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California Moving Violations to Include Texting While Driving on January 1st

By Walin & Klarich

If you haven?t heard, California Vehicle Code Section 23123.5 will take effect on January 1st 2009. For those of you who don?t happen to have a California Vehicle Code book sitting on your lap like I do, VC 23123.5 is the brand new ?texting? law that will prohibit you from text messaging while driving. It seems that the government is keeping up with the times and using technology as a basis to stop you and cite you with a big fat ticket. What a bummer. How much money are we talking? The answer depends on where you get cited for the violation. According to VC 23123.5(d) the base fine for a first time offender is about $20. If you?re busted again, the base fine for each subsequent is about $50. Not so bad? Think again. The base fine doesn?t take into account the additional fees and penalty assessments that each county might tack on to the base fine...continue to full post

Full post as published by Southern California Criminal Defense Blog on January 06, 2009 (boomark / email).