Philippine traffic fines · unsigned research

The schedule exists.Reading it is the hard part.

One 2014 joint order prices most Philippine traffic violations, and the only copy anyone can obtain is a stack of page scans. This site transcribes it, names the instrument beside every figure, and says plainly which numbers could not be read, which the law never states, and which the capital sets for itself.

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RESEARCH STATUSEvery figure on this site is at research status. No reviewer has signed one off, and the national schedule was transcribed by eye from page scans.

Three numbers

A fine, a licence consequence, and a clock

Those are the three things a Philippine apprehension produces. The third is the one people miss, and it is the only one that gets worse on its own.

Read this before the numbers

Nobody has signed these off

Every figure on this site is at research status. The national schedule exists here only as page images, transcribed by eye, and the machine text extracted from those images is demonstrably wrong on the amount column and blank on at least one page — so it was never used. Each figure names the page it was read from, so you can check the transcription rather than take it.

What happens next

Three periods start the moment you are stopped

They start on the same day, run for different lengths, and one of them is the reason a licence gets suspended over a fine somebody meant to pay.

A temporary permit, valid 72 hoursYour licence is taken and a temporary operator’s permit replaces it for that period. It is not an extension of anything else on this page.
5 days to contest, in writingEvery apprehension is deemed admitted unless it is contested in writing inside that window. Silence is an admission here, not a delay.
15 days to settleMiss it and the licence is suspended automatically for 30 days — counted from the day of apprehension, not from the day you missed.

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Here is what the schedule actually says

Not what a summary says it says. Each row on this site names the instrument, the item and — where the source is a scan — the page number it was read from.

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By violation

Every priced section, one page each

Grouped the way the instruments group themselves rather than by how much they cost — the biggest figure on this site is a franchise penalty most readers will never meet.

Driver's licence violationsDriving without a valid licence, using a vehicle in a crime, failing to carry your documents, and the flat catch-all the order applies to everything else.Reckless drivingWhat reckless driving costs on a first, second and subsequent offence, and how the licence consequence escalates from suspension to revocation.Drink and drug drivingThe national schedule states no amount for drink or drug driving at all. The fine lives entirely in the Act, as a range a court sets — never a fixed figure.Seat beltsThe three-rung seat belt ladder, the statutory range each rung sits inside, and the stale front-seat child age the 2014 order still prints.Motorcycle helmetsThe rider helmet ladder, the exemption that applies to tricycle drivers, and the fourth rung that is physically unreadable in the order's only obtainable copy.Distracted drivingThe four-rung distracted driving ladder, the hands-free exemption, and the flat override that applies to some drivers on a first offence.Child restraints in carsTwo different driver ladders, the height exception that ends the duty, and the front-seat age the 2019 amendment changed and the 2014 order still shows.Children on motorcyclesWhen carrying a child on a motorcycle is prohibited at all, the three conditions that make it lawful where it is not, and the ladder if it is neither.Motorcycle platesRegistration, readable plates, loss reporting, tampering and stolen plates — every one a ceiling the law caps rather than a fixed fine, plus a staged commencement.Vehicle registration and operationUnregistered vehicles, unauthorised modifications, right-hand drive, defective accessories, plate tampering, smoke belching and the second catch-all.Weight, load and dimensionsLoad beyond the projected width, the axle overloading formula that cannot produce a peso figure here, and the absolute limits past which no vehicle may proceed.Colorum and franchise violationsWhat colorum operation costs by vehicle type, the ladder most franchise items share, the accessibility item's own larger scale, and the revocation-only row.Speed limitsThe statutory speed limit table by road class and vehicle class, and the finding that no Philippine speeding fine scales with how far over the limit you were.

Findings

What this market does not have

Each of these is a thing readers are told exists and this market does not have — or has, in a form nobody outside it could obtain. They are cited like any other figure on this site.

No speeding fine that scales with how fast you were going

Nothing in the Philippine instruments this site could obtain prices speeding by how far over the limit you were. The Land Transportation and Traffic Code sets a single flat ceiling, written in 1964 and never adjusted, which applies to a speed-limit violation alongside four other sections in the same sentence — and it scales with nothing at all. No per-kilometre or per-band construction appears anywhere in that Act. The excess ladder that prices speeding in Germany, the Netherlands or Britain simply does not exist here at national level.

RA 4136 (Land Transportation and Traffic Code, 1964), whole act

The order's own closed list of 51 violations does not include speeding

The 2014 national schedule ends its licensing section with a flat catch-all and then enumerates what that catch-all covers — a closed list of fifty-one traffic violations, drafted broadly enough to reach “increasing speed when being overtaken” and “disregarding traffic signs”. Overspeeding is not among them, and no other limb of the schedule prices it. A closed list that omits an item is evidence about that item, not silence about it, which is why this appears here as a finding rather than as a gap.

Joint Administrative Order No. 2014-01 (DOTC + LTO + LTFRB, 3 June 2014), item I.j · page 6 of the scan

The national schedule states no amount at all for drink or drug driving

The national schedule's drink and drug driving item opens with the words “In addition to the fines and penalties prescribed by law:” and then lists licence consequences only. It states no peso amount whatsoever. The money is entirely in the Act the item cites, and that Act gives a court a floor and a ceiling rather than a fixed figure. This site shows the Act's ranges and shows no amount for the schedule, because the schedule has none — a zero in that place would tell you drink driving is free.

Joint Administrative Order No. 2014-01 (DOTC + LTO + LTFRB, 3 June 2014), item I.d · page 3 of the scan

Smoke belching's fourth and succeeding offences carry no fine figure

The smoke-belching ladder prices a first, second and third offence, and then its fourth line reads only “Succeeding Offense — suspension of MV Registration for one (1) year”. No amount is stated for that rung anywhere. It is genuinely absent rather than unreadable, which makes it different from the helmet ladder's fourth rung, and it means the third rung's figure must never be carried forward as though it continued.

Joint Administrative Order No. 2014-01 (DOTC + LTO + LTFRB, 3 June 2014), item II.f · page 14 of the scan

Franchise fraud is revocation only — no monetary fine

One row in the franchise section behaves unlike every other row in it. Presenting a fake or spurious franchise, receipt, registration, plate, sticker or tag states only revocation or cancellation of the franchise, after due notice and hearing — no monetary fine appears in that row at all, where every neighbouring row is a fine plus a consequence.

Joint Administrative Order No. 2014-01 (DOTC + LTO + LTFRB, 3 June 2014), item IV.6 · page 19 of the scan

The JAO sets no surcharge for paying late — the consequence is a suspension

Failing to settle inside the stated window has exactly one consequence in this instrument: an automatic licence suspension, counted from the day of apprehension. There is no larger fine, no surcharge and no escalating fee anywhere in that clause. Several other countries ladder the amount upward on delay. This one does not, and this site will not add one.

Joint Administrative Order No. 2014-01 (DOTC + LTO + LTFRB, 3 June 2014), item §V · page 23 of the scan

The flat catch-all in the schedule’s first section — ₱1,000 — is what a violation lands on when nothing more specific prices it. Its own list runs to 51 items and closes there, which is why the absences above are evidence rather than gaps.

Questions

What readers actually ask

This site cannot give you a national figure that scales with your speed, because no such figure exists in anything it could source. The Traffic Code sets a flat ceiling from 1964 that has never been adjusted and does not vary with how far over the limit you were, and the 2014 national schedule does not price speeding at all — its own closed list of violations, drafted broadly enough to cover disregarding a traffic sign, does not include it. Where a violation is charged, it routes to the schedule's flat catch-all, or to reckless driving if it is separately classified. A specific peso figure you have seen quoted for overspeeding is almost certainly a city ordinance, not national law.

None that this site can show you, and quite possibly none at all. A demerit-point system is widely reported to exist under the implementing rules of a 2019 licensing law — the rules, never the Act. This site read that Act in full and it contains no point mechanics of any kind: it is a licence-validity statute and a licensing-fraud statute. The implementing rules themselves have since been read in full, and they settle the thresholds that secondary reports used to disagree about — but this site has no place built to show a demerit-point figure yet, so none appears anywhere on it.

Almost certainly, and this site cannot tell you by how much. The capital's authority has its own charter power to fix and collect fines for the cities and municipalities inside it, and seventeen local governments legislate for themselves besides. No primary text from any of them was obtainable in this pass — every relevant government site returns a security challenge that could not be cleared, live or archived. So no Metro Manila figure appears anywhere here. That is unmeasured, not zero.

Because they are not, and saying so is the only honest option. The national schedule exists in this project only as page scans with no usable text layer, transcribed by eye page by page. The machine text extracted from those scans is provably wrong on the amount column and blind on at least one page, so it was never trusted. A human eye is the only instrument between the scan and these tables, and no reviewer has yet gone back over that work. Every figure is marked research status until one does.

No, and that is a positive finding rather than an omission. The schedule's own procedure states one consequence for failing to settle inside the window, and it is an automatic licence suspension counted from the day of apprehension — not a larger fine, not a surcharge, not an escalating fee. Several other countries ladder the amount upward on delay; this instrument does not, and this site will not invent one.

Because it states none. The drink and drug driving item opens “In addition to the fines and penalties prescribed by law” and then lists licence consequences only — the money is entirely in the Act it cites, which gives a court a range rather than a fixed amount. A table showing a zero there would tell you drink driving is free, which is why you will not see one on this site.

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