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.
- Every figure cited
- Source class on every row
- No ads, no account, no forms
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.
- ₱3,000Driving without a valid licenceThe order’s first itemSCAN · READ BY EYE
- 3 monthsLicence suspended, reckless driving, second offenceA consequence, not a fineSCAN · READ BY EYE
- 15 daysTo settle before the licence is suspendedCounted from the day you were apprehendedSCAN · READ BY EYE
Read this before the numbers
Nobody has signed these off
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.
Flagged down?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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Find the violation you were given
The schedule is organised by section, not by offence name. The hub is organised the same way, so a row on this site sits where the instrument put it.