.

The Government has just issued Decree 171/2013 replacing Decree 34 and Decree 71 on penalties for road and railway traffic violations.

Accordingly, the fine for driving a car at a speed exceeding 35km/h or going in the wrong direction on the highway, driving a car with a blood or breath alcohol concentration of over 50 - 80 milligrams/100 milliliters of blood or over 0.25 to 0.4 milligrams/1 liter of breath will be reduced from 8 - 10 million VND to 7-8 million VND.

The Decree also stipulates that drivers of cars with drugs in their system will have their driving licenses revoked for 24 months (if they have one), or be fined from VND8-10 million (if they do not have a driving license or have one but it is being revoked). Motorbike and electric motorbike drivers with drugs in their system will be fined from VND2-3 million.

For drivers of passenger transport vehicles who do not install a journey monitoring device, or install one but the device does not work, the Decree stipulates a reduction in the fine from 2-3 million VND to 1-2 million VND.

In particular, according to the newly issued Government Decree, there will be no penalty for not transferring ownership of a car when purchased, gifted, inherited... (non-owner vehicle) in 2014.

Accordingly, from January 1, 2015, individuals will be fined from 1 to 2 million VND, and organizations will be fined from 2 to 4 million VND for cars that do not change ownership when purchased, received as a gift, or inherited... From January 1, 2017, there will be fines for non-ownership of motorbikes and scooters (from 100,000 to 200,000 VND for individuals, 200,000 to 400,000 VND for organizations)./.

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