Ley de Tránsito
Reforms Will Be
Decided This
Week
The Ley de
Tránsito will
again be the
topic of
discussion by
the Legislative
Assembly as
legislators
begin next week
to tackle the
work left behind
by their
predecessors
when they failed
to reach
consensus to
approve the
reforms to the
traffic law that
went into effect
on March 1,
2010.
The main focus
of the reforms
is to reduce the
amount of the
traffic fines
and the
elimination of
the point
system, all
contained in a
law that was
passed in 2008
but did not go
into effect
until 2010.
However, it is
yet unclear if
the current
legislators will
pass the reforms
as they have
been tabled by
former
legislators or
will be making
their own
amendments.
If passed as it
is, traffic
fines would be
reduced up to
60% of the
amounts
currently being
applied by
Tránsito
(traffic)
officials, the
scrapping of the
point system
that can see the
temporary and
permanent
suspension of a
drivers license
by bad drivers
and repeat
offenders.
The reform bill
has seen many
challenges, the
most important
was one of
"constitutionality",
that saw the
proposed reforms
end up in the
lap of the Sala
Constitucional
(Constitutional
Court).
Now that all
that is over and
done with, the
bill goes again
before
legislators on
Monday.
Both the Partido
Liberación
Nacional (PLN) -
ruling party -
and the
Movimiento
Libertario (ML)
are proposing
that the reforms
be approved as
presented and
then begin
working on a new
text, to reform
the reforms.
Fabio Molina,
representing the
PLN in the
Comisión de
Constitucionalidad,
says that they
work is done and
the future of
bill will now be
in the hands the
legislature.
However, the
Partido Acción
Cuidadana (PAC)
and the Partido
Unidad Social
Cristiana (PUSC)
are proposing
that the bill go
back to
commission.
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