Nowadays, quite often there are cases when the former owner of a motor vehicle receives orders to impose a fine on him for traffic violations in which a car that previously belonged to him participated.
A similar situation may occur due to the fact that the new owner of the car did not re-register it in a timely manner with the traffic police.
It turns out that a situation arises when decisions to impose a fine come to a person who is not actually the owner of the vehicle, which means that he cannot be held liable for illegal acts in which his former car was involved.
All this happens due to the fact that the new owner of the vehicle, in violation of the current legislation of the Russian Federation, did not timely re-register the car in his name, which is why the previous owner of the vehicle is listed as the owner of the vehicle in the traffic police database.
Such situations occur with enviable regularity. The current legislation of the Russian Federation allows the owner to sell his car without first removing it from the register with the traffic police.
It is enough just to sign three copies of the contract for the sale of a vehicle, which can be drawn up both in a notary public and in a simple written form, make the appropriate marks in the TCP, and the car will cease to be your property.
The purchase and sale of vehicles occurs according to the above scheme, regardless of where the seller and buyer live.
The new owner has the right to register the vehicle that has passed into his possession in any territorial division of the traffic police.
At first glance, very convenient. But it should be remembered that in accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation, for the commission of offenses in the field of traffic, if the offense was recorded by means of automatic photo and video recording, it is not the person who was driving the vehicle at the time of the offense, but its owner.
That is why, until the moment when the new owner re-registers the car for himself, fine protocols will be drawn up in relation to the previous owner of the car. Note that the new owner must re-register the car within 10 days from the date of purchase.
How to avoid such a situation?
If you are selling your car, then after signing the contract for its sale, you should contact the traffic police together with the buyer and personally be present during the procedure for registering the car.
Only by personally making sure that the car is re-registered to the new owner, you can be sure that you will not be drawn up for an offense committed by him.
But what if you did not follow this advice and found in your mail a decision to impose a fine? In this case, you have one way out - to appeal the decision received.
For this purpose, contact the territorial body of the CAFAP ODD with a complaint, in which you detail the reasons why the fine imposed on you is unlawful. In our case, this reason is the sale of your car. The application must be sent by registered mail, with notification of its delivery, attaching a copy of the sales contract.
You have only 10 days to appeal the decision to impose a fine. The calculation of this period begins from the day you receive the decision.
In the event that, for some good reason, you did not have time to appeal the decision within the time limit established by law, you will need to apply for restoration of the missed time limit before filing a complaint against this decision. Note that the address of the territorial body of the CAFAP ODD is usually indicated on the decision to impose a fine on you.
You can also appeal the decision to impose a fine on you in the courts, but it will take much more time than appealing it to the traffic police.
What to do if, after the expiration of the 10 days established by law, the new owner of the vehicle did not bother to re-register it? In this case, you need to contact the traffic police and apply for termination of registration.
When the ten-day period established by law expires, during which the new owner was obliged to re-register the purchased car for himself, come to the traffic police and check if they have the appropriate changes in the database.
If you are still listed as the owner of the sold car in the traffic police database, immediately file an application with a request to terminate its registration.
In this case, the state registration numbers installed on your former car, as well as documents for it, will be put on the wanted list. If necessary, the vehicle registration can be renewed at any time.
It is worth remembering that you have 60 days to pay the fine from the moment the decision on its imposition enters into force.
After the period allotted for you to pay the fine, the traffic police will find that you have not paid it, and within 10 days, they will send a copy of the protocol imposing a fine on you to the Federal Bailiff Service.
From now on, this organization will deal with the collection of fine debt from you. Simultaneously with the transfer of materials to the FSSP, another administrative case will be initiated against you, on the basis of the first part of Article 20.25 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.
For the commission of an unlawful act, provided for by the first part of Article 20.25 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, the following penalties are established:
- you may be fined twice the amount of the fine you fail to pay within the legal deadline. In this case, the size of the doubled fine will be at least 1000 rubles;
- you may be subject to administrative arrest for up to 15 days;
- You may be required to do compulsory work for up to 50 hours.
It should be noted that starting from November 15, 2014, citizens who have committed a traffic violation, which was recorded by means of automatic photo and video recording, cannot be subjected to administrative arrest.
They face either the need to pay an additional double amount of the fine, or involvement in compulsory work for up to 50 hours.
Decided not to pay after the court decision?
Refusal to pay a fine after the decision to impose it was appealed by you in court and remained the same, may lead to the fact that your property will be described, and part of it will be seized for further sale in order to cover your existing debt.
In addition, if the amount of your outstanding fines exceeds 10,000 rubles, you may be banned from leaving the Russian Federation.
Some citizens deliberately evade receiving fines sent to them, or simply do not live at their official registration address.
Too many people believe that if they don't get a ruling, they will be able to avoid paying a fine. But this is a huge misconception.
The reality is completely different. If you do not receive a fine in the mail in a timely manner, it will be sent to the sender, and from the moment it returns to the traffic police, the decision, no matter how strange it may be, will be considered handed to you! It is from the day of his return to the traffic police that the period for his appeal, and then payment, will begin to be calculated.
No matter how strange it may look, but this is the norm of the current legislation of the Russian Federation. In addition, starting from November 15, 2014, if you had the imprudence to register on the public services portal, then the protocol on imposing a fine on you may not come to you at all by mail, but to your personal account that you have created on this portal. In this case, the decision will be sent to you in the format of an electronic document.
Is it possible to pay a fine for a sold car
You can not pay a fine for a sold car only if you managed to appeal against its imposition in the manner prescribed by law.
If you simply refuse to pay the fine imposed on you, referring to the fact that at the time of the offense for which it was imposed, you were no longer the owner of the vehicle, then you may be held administratively liable for evading punishment.
If, within the period established by law, you do not appeal this decision or do not pay the fine, then bailiffs will deal with its collection, and you will have to incur additional punishment.
Based on this, in no case do not leave the decision to impose a fine on you unattended. Having received it immediately and realizing that there are no legal grounds for bringing you to administrative responsibility, start appealing against it.
Consequences of non-payment of traffic fines
In accordance with the current legislation of the Russian Federation, a citizen who has been imposed this or that administrative fine is obliged to pay it within 60 days from the date the decision on its imposition enters into legal force.
Note that the decision comes into force 10 days from the date of its receipt by the citizen. This ten-day period is given to start the procedure for appealing against this decision. If payment is not received within the period established by law, the case will be transferred from the traffic police to the FSSP within 10 days for the implementation of the enforcement procedure.
In this case, administrative proceedings will be initiated against the citizen under the first part of Article 20.25 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.
Based on the aforementioned statute, you may be subject to one of the following penalties:
- imposing a fine equal to twice the amount of the original fine that you did not pay on time;
- administrative arrest for up to 15 days;
- involvement in compulsory work for a period of 50 hours.
However, if the decision to impose a fine on you was based on materials obtained from the means of automatic photo and video recording of offenses, then they will not be able to arrest you.
It should be emphasized that if you are brought to administrative responsibility for evading the payment of a fine, this will not relieve you of the obligation to pay off the debt on this fine.
If, even after the court decision, you continue to evade the deserved punishment, the bailiffs will seize your property in order to forcibly recover the amount of the debt. In addition, if your debt exceeds 10,000 rubles, you will be limited in the right to travel outside the Russian Federation.
In the event that you knowingly or for reasons beyond your control did not receive a decision to impose a fine on you, this will not relieve you of liability.
The calculation of all terms will begin from the moment when the decision to impose a fine on you returns to the CAFAP ODD and, thereby, will be considered served.
Also, if you are registered on the State Services portal, then the decision to impose a fine on you must be sought in your personal account, where it will be sent in the format of an electronic document.
According to the current regulations, the buyer of the car is given 10 days to change the registration data of the owner of the car. Well, some unscrupulous buyers do not re-register even after this period, continuing to drive a car that, according to state organizations, belongs to the previous owner. In this case, both the transport tax and fines continue to arrive “at the old address”.
Is it possible to resolve the issue without contacting the traffic police?
Theoretically, it is possible - for this you need to contact the new owner of the car and solve the problem directly with him, agreeing on the payment of the fine received by him. At the same time, it is worth clarifying whether he carried out the procedure for changing ownership in the traffic police. Sometimes this way of solving the problem works, and a conscious buyer relieves the seller of the need to appeal the fine. However, if there is no connection with the new owner, it remains to act by formal methods.
How do I appeal a car fine?
Having received a fine for a sold car, it can and should be appealed. To do this, it is necessary to draw up an application for the annulment of the decision on an administrative offense and send it by registered mail with acknowledgment of receipt to the address of the TsAFAP (Center for Automatic Recording of Administrative Offenses) indicated in the received decision. A copy of the sale and purchase agreement must be attached to the application: it indicates the date of the transaction, and it is proof that at the time of the violation you were no longer the owner of the car.
An alternative option for submitting an application to appeal a fine is to send it electronically. To do this, you need to apply on the traffic police website and also attach a copy of the contract of sale to it. However, in this case, two facts should be taken into account. Firstly, for the procedure of appealing the decision in electronic form, an EDS may be required - an electronic digital signature confirming the identity of the applicant. Find out what it is and how to get it on the State Service website. Secondly, the traffic police still indicate that "applications that are subject to consideration in the manner prescribed by the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation must be sent in writing." Thus, the first option with sending the application by registered mail with acknowledgment of receipt is more reliable.
How long does it take to appeal a car fine?
“A complaint against a decision in a case of an administrative offense can be filed within ten days from the date of delivery or receipt of a copy of the decision (Article 30.3 of the Code of the Russian Federation on Administrative Offenses),” the official website of the traffic police gives such a clear answer. However, if you were unable to appeal the decision within 10 days for a good reason, you can do this: for this, you must also attach to the complaint a petition for the restoration of the time limit for appealing the decision on an administrative offense and documents proving the impossibility to appeal the decision within the period established by law.
Is it possible to protect yourself from receiving fines for a sold car?
There is only one way to completely eliminate the possibility of receiving a fine on a sold car: personally visit the traffic police department with the buyer and make sure that he re-registered the car in his name immediately after you signed the sales contract. If you are not present with the new owner at the re-registration procedure, it is worth remembering that 10 days are allotted for this by law. Accordingly, 10 days after the sale, you should definitely check the registration history of the sold car using special service on the traffic police website and make sure it was registered to the new owner.
If the car was not re-registered within the period established by law, and there is no connection with the buyer, you can protect yourself by contacting the traffic police department with a passport and a sales contract and writing a statement about.
Is it possible to simply ignore the received "wrong" fines?
It should be understood that getting a fine for a sold car is a problem that will not be solved by itself if you ignore it. Until you prove your non-participation in the committed offense and the fact of selling the car, you are the violator. This means that the fine must be either appealed or paid. According to the Code of Administrative Offenses, the fine must be paid “no later than sixty days from the date the decision on the imposition of an administrative fine comes into force” - that is, from the moment it is received. At the same time, as we remember, another 10 days are given to you to appeal the received fine. Thus, if within 10 days you have not appealed the fine, and then within 60 days you have not paid it, the case will be transferred to the bailiffs.
This will not end either: according to the Code of Administrative Offenses, “failure to pay an administrative fine within the period provided for by this Code entails the imposition of an administrative fine in the amount of two times the amount of the unpaid administrative fine, but not less than one thousand rubles, or administrative arrest for up to fifteen days, or compulsory work for up to fifty hours. And although administrative arrest does not apply to violations recorded with the help of automatic cameras, there is not enough pleasant in the judicial recovery of a double amount of the fine (in addition to paying the fine itself). Therefore, if you received an “unfair” fine, do not ignore it, hoping that “they will sort out the injustice without you,” but be sure to start resolving this issue.
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After the sale of the car, you will be its owner until the moment when the contract of sale and the acceptance certificate are drawn up. However, the last document is not always drawn up, and it is not required. The question is that in the State traffic inspectorate you will be listed as the owner until the buyer writes the car on himself. Therefore, all fines will go to you. To what extent is this state of affairs legal?
The car is sold, and the fines come
Let's see what fines can come on a sold car. These are resolutions from video recording cameras of violations. By law, a decision cannot be issued on a car, since it is not a person. The violation is committed by its owner. But in the administrative code there is an article that allows you to punish the car owner, regardless of who was driving. This can be done if the violation is detected by the auto-fixation camera.
The second nuance of the legislation is that the car has already been sold, so it has a different owner. But the State traffic inspectorate thinks differently - it is from its database that data about the owner of the car appears. “Letters of happiness” come to him. The information in the database will not change until the buyer deigns to apply for registration of a car for himself. After that, fines will be sent to the current address.
What's the question
The main problem of inaccuracy in legislation, which makes it possible to receive a fine on a sold car, is that the buyer can register it within 10 days. Until that moment, he has the right to drive and violate traffic rules. Resolutions will come to the former owner. This should not be.
Who should pay fines for the sold car
The buyer must pay for the fines. The subtlety lies in the fact that the car becomes the property not at the time of registration with the traffic police, but at the time of the conclusion of the purchase agreement. Although many do not understand this.
It is from this date that the car becomes the property of the buyer, like all fines. The Administrative Code determines that if violations are detected by an automatic recording camera, fines should come to the owner. Therefore, all fines fall on the buyer, even if he has not yet rewritten the car in the traffic police. But the State traffic inspectorate may not know about the existence of a sales contract.
What happens if fines are not paid?
In this case, the penalty will not be transferred to the buyer after re-registration. The State Traffic Inspectorate does not practice such a procedure. But what to do in such a situation?
rewrite machine
It also does not oblige the buyer to pay your fines if he bought the car. But in this way you will resolve the issue - inform the State traffic inspectorate that another person is now the owner of the car. And now the fines for the sold car will go to him.
Car owners often refer to this procedure as "deregistration", although this is incorrect. You can remove the car from the register only when it is disposed of, exported abroad or in case of loss. The car is always registered with the traffic police, only the owner changes. Therefore, it is necessary to carry out the registration procedure - to rewrite the car to another person.
See also "Canceling the registration of a car after the sale"
This is done only after 10 days have passed from the date in the PrEP. By law, the buyer is given 10 days to register the car.
To do this, you need to visit the MREO branch, regardless of the address of residence, and take the following documents with you:
- DKP with the signatures of the buyer and seller. It will be proof that the car for which the fine has been issued has already been sold.
- Application for re-registration of a car.
- Passport of the Russian Federation.
The application form can be obtained from the traffic police inspector or downloaded from the official website of the State traffic inspectorate.
How to get rid of a fine on a sold car
To remove the fine, you need to file a complaint. It is necessary to make sure that the fine is rewritten to the legal car owner, that is, the buyer.
You can re-register the fine for the buyer within 10 days after receiving the decision.
If this time is missed, then you will not be able to appeal the fine. In exceptional cases, the period is subject to restoration, for good reasons. Let's take a closer look at how to get rid of the fine.
Instructions for canceling a fine
You need to file a complaint properly. To do this, you need to fill out a complaint form and take it to the post office, to the traffic police department or to the court.
In addition to the complaint, the following documents must be attached:
- A copy of the fine.
- A copy of the DCT to prove the sale of the car and the illegality of the fine. It is recommended to attach the original copy of the contract with these signatures.
- Envelope, list of documents.
The address of the traffic police department can be found on the resolution on the fine on the reverse side. The completed form must be sent in an envelope by registered mail with an inventory. Notification is not required. The date the letter was sent is the date the complaint was filed. Many confuse it with the date the complaint was received by the addressee. Therefore, the appeal period will not be missed.
After the complaint has been reviewed, you will also receive a decision to vacate the order by mail.
The contract is lost - what to do
In such a situation, it will not work to appeal the fine due to the census of the car against another person. But there is another way, although it is not entirely legal. The car can be deregistered due to loss. You won’t be able to remove it for disposal, as you will need a certificate that the car has been disposed of.
This article is for those who, after selling their car, received a fine in a "letter of happiness" for a violation that they did not commit. We will analyze in detail the ways to appeal a fine to the traffic police. Perhaps the seller does not have the contact details of the buyer, or the new owner of the car you sold refuses to pay the fine.
To date, the DKP (purchase and sale agreement) is the only legal form for processing a car purchase and sale transaction, so we will analyze situations in which the car was sold by you under the DKP, but you receive other people's fines (you can see the sale by proxy).
The easiest way to solve the problem of someone else's fines is to call the new owner (who bought the car from you) and have him pay his fine within 60 days. And then check that he paid the fine on time. This is the best solution.
What arguments to give to a car buyer, see. Please try this option. But if you have no way to contact the buyer of your car, or he refuses to pay his fine, then it is advisable to proceed as follows.
How not to pay other people's fines?
For example, you sold your car under the DCT to a private person or handed over the car to a car dealership, or put it on the site of a reseller, gave it to a trade-in. They filled out the DCT, indicating the number of the sale, and took one copy for themselves. Received the money and parted, everything is fine.
And a week or a month later you receive a “letter of happiness”, in which a fine is issued in your name for violating traffic rules for a certain amount. Comparing the date of sale with the date of the violation of traffic rules, you notice that the violation occurred after you sold your car, that is, you definitely did not violate.
The violation is most likely committed by the new owner of the car. Many in this situation believe that since they did not commit a violation, this is not their problem, and the fine can not be paid. But is it really so?
Penalties after selling a car
Unfortunately no. According to Russian law, it is not the driver, but the owner of the car, who is responsible for traffic violations recorded by cameras. And the owner is the person to whom this car is registered in the traffic police. And until the new owner re-registers the car for himself, fines will come to you. And in case of non-payment, the former owner of the car, according to the law, can be held administratively liable within 70 days.
What are these 70 days made up of? The first 10 days are given to appeal the fine (we are talking about calendar days, not working days, that is, weekends and holidays are taken into account). It is during these 10 days that you will have to prove that the car at the time of the violation of traffic rules no longer belonged to you, that the car was sold, which means that the new owner of the car must pay fines.
60 days is given to pay the fine. If you ignore the fine and do not prove that it was not you who was driving at the time of the violation (thinking that everything will resolve itself), then according to law 1, art. 20.25 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, a case will be sent to a justice of the peace against you.
Appeal against the decision
The justice of the peace, at his discretion, can double your fine, but not less than one thousand rubles. Or make a decision on administrative arrest for up to 15 days, or send you to compulsory work for up to 50 hours. Therefore, if someone else's fine has come to you, and the new owner does not pay it, then do not ignore it, but start solving this problem. If the new owner does not want to pay the fine, then start by appealing the fine.
According to Articles 30.1, 30.2, 30.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, 10 days are given for appeal. You can appeal against a decision on an administrative violation (fine) by applying either directly to the traffic police department (or to a higher traffic police authority) or to the court. You will be required to provide proof of your innocence. The decision on the complaint is not final. The conclusions of the inspection can be appealed to the court at the location of the traffic police, and then to a higher court (Article 30.9 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation).
If your complaint is upheld, an order is issued to terminate the proceedings.
If not, a fine is imposed. Then you have another 10 days to appeal against this decision in the highest instance (and then there is a countdown of 60 days for payment). The term of the violation, which was recorded by the automatic recording camera, is counted from the moment the decision is received by mail.
If you do not meet the deadline for filing a complaint within 10 days, then along with the complaint you need to file an application for the restoration of the deadline for appeal (in this case, you must provide evidence that you missed the deadline for a good reason). For example, if you were sick, then - a sick leave, were on a business trip - documents for a business trip, on vacation - then a document from work on vacation.
Appeal the decision to the MREO
To appeal the decision, you need to go to the traffic police. There you write a complaint addressed to the head of the department, to which you attach copies of your passport, DKP, a decision on violation of traffic rules.
All. A photocopy of the TCP is not required, no matter what anyone tells you. In the complaint, explain the situation, ask to remove the fine from you.
If you don’t want to go, you can write to the traffic police that issued the decision, by registered letter with a notification, attaching a copy of the DCT with the date of sale (this is the longest appeal option). You can solve this problem by calling the traffic police department, which issued the fine. Find out from them the fax number and to whom to write the application (application header). Then write an application and send it by fax, attaching a scan of the DCT.
Filing a complaint electronically
You can also submit a complaint electronically.
To do this, go to the traffic police website in the appeals section and write a complaint: “I ask you to cancel the decision number ... date ..., since at the time of the violation I was not the owner of this car, the car was sold to a citizen such and such ... Please consider the complaint in my absence, about the result send an e-mail to my e-mail box ... ".
Then make a scan of the DCT and attach it to the letter. Then wait until you receive a letter stating that the appeal has been accepted, and wait for a decision. You must be issued a document on the cancellation of the decision (it is possible in electronic form), without this document the fine will hang on you.
In any of these options, a DCT fine appeal with a date of sale is proof that the car was sold on such and such a date and you did not commit the violation.
The new owner of the car will have to pay this fine in any case. I remind you that when selling your car, be sure to take the contract of sale with the date of sale indicated there.
That's all for today. Don't get fined after selling your car!
Denis Frolov
A person who buys a used car must necessarily register the car. If the car numbers remain the same when selling, you should simply go to the traffic police and add changes to the database (in other words, re-register the car). The new owner must do this simple operation within 10 days from the date of purchase and sale.
Unfortunately, many buyers often ignore this rule, or are completely unaware of it. Therefore, if the new owner of the purchased car gets into an accident or violates the rules of the road, the fine will go to the name of the old owner of the car. In addition, he will also be fined for not having time to re-register the vehicle within 10 days after the purchase. In such a situation, it will have to be paid by the previous owner of the car.
Of course, there are fines that are paid “on the spot”. A new owner caught in such a violation will have to do it himself. But otherwise, the fines after the sale of the car do not differ from the fines that must be paid while owning the vehicle. For example, if the new owner, without registering, exceeded the speed by 20 km / h - the old owner in the amount of 500 rubles. If the speed is exceeded by 80 km / h, the old owner will have to pay about 5,000 rubles.
The list of fines that are issued by car number and come to the old owner:
- exit to the oncoming lane (4-5 thousand rubles);
- riding on the sidewalk, footpath (about 2 thousand rubles);
- violation of road markings (1–1.5 thousand rubles);
- ignoring or incorrectly following road signs (about a thousand rubles, but in some cases, for example, if the rules are violated by a truck on a busy highway - up to 5 thousand rubles);
- and many others.
As you can see, almost all common violations entail a fine according to the car number. Thus, in 90% of cases, instead of the new owner of the car, the old owner will have to pay the fine.
How to return the money spent?
If fines come after the sale of the car - they, unfortunately, have to be paid. That is the law. But you can fully return your finances if, immediately after payment, you sue the new owner of the car. To do this, you will need to collect several documents:
- a contract of sale (the main document, which in the traffic police serves as the main evidence of the fact that the car belongs to a completely different person);
- act of acceptance and transfer of the car to the new owner;
- copies of receipts confirming the payment of the fine (they must be provided in court, applying there with a demand to recover unfairly spent money from the new owner of the car).
Another option for returning money is to put the car on the wanted list. If you do not want to contact the court, you can use this option. As soon as the car is found, it will immediately be arrested, and the new owner will be able to get it back only after satisfying your financial claims.
Of course, the easiest way would be to call the new owner and personally sort out the situation. But in practice, this method turns out to be ineffective, because many people do not want to make contact, especially when it comes to money.
How to stop getting fined? Ways to solve the problem
Fines come after selling a car: what to do? The above options with a trial and search are unacceptable for many people, because they do not want to get involved in such processes. In addition, you can go to court or put a car on the wanted list only after the fine has already been paid. But the problem can be resolved even before the first "letter of happiness" arrives.
Peaceful solution to the problem
This is an obvious, but by no means the most accessible way out of this situation. If the previous owner of the car chooses exactly this method, he must act according to the following algorithm:
- call or meet with the new owner of the car.
- find out why you are getting fines instead of him;
- convince him to pay fines;
- keep the receipt.
As a rule, the decisive argument in this difficult matter is that the new owner may receive a fine of 3,500 rubles if he does not re-register the purchased car within 10 days after the transaction. In addition, in some situations, for such violations, they can even deprive him of a driver's license for 3 years.
Cancellation of registration
This method only works if there were no fines yet. You need to go to the traffic police and find out if the new owner of the car has re-registered. If they answer that this did not happen, and the 10 days indicated by law have already passed, you can write an application to cancel the registration. This is a preventive measure, and if at least one fine has already come, this option is not possible.
Application to the traffic police
This is quite difficult, but the most legal way. Having received a fine for a sold car, within 10 days it is necessary to write a complaint stating that you do not agree with the decision to fine. It should be written in the name of the head of the traffic police. In such cases, the law always protects the interests of the former owner. But you must provide proof of the fact that the car has changed ownership. The best option would be a sales contract, which is why you should always keep a copy of it. The application can not be attributed personally, but sent through a special form on the website of the traffic police.
Cancellation of the contract
This is also one of the effective ways that allows you to stop (or prevent) receiving fines after the sale of a car under an agreement. You can cancel the contract only if 10 days have already passed, and the new owner has not yet re-registered the car. If you already received a fine before canceling the contract, you can get exemption from paying it.
You will have to prove that the new owner committed the offense, but in practice there are often problems with this. To avoid trouble, you need to keep all papers related to the sale of the car.
Application to the court
This option has already been discussed above. It is very effective if you want to return the money spent on paying fines. But in order to prevent getting fines in the future, one of the previous options should be followed. By the way, if you receive fines after selling a car in another region, then it is not necessary to go to this region and file a lawsuit there. You can apply to the court of the locality where you live.
Can you just not pay the fine?
The answer is simple: you can't. Unfortunately, all fines received after 2018 must either be paid or appealed through the appropriate authorities. Many people believe that since the car no longer belongs to them, then they do not need to pay a fine. This is their main mistake.
The former owner may be held administratively liable within 130 days after he received the fine. For the first 10 days, he can appeal the fine, for the next 30 days he must pay it, and for the next 90 days he will be listed as a debtor, which will entail appropriate liability. If you ignore the payment and at the same time do not prove your non-involvement in the offenses committed, you can even get arrested for 15 days. Thus, one should not think that an unfairly imposed fine is a reason not to pay.
