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By: Atlanta Ticket Attorney Larry Kohn for All Metro Atlanta GA Counties
Georgia was the first super speeder GA state. Since our law was passed, others other states saw a way to collect more taxes by this method and have enacted similar legislation to “tag” a driver who ignores the posted speed limit signs.
This is a TAX and becomes an addition of a new and additional super speeder GA “fine” for people already convicted of certain high-speed speeding tickets has made Georgia law even worse and justifies hiring a traffic ticket lawyer for those being categorized as super speeders.
Yes, all motor vehicle crimes in Georgia are misdemeanors. Therefore, fighting a Georgia speeding ticket is important to many Georgia residents, as well as non-residents passing through our state. Georgia speeding ticket prices are among the nation’s highest.
In Georgia, two clear choices exist for a super speeder seeking to avoid points and Georgia speeding ticket cost. The super speeder Georgia additional assessment is a separate GA speeding fines. To combat this, you need to:
(1) contact and hire a traffic lawyer to fight or
(2) pay the super speeder assessment to Georgia DDS and the original fines to the jurisdiction where the speeding offense occurred.
If you “blow it off” and skip court, this will result in the suspension of your driver’s license in Georgia. You’ll end up risking arrest for a bench warrant and must (within 30 days of the date on the letter) that motorist will then have to pay a $50 extra fee. If 90 days pass and both the GA super speeder $200 plus $50 are not paid, the DDS in GA will be notified to suspend that driver indefinitely, from driving within the state of Georgia.
Then after those 120 days have passed, the delinquent motorist has MORE problems, once caught driving while suspended. First, you will most likely be taken to jail and post bond on the driving under suspension law. Once you finally settle the unpaid Georgia super speeder issues, you will also have to pay a reinstatement fee, to clear a GA super speeder suspension of the offender at Georgia DDS (our state’s DMV, known officially as the Georgia Department of Driver Services.)
Non-resident motorists lose their driving privileges in GA and will be arrested if they do not pay the super speeder assessment when later stopped in GA by police. That new misdemeanor ticket for driving under a suspension may cause them to be suspended in their home state. Plus, they must now fight this new misdemeanor criminal matter in another Georgia court, since venue will be in whatever GA court the person was caught.
Georgia was the first state in the USA to have a “super speeder” law. In 2009, then-Gov. Sonny Perdue pitched this revenue-generation idea to the Legislature, claiming that the additional proceeds from speeding ticket offenders who ignore posted speed limits could help trauma care in rural areas. The wording of the Georgia Code section on super speeders in GA is found at OCGA 40-6-189.
Because no “mandate” exists to dedicate these funds from high-speed drivers’ speeding tickets for use in funding rural health care, the money is mostly used to pay costs of state government in Georgia. The super speeder ticket GA law is just another example of saddling an undesirable category of citizens, with the costs of running the Government.
The effective date for HB 160 (Act 135, §11) was January 1, 2010. See the initial news story posted by GOHS to laud the supposed rural hospital benefits. Here is that full statutory language:
Any driver who gets convicted of speeding at high speeds will be in violation of the super speeder ticket in Georgia. Specifically, traveling at 75 mph or more on any two-lane road in GA, or at 85 mph or higher on ANY roadway, such as I-85, I-75, I-20, GA Highway 400, or similarly limited access roads.
Simply stated, the new law tacks on an additional state assessment of $200 for any traffic ticket conviction or nolo contendere plea where the speed reported to Georgia DDS (the GA DMV) on the traffic citation, on a 2-lane highway or road, was speeding at 75 mph or more. For multi-lane highways, the speed that triggers Georgia super speeder law is 85 miles per hour or more.
The trap for the unwary lead-footed motorist is that he or she will either go to traffic court and resolve the speeding ticket, or possibly pay the ticket online or by mail, and waive his or her court appearance. But this court procedure merely settles the misdemeanor traffic ticket offense.
That speeding ticket case disposition, however, is what authorizes Georgia to NOW add on the tax designed to make super speeders help pay for Georgia’s government functions.
Yes, if you are going very fast in Georgia, you can. Since reckless driving GA under OCGA 40-6-390 is categorized as a serious driving offense, if this is also charged, an arrest is possible. Plus, committing multiple dangerous driving acts (e.g., following too closely, changing lanes without signaling) can possibly trigger an aggressive driving GA charge, under OCGA 40-6-397.
The new speeding tax law does not (in and of itself) cause license suspension, not add speeding ticket points, or send you to jail. The super speeder law in Georgia a straightforward “strong arm” law for collecting more tax money for violating the speed limit in Georgia.
At risk, if the tax is not timely paid, is your right to drive, plus an additional fine (late fee) of $50, if you don’t pay the GA super speeder tax on time. Indirectly, the failure to pay the tax can do more than cause license suspension, since a failure to pay triggers Georgia DDS to suspend your right to drive, and if caught driving while suspended, you go immediately to jail.
This method of “veiled taxation” allows the Legislators to “not raise taxes” on all citizens, and to thereby curry favor with voters. However, the strategy of collecting millions of dollars, by virtue of the power of BEING the government does not seem to be flawed, since the people who passed the Legislation get re-elected each new election.
Super speeder law is a pure money grab and has irritated every driver who (after paying fines and surcharges at traffic court on their traffic ticket criminal case, under Georgia speeding laws) receives another bill from Georgia, in the U S Mail. The State of Georgia demands another payment of $200 to DDS Georgia.
If the use of a credit card online is unappealing or too daunting, a person making a Georgia super speeder ticket payment can download a PDF credit card form, and fill that out to make payment of the super speeder GA fee.
To make certain that your payment gets matched to your driving record, enclose a copy of your final criminal court disposition paperwork or your name, address, and birth date. For out of state drivers, include your state of licensure, and the state of issuance.
Go to the DDS Georgia website: www.dds.ga.gov.
Their mailing address is:
Georgia Dept of Driver Services
P.O. Box 80447
Conyers, GA 30013
Speeding in Georgia? Speeding is a misdemeanor, NOT a traffic infraction. Learn your legal rights, your options to fight or negotiate, and your potential penalties. Don’t just go to Court alone and expect the case to be continued. In almost all Georgia traffic courts, our traffic lawyers can get a Power of Attorney from you and keep you from having to appear at all.
Our award-winning traffic ticket lawyers, William C. Head, Larry Kohn, and Cory Yager, have a statewide network of expert traffic ticket lawyers, and can refer you to a specialist, if your case is outside the metro Atlanta area. Call today to our 24-hour Georgia attorneys for a FREE lawyer consultation. 404-567-5515.
Georgia was the first super speeder GA state. Since our law was passed, others other states saw a way to collect more taxes by this method and have enacted similar legislation to “tag” a driver who ignores the posted speed limit signs.
In Georgia, two clear choices exist for a super speeder seeking to avoid points and Georgia speeding ticket cost. The super speeder Georgia additional assessment is a separate GA speeding fines. To combat this, you need to:
(1) contact and hire a traffic lawyer to fight or
(2) pay the super speeder assessment to Georgia DDS and the original fines to the jurisdiction where the speeding offense occurred.
If you “blow it off” and skip court, this will result in the suspension of your driver’s license in Georgia. You’ll end up risking arrest for a bench warrant and must (within 30 days of the date on the letter) that motorist will then have to pay a $50 extra fee. If 90 days pass and both the GA super speeder $200 plus $50 are not paid, the DDS in GA will be notified to suspend that driver indefinitely, from driving within the state of Georgia.
Then after that 120 days have passed, the delinquent motorist has MORE problems, once caught driving while suspended. First, you will most likely be taken to jail and post bond on the driving under suspension law. Once you finally settle the unpaid Georgia super speeder issues, you will also have to pay a reinstatement fee, to clear a GA super speeder suspension of the offender at Georgia DDS (our state’s DMV, known officially as the Georgia Department of Driver Services.)
Non-resident motorists lose their driving privileges in GA and will be arrested if they do not pay the super speeder assessment when later stopped in GA by police. That new misdemeanor ticket for driving under a suspension may cause them to be suspended in their home state. Plus, they must now fight this new misdemeanor criminal matter in another Georgia court, since venue will be in whatever GA court the person was caught.
By: Metro Atlanta Ticket Attorney Larry Kohn for All Metro Counties
Yes, all motor vehicle crimes in Georgia are misdemeanors. Therefore, fighting a Georgia speeding ticket is important to many Georgia residents, as well as non-residents passing through our state. Georgia speeding ticket prices are among the nation’s highest.
This is a TAX and becomes an addition of a new and additional super speeder GA “fine” for people already convicted of certain high-speed speeding tickets has made Georgia law even worse and justifies hiring a traffic ticket lawyer for those being categorized as super speeders.
Georgia was the first state in the USA to have a “super speeder” law. In 2009, then-Gov. Sonny Perdue pitched this revenue-generation idea to the Legislature, claiming that the additional proceeds from speeding ticket offenders who ignore posted speed limits could help trauma care in rural areas. The wording of the Georgia Code section on super speeders in GA is found at OCGA 40-6-189.
Because no “mandate” exists to dedicate these funds from high-speed drivers’ speeding tickets for use in funding rural health care, the money is mostly used to pay costs of state government in Georgia. The super speeder ticket GA law is just another example of saddling an undesirable category of citizens, with the costs of running the Government.
The effective date for HB 160 (Act 135, §11) was January 1, 2010. See the initial news story posted by GOHS to laud the supposed rural hospital benefits. Here is that full statutory language:
Georgia Code 40-6-189:
Classification as super speeder; fees; funding for trauma care system
OCGA 40-6-189 (2010)
40 6 189. Classification as super speeder; fees; funding for trauma care system.
(a) As used in this Code section, the term “department” means the Department of Driver Services.
(b) In addition to any other fines or penalties imposed by any local jurisdiction or the department, the department shall administer and collect a fee of $200.00 from any driver who is convicted of driving at a speed of 85 miles per hour or more on any road or highway or 75 miles per hour or more on any two-lane road or highway, as defined in Code Section 40-6-187. Such a driver, upon conviction, shall be classified as a “super speeder.”
(c) The department shall notify offenders of the imposition of a fee under this Code section within 30 days after receipt of a qualifying ticket and notice of conviction. Failure to pay the fee imposed by this Code section within 90 days after receipt of the notice shall result in the suspension of the driver’s license or driving privileges of the offender, and, in addition to the existing fees and penalties, a fee of $50.00 shall be assessed, payable upon the application for reinstatement of the driver’s license or driving privileges. Notice shall be provided by the department to the offender by first-class mail to the address shown on the records of the department. Such mailed notice shall be adequate notification of the fee imposed by this Code section and of the offender’s ability to avoid a driver’s license suspension by paying the fee prior to the effective date of the suspension. No other notice shall be required to make the driver’s license suspension effective.
(d) The department shall be authorized to promulgate rules and regulations to implement the provisions of this Code section.
(e) All fees collected under the provisions of this Code section shall be deposited in the general fund of this state with the intent that these moneys be used to fund a trauma care system in Georgia and the direct and indirect costs associated with the administration of this Code section. The Office of the State Treasurer shall separately account for all of the moneys received under the provisions of this Code section.
The effective date for HB 160 (Act 135, §11) was January 1, 2010. See the initial news story posted by GOHS to laud the supposed rural hospital benefits.
Any driver who gets convicted of speeding at high speeds will be in violation of the super speeder ticket in Georgia. Specifically, traveling at 75 mph or more on any two-lane road in GA, or at 85 mph or higher on ANY roadway, such as I-85, I-75, I-20, GA Highway 400, or similarly limited-access roads.
Simply stated, the new law tacks on an additional state assessment of $200 for any traffic ticket conviction or nolo contendere plea where the speed reported to Georgia DDS (the GA DMV) on the traffic citation, on a 2-lane highway or road, was speeding at 75 mph or more. For multi-lane highways, the speed that triggers Georgia super speeder law is 85 miles per hour or more.
The trap for the unwary lead-footed motorist is that he or she will either go to traffic court and resolve the speeding ticket, or possibly pay the ticket online or by mail, and waive his or her court appearance. But this court procedure merely settles the misdemeanor traffic ticket offense.
That speeding ticket case disposition, however, is what authorizes Georgia to NOW add on the tax designed to make super speeders help pay for Georgia’s government functions.
Yes, if you are going very fast in Georgia, you can. Since reckless driving GA under OCGA 40-6-390 is categorized as a serious driving offense, if this is also charged, an arrest is possible. Plus, committing multiple dangerous driving acts (e.g., following too closely, changing lanes without signaling) can possibly trigger an aggressive driving charge, under OCGA 40-6-397.
The new speeding tax law does not (in and of itself) cause license suspension, nor add speeding ticket points, or send you to jail. The super speeder law in Georgia a straightforward “strong arm” law for collecting more tax money for violating the speed limit in Georgia.
At risk, if the tax is not timely paid, is your right to drive, plus an additional fine (late fee) of $50, if you don’t pay the GA super speeder tax on time. Indirectly, the failure to pay the tax can do more than cause license suspension, since a failure to pay triggers Georgia DDS to suspend your right to drive, and if caught driving while suspended, you go immediately to jail.
This method of “veiled taxation” allows the Legislators to “not raise taxes” on all citizens, and to thereby curry favor with voters. However, the strategy of collecting millions of dollars, by virtue of the power of BEING the government does not seem to be flawed, since the people who passed the Legislation get re-elected each new election.
Super speeder law is a pure money grab and has irritated every driver who (after paying fines and surcharges at traffic court on their traffic ticket criminal case, under Georgia speeding laws) receives another bill from Georgia, in the U S Mail. The State of Georgia demands another payment of $200 to DDS Georgia.
If the use of a credit card online is unappealing or too daunting, a person making a Georgia super speeder ticket payment can download a PDF credit card form, and fill that out to make payment of the super speeder GA fee.
To make certain that your payment gets matched to your driving record, enclose a copy of your final criminal court disposition paperwork or your name, address, and birth date. For out of state drivers, include your state of licensure, and the state of issuance.
Go to the DDS Georgia website: www.dds.ga.gov.
Their mailing address is:
Georgia Dept of Driver Services
P.O. Box 80447
Conyers, GA 30013
The Georgia Department of Driver Safety (Georgia DDS) mails out a super speeder notification requesting the driver to pay another $200 or lose driving privileges. It is not sent by certified mail, or with a tracking method, to prove delivery. So, make sure that any address given to police, after you get a high mph speeding ticket, is your correct address.
Some callers for help from our law office have asked if a Georgia speeding ticket out of state will result in our state trying to collect against them. So far, no effort to do that has come from the Legislature.
Speeding in Georgia? Speeding is a misdemeanor, NOT a traffic infraction. Learn your legal rights, your options to fight or negotiate, and your potential penalties. Don’t just go to Court alone and expect the case to be continued. In almost all Georgia traffic courts, our traffic lawyers can get a Power of Attorney from you and keep you from having to appear at all.
Our award-winning traffic ticket lawyers, William C. Head, Larry Kohn and Cory Yager, have a statewide network of expert traffic ticket lawyers, and can refer you to a specialist, if your case is outside the metro Atlanta area. Call our 24-hour Georgia attorneys for a FREE lawyer consultation. 404-567-5515.
