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DATE: 6/1/2009 TO: Mayor Uzpen and Council Members FROM: Kelly & Lemmons, P.A. RE: Bill Creating Administrative Penalties for Traffic Citations Background House File No. 1517, and its companion bill, Senate. File No. 1894, propose to create administrative penalties for certainminor traffic offenses and grant municipalities the authority to enforce them after adopting an ordinance and providing for a neutral third party. Both bill versions amend Minn. Stat. § 6.74, regarding information collected from local governments, § 169.022, regarding uniform application, and § 169.985, regarding the prohibition of traffic: citation quotas. The bill proposes an entirely new section establishing administrative fines for certain traffic offenses collected by municipalities and requires the publicsafety commissioner to revise the uniform traffic citation. The House bill was introduced on March 9, 2009 and referred to the Public Safety Policy and Oversight Committee and then to the Finance Committee's: Public Safety Finance Division on March 23, 2009. The House version is authored by Larry Hosch, Roger Reinert, and Bev Scalze. The Senate version was introduced on March 26, 2009 and referred to the committee on State and Local Government Operations and Oversight. On April 2, 2009, the committee provided a report, recommended it to pass, and the bill was re -referred to the Judiciary Committee. It is authored by Tarryl Clark, David Senjem, Linda Higgins, Bill Ingebrigsten, and Mary Olson. Content of Administrative Penalties Bill Procedural Changes The first proposed change to the current statute is simply to require the local unit of government to provide receipts and account for fines collected pursuant to the proposed administrative fines portion of this bill. The House version of the bill proposes to amend the Uniform Application provisions of § 169.022, allowing an exception for administration fines to the statewide. application of penalties for traffic violations_ The Senate version does not include this change. Both the House and Senate versions add administrative penalties to the list of citations that the Traffic Citation. Quota Prohibition Statute, § 169.985, prohibits.