Deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Igor Vysotsky and Anastasia Melnikova took an initiative to significantly increase the penalties for drivers for not having an OSAGO policy, author “Parliamentary newspaper”.
12.37 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation. They offered to change the article. Drivers who do not have a clear OSAGO policy are proposed to be fined 5,000 rubles instead of the current 800 rubles. So they want to increase the amount of fines by more than six times.
In cases where the policy was issued, but did not apply at the time of being stopped by the traffic police, or was not with him, the district deputies offered to increase the fine from 500 to 3 thousand rubles.
Vysotsky and Melnikova explained that this type of liability needs to be tightened with the growing number of drivers refusing to buy OSAGO policies.
Earlier, it was learned that the State Duma deputies plan to introduce bills on binding the OSAGO policy to the driver, not the car, and removing the factor of wear when calculating compensation. in detail about this Wrote “socialbites.ca”.