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Traffic Ticket Revenue * USA - Missouri bill would further limit locals’ ones
Grain Valley,MO,USA -Land Line Magazine -29 Jan 2007: -- A bill offered in the Missouri House is intended to curtail communities in the state that pad their budgets with speed trap revenue. This is the second straight year the effort has been offered in the state... Supporters who are hopeful there fortunes have changed say the effort isn’t intended to punish local governments. They want to rein in cities that use their police departments to “pester” nonresident drivers with unreasonable ticketing... In 1995, Missouri lawmakers approved legislation limiting the amount of traffic fine revenue municipalities can keep. Under that law, cities or towns that receive more than 45 percent of their total annual revenue from fines for traffic violations must turn over any amount in excess of that 45 percent to the Department of Revenue... Nance’s bill would reduce the amount to 35 percent...
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