Overdue inspection penalty

It won't be possible to reach an agreement. People will be fined for the lack of technical inspection

What is the new fine and when should I expect it?

Before 2019, a fine for lack of technical inspection . Maintenance was required under Part 2 of Art. 12.1 of the Code of Administrative Offenses for the following types of transport:

• passenger taxis;
• buses, cargo passenger cars with more than 8 seats;
• special vehicles for transporting dangerous goods.

The driver of a fine of 500 - 800 rubles , since according to the article the punishment follows precisely for driving a vehicle.

However, in 2019, the article of the Code of Administrative Offenses actually changed . Amendments to the Administrative Code were made by Federal Law No. 219-FZ of July 26, 2019 . Now, not only taxi drivers, bus or truck drivers face sanctions for not having a diagnostic card. The amendments will also affect car owners.

The fine increases to 2,000 rubles and applies to all motorists for the absence of a diagnostic card and failure to undergo maintenance. The amendments amend Article 12.5 of the Code of Administrative Offences , and also exclude Part 2 of Art. 12.1 with a list of passenger and cargo vehicles, a sanction of 500 - 800 rubles.

Driving a vehicle for which a diagnostic card has not been issued in accordance with the established procedure, confirming the vehicle’s admission to participation in road traffic, entails an administrative fine in the amount of two thousand rubles.

All motorists were subject to the article, and the financial responsibility for carriers increased.

From 2020, the requirements for passing MOT will be equal for everyone. Photo: zr.ru.

When will the new fine come into effect?

Federal laws that amend existing legislation gain full force after 10 days or the specified period . Federal Law No. 219 comes into force one year after its official publication . The text of the law was posted on July 31, 2019 on the Rossiyskaya Gazeta website.

It turns out that fines for lack of maintenance will begin on August 1, 2020.

Therefore, the law did not come into force in the summer, and you should not expect innovation from January 1, 2020.

Will there be a penalty for late maintenance?

There is no concept of “expired MTPL policy” or “overdue technical inspection” in the legislation. You either have an insurance policy or you don’t. The validity period is specified in the “automobile license”.

Same with the diagnostic card. You do not pass the test, do not receive a new document about the condition of the car, which means there is no technical inspection. Hello, the fine is 2000 rubles.

Federal Law No. 170 regulates maintenance. Within the framework of the Federal Law, each type of vehicle undergoes control in its own way:

• Passenger cars, trucks up to 3.5 tons and motorcycles aged 3 - 7 years are checked every 2 years ;
• “passenger cars”, trucks up to 3.5 tons, trailers, motorcycles over 7 years old - once a year ;
• trucks heavier than 3.5 tons, special service vehicles, driving school vehicles - once a year;
• taxis, trucks, buses, vehicles that transport dangerous goods - every 6 months .

Passenger cars, trucks lighter than 3.5 tons, motorcycles not older than 3 years do not undergo maintenance. no fine for not having a diagnostic card for a new car.

There is no concept of “expired diagnostic card” in the law. The document either exists or has expired. Photo: osagogo.ru.

Sanction for traveling without a card

A traffic police inspector can fine a motorist without a technical inspection when checking documents. In the traffic rules, among the documents that should be submitted to the inspector for inspection, there is no diagnostic card . But an employee of the State Traffic Inspectorate has the right to check the car according to the technical inspection database. If there is no DC, there will be a fine.

The punishment is determined by recording cameras: the system searches the car through the databases. According to the new regulations, employees of inspection stations are required to transmit information to the EAISTO database . In the summer of 2019, an experiment with cameras revealed thousands of fake insurance policies, wrote Vyberu.ru.

Note! You can only be fined once per day; you risk receiving a second fine after 24 hours. Time is given to you to eliminate the violation and receive DC.

In the future, the government plans to abandon paper diagnostic records and switch to electronic records. It will not be possible to “agree on the spot” with station employees. The inspection will be tightened, since today the operator most often briefly inspects the machine. The motorist himself rarely resists. Before the new edition of the Code of Administrative Offenses comes into force, a diagnostic card is needed for registration of compulsory motor liability insurance.

1. For a “cursory inspection” of the car and receiving a fictitious card, the driver faces a fine of 5,000 - 10,000 rubles.
2. Technical experts and officials will have to pay 30,000 - 50,000.
3. Entrepreneurs and legal entities - 200,000 - 300,000.
4. Sanctions will also be imposed for maintenance without accreditation: up to 300,000 rubles. for legal entities for the first violation and up to 500,000 for a repeated violation.
5. If a car is inspected by a person who is not included in the register, the station will be fined 20,000.
6. For working with regular violations, legal entities face up to 6 months of arrest under Art. 171 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation .

The traffic police inspector must run the car through the EAISTO database to find information about the maintenance. Photo: d-cd.net.

The current version of Art. 14.4.1 The Code of Administrative Offenses provides penalties only for businesses. But in June 2019, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on full photo and video recording of vehicle inspections and the transition to electronic CDs. Station operators note that due to the difficulties of switching to new technical regulations, the cost of the service will increase. The points will have to be equipped with cameras, and huge amounts of information will have to be stored somewhere.

The new editions of the Code of Administrative Offenses and the Criminal Code will come into force no earlier than the summer of 2020.

Let's sum it up

Drivers refer to traffic regulations, noting that the Rules do not contain a clause on maintenance and the presence of a traffic control system. The rules are a document that is much weaker than the Federal Law and the Administrative Code. From the summer of 2020, motorists will have to comply with the strict rules of the Code of Administrative Offenses not only to obtain a permit for the purchase of compulsory motor liability insurance and not to drive without insurance.

You will still have to visit a service station to buy a vehicle license. But the responsibility for driving without diagnostics has also increased. The government has introduced new requirements of the Code of Administrative Offenses to reduce the number of false registration certificates and formal vehicle checks. Remember that with a fake OSAGO and a “fake” card, the insurance company has the right to refuse compensation.

New fine for lack of technical inspection in Russia - how much and when will it come into force?

Fine for lack of technical inspection

Until 2019, there was no fine for technical inspection at all. Its obligatory nature was determined only by the opportunity to purchase compulsory motor vehicle insurance (MTPL) for a car - without maintenance the vehicle would not be sold to you. At the same time, the rules for completing the procedure have recently changed - now it has become much more difficult to buy a diagnostic card without visiting for a check. But very soon there will be a separate new traffic police fine for failure to pass a technical inspection of a car in Russia. How it will be issued, according to what standard, how much it will be, when it will come into force and whether there will be a repetition of the violation, we will find out in this article.

What are the changes in the punishment for technical inspections in 2019?

The corresponding change is introduced by Federal Law No. 219-FZ of July 26, 2019. In particular, they are introducing a new fine for technical inspection not only for drivers, but also for operators of service stations, as well as their disqualification for violations in this area, in particular for the sale of diagnostic cards.

Before the changes, there were 2 main sanctions for not having a card:

• fines for failure to pass a technical inspection were issued only to drivers of taxis, trucks, buses,
• the presence of a diagnostic card was a condition for purchasing an MTPL policy.

Now, a new financial penalty is being introduced for all drivers, including ordinary cars, for driving without a completed MOT, and a separate sanction for taxi, truck and bus drivers is no longer in force.

The new fine is effective from January 1, 2019 - is this true?

No it is not true. Despite the fact that you may have seen or heard in many news reports that the new penalty in Russia for failure to pass a technical inspection has been in effect since January 1, 2019, this information does not correspond to the truth.

Chapter 12 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation is responsible for all traffic violations. And you will not find a fine in its current version, except for the lack of technical inspection only for the category of vehicles listed above, you will not find.

The new fine for failure to pass a technical inspection will be 2,000 rubles.

A corresponding change is being introduced to Article 12.5 of the Administrative Code, which contains a list of sanctions for vehicle malfunctions. In particular, it is supplemented by a new part 1 1, which, after entering into force, will literally look like this:

eleven . Driving a vehicle for which a diagnostic card has not been issued in accordance with the established procedure , confirming the vehicle’s admission to participation in road traffic, entails the imposition of an administrative fine in the amount of two thousand rubles .

At the same time, Part 2 of Article 12.1, which previously provided for a fine of 500-800 rubles for driving without a technical inspection for drivers of taxis, trucks and buses, is excluded.

eleven . Driving a vehicle for which a diagnostic card has not been issued in accordance with the established procedure, confirming the vehicle’s admission to participation in road traffic, entails an administrative fine in the amount of two thousand rubles.

When does it take effect?

Federal Law No. 219, introducing a new fine if there is no technical inspection of the car, was developed on July 26, 2019. But this does not mean that it immediately comes into force.

Federal laws amending them take effect by default after 10 days, unless the law itself specifies a different period. In our case, this different period is indicated - exactly one year from the date of official publication.

Official publication took place on July 31, 2019 on the Rossiyskaya Gazeta website.

Thus, a new fine of 2,000 rubles comes into force on August 1, 2020.

How will they be punished?

Everything is very simple! A sanction can be issued either by a traffic police inspector on the road in the absence of a diagnostic card, or on an auto-fixation camera when a technical basis for this appears.

But please note that clause 2.1.1 of the traffic rules contains an exhaustive list of documents that must be submitted to a traffic police officer for verification. And there is no diagnostic card here. Therefore, the driver has no obligation to carry a diagnostic card with him, and a new fine will be issued not for its absence, but for the absence of a completed technical inspection.

That is, the traffic police inspector will check the database for the presence of maintenance, and only then will he issue a fine.

How many times can you be discharged per day?

No more than once. The new law introducing a fine also adds a note to Part 12.5 of the Code of Administrative Offences, according to which drivers cannot be fined again within 24 hours after the first decision is issued.

Note. A person who has committed an administrative offense provided for in Part 1 1 of this article shall not be held administratively liable for the second and subsequent cases of detection of such an administrative offense within twenty-four hours from the moment of the first detection of such an administrative offense.

For example, if you were fined for the first time at 12:00 on December 6, 2019, then they will not be able to issue a second fine until 12:00 the next day, and at 12:00:01 onwards they already have the right to do so.

Meanwhile, repetition of this violation will not provide for a more severe sanction, as, for example, there is one for repeated speeding.

But in the traffic rules there is no obligation to undergo maintenance!

Many motorists are indignant - a new fine for failing to pass a technical inspection has been introduced, but there are no corresponding changes in the traffic rules. However, the Rules are not the only legal act that drivers must follow. In order to comply with the new rules of control and technical inspection, updates have been introduced to Federal Law No. 170, which provide for mandatory maintenance every period of time.

What is the penalty for late inspection?

A fine for driving without a technical inspection is an administrative measure that penalizes driving a car without checking its condition and obtaining a diagnostic card. But if previously the lack of a supporting document had consequences for all car owners, in 2019 fines are levied on a limited number of drivers. However, changes in the law do not mean that you can forget about checking the condition of the car. On the contrary, the lack of regular checks leads to a number of problems, including when purchasing compulsory motor liability insurance.

What are the consequences of not having a diagnostic card? Who is required to receive it?

Subtleties of passing technical inspection

Until 2012, after a vehicle was inspected, a coupon was issued, which was later replaced by a diagnostic card. To carry out the work, the owner contacts a service station (you can select the appropriate option on the RSA website), and information about the vehicle inspection is reflected in the electronic database.

To pass the technical inspection, you must have your license and passport, as well as a certificate of state registration of the vehicle. If the car owner does not provide any of the papers or the car license plates do not correspond to the registration data, the service has the right to refuse to provide the service.

The inspection period is as follows:

• New car (up to 3 years old) - no inspection.
• For cars from 3 to 7 years old - once every two years.
• Ages 7 years and older - once a year.

Who is the punishment for?

In 2019, a fine for late technical inspection (lack of a diagnostic card) is provided for drivers of the following vehicles:

1. Cars with special signals (sound, light).
2. Taxi.
3. Minibuses and buses with a number of seats from 8 or more.
4. Passenger cars that are used for training.
5. Trucks with a total weight of 3500 kg or more.

Car owners who are not included in the specified list use the diagnostic card only when contacting an insurer under MTPL. It turns out that you cannot do without a technical inspection of the car, because if this requirement is ignored, no one will issue a policy, and this is fraught with a fine.

Punishment for violation

If a taxi driver, bus (minibus) or truck driver drives without a technical inspection, the fine for the violation in 2019 is 800 rubles, if the violation is the first. In the case when an inspector catches a driver without a technical inspection for the second time, the payment is already 5 thousand rubles. Additionally, the driver is deprived of the right to drive for a period of up to 3 months. If the car owner has not passed the next car inspection, he will no longer apply for compulsory motor liability insurance. At the same time, driving without a policy will cost 800 rubles.

It is worth considering that when stopping a vehicle, the inspector does not check the diagnostic card (he is not interested in it), but the presence of compulsory motor liability insurance is required. Traveling without a policy is considered a direct violation of traffic rules and entails the fine mentioned above.

When a fine is imposed, it is important to pay off the debt as quickly as possible. This can be done through the online account of Sberbank, using a payment terminal or through the cash desk of any bank. It happens that after paying off the debt, the fine continues to hang on the driver. If this situation persists within 3-5 days, you should come to the local traffic police department and fill out an application. A receipt confirming repayment of the debt is attached to it.

What should foreigners do?

If the vehicle has been registered in another country, there is no need for a technical inspection. In case of a stop on the road, the inspector will not check the presence of a diagnostic card, but the presentation of a green card is mandatory. In the absence of such a document, you will have to draw up compulsory motor liability insurance taking into account the general rules, but before that you will need to check the car at a service station to obtain a diagnostic card.

Changes in legislation that occurred at the beginning of 2012 led to the disappearance of the fine for lack of technical inspection. At the same time, the joy of car owners was short-lived, because the lack of a diagnostic card (it was this that replaced the coupon) does not allow issuing compulsory motor liability insurance. Driving without a policy, in turn, leads to administrative penalties.

The main condition for cooperation with the insurer is a valid diagnostic card. If it is active at the time of registration of the contract, there will be no difficulties in obtaining an insurance policy. Otherwise, the insurance company will refuse the service, and the driver risks running into a fine of 800 rubles and more serious problems in the event of an accident.

As for drivers of passenger transport, trucks and taxis, the legal requirements for them remained unchanged. Passing a technical inspection is mandatory, and violating traffic rules will result in a fine, and if you stop again, even deprivation of your license. At the same time, we must not forget that the owner, and not the traffic police inspector, is primarily interested in a serviceable car.

​Fine for technical inspection

The procedure for passing a technical inspection is familiar to every driver, because until recently, any driver could get caught by a traffic police officer and receive a fine for a technical inspection in his absence. However, the legislative framework tends to constantly change. Today, according to the requirements for the use of vehicles, technical inspection can be checked only for certain categories of drivers. However, everything is not so simple. Let's look at the question of the need to undergo a technical inspection in 2019.

Let us remind you that at present such a document as a technical inspection coupon has ceased to be valid. Replaced by the so-called diagnostic card /

Conditions for passing technical inspection for various vehicles

According to current legislation, the established period after which a re-inspection is required depends on the type of vehicle and its age. According to general rules, if less than three years have passed since the start of operation, no technical inspection is required. The next starting point is 7 years. If the vehicle is younger than this age, then repeated technical inspection is provided every two years, if older - every year.

Separately, it is worth noting such categories of transport as:

• Taxi;
• trucks weighing more than 3.5 tons;
• buses (if it seats more than eight people);
• special transport.

For these types of transport, passing a technical inspection is valid for six months. However, in any case, the form of operation of a particular vehicle plays a decisive role.

Amount of fine for lack of technical inspection in 2019

The fine for driving without a technical inspection is from 500 to 800 rubles (Administrative Code, Article 12.1) . For the first time, traffic police officers can issue a fine of 500 rubles; for a repeated offense, the amount of sanctions will increase to 800 rubles. Repeated violation may result in deprivation of rights.

The fine for failing to pass a technical inspection applies only to drivers of passenger vehicles (buses, minibuses, minibuses, etc.), trucks, taxis and vehicles transporting dangerous goods. Drivers of these vehicles are required to undergo technical inspection 2 times a year. If the driver of a category “B” car does not pass the technical inspection, no fine will be imposed.

Despite the lack of punishment, ordinary drivers one way or another need to undergo testing for two reasons:

• without a diagnostic card you cannot obtain a compulsory motor liability insurance policy;
• Driving a vehicle that has not been checked for faults for a long time increases the risk of an accident and endangers the lives of the driver and other road users.

In 2019, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a new bill that toughens the punishment for failure to pass a technical inspection for all drivers. Lawmakers propose increasing the fine to 2,000 rubles for motorists with fake diagnostic cards. Lack of maintenance and false documents will be recorded not only by traffic police officers, but also by surveillance cameras installed on the highways.

In addition, according to the new law, it is planned to reform the very principle of undergoing maintenance: the entire procedure will be filmed to confirm the validity of the inspection and the authenticity of the documents received after checking the vehicle.

Who pays the fine?

For lack of technical inspection, a fine is imposed not on the owner of the car, but on the driver. In this regard, transport companies and organizations with personal fleets are motivated to complete the procedure in a timely manner.

Who risks getting a fine without a technical inspection?

According to the rules of the latest version of the law, only drivers of the following vehicles can receive a fine for lack of technical inspection:

• Taxi;
• buses;
• trucks;
• specialized equipment (when transporting dangerous goods).

It is these road users that traffic police officers have the right to check for the availability of a diagnostic card and its validity period. This approach is due to the fact that these drivers have a higher degree of responsibility. The penalty may consist of either a fine of up to 5,000 rubles, or deprivation of rights for up to three months. Moreover, the driver (the citizen who was driving) will have to pay the penalty. Driving by another person without a technical inspection does not entail any consequences for the vehicle owner.

As for other vehicles, their drivers, even if requested by internal affairs officers, have the right not to provide a diagnostic card for inspection. Consequently, such drivers cannot receive a fine for an overdue technical inspection, so untimely extension of its validity does not pose a critical problem.

Nevertheless, this service remains in demand. Despite the absence of the likelihood of receiving a fine without a technical inspection for most drivers, refusal to undergo it entails another problem - the impossibility of obtaining a compulsory motor liability insurance policy.

Such measures are planned to be introduced in connection with the increasing incidence of accidents with cars without technical inspection, as well as due to the large number of drivers driving with purchased fake MOT documents. Be careful: even if the insurance company does not require the provision of a diagnostic card when applying for an insurance policy, it has the right to refuse to pay compensation if a car that has not passed the inspection was involved in an accident. In other words, the meaning of the insurance procedure is lost, since it does not reduce the risks of road users and does not cover their expenses.

In addition, passing a technical inspection has significant practical importance, because it allows you to control the current condition of the car, thereby reducing the likelihood of a breakdown that could cause an accident. Ensuring the vehicle is in good condition and the driver's own safety is a strong argument for timely inspection for any vehicle, regardless of whether there is a threat of a fine.

Thus, we can conclude that passing a technical inspection remains a mandatory procedure for a number of drivers who drive these categories of vehicles, since if they exceed the established deadlines, they face a fine. However, this procedure and obtaining a diagnostic card does not lose its relevance for other drivers, since otherwise problems arise both with the registration of a compulsory MTPL insurance policy and with the payment of compensation when an insured event occurs.

How to pay a fine for driving without a technical inspection?

The same system applies to traffic police fines as with state taxes and fees: how to pay them is up to the person himself. Let's name the main methods:

• In the bank. To pay, the driver presents a completed receipt to the ticket office. Her form is downloaded at the office. on the civil service website or issued at the branch (by an operator based on affixing);
• At an ATM/terminal. Details are entered into the device - date of resolution, full name and address. Payment can be made in cash or transferred from a card;
• Via Internet banking. Money is transferred in your personal account from any account - for example, a salary account. To pay, you need the number of the decree, driver's license or STS;
• Through the payment system. Money can be transferred from an electronic wallet opened in one of the services - Yandex.Money, WebMoney, Qiwi, etc. The driver indicates the decree number or his data;
• On the traffic police website. In the “Check fines” section, drivers can not only view the list of offenses, but also pay a fee;
• On the government services website. Payments are available to users who have verified their account. Afterwards, you just need to enter your driver’s license number and STS into the system - the list of offenses will be displayed automatically.

Before paying, you should clarify the size of the commission. For example, government services and the traffic police website do not charge a percentage at all, but systems like Qiwi and Sberbank Online always charge commissions - from 1 to 3.5%.

Punishment and fine for overdue technical inspection in 2020

In the recent past, driving a car onto the road without a technical inspection ticket (TO) meant for the driver the inexorable application of penalties by traffic police officers. The improvement of legislation and the addition of traffic rules since 2012 have created conditions for a “gentle” regime for technical inspection of a car, eliminating the need for a private driver to have documents confirming the procedure with him. But for certain categories of vehicles, mandatory maintenance remains, and violations entail administrative penalties. What fine is provided for an overdue technical inspection in 2020, and who is obliged to pay it, is disclosed in the text below.

Conditions for passing technical inspection

In 2020, the conditions for passing a technical inspection have not undergone significant changes. The actions of the car owner remained the same, but from February 22, the requirements for the condition of the car’s components and assemblies became more stringent:

1. Power steering (PS). In addition to checking the URU of any design, the condition of the damper will be checked. If the manufacturer has provided it, its absence or inoperability will lead to the need for re-inspection after the defect has been eliminated. The innovation applies to all vehicles, with the exception of towed devices.
2. Headlight lenses. If previously their presence and serviceability were sufficient, now the requirements are supplemented by a ban on the application of coatings (protective films, etc.) or tinting.
3. Headlights. Since February of this year, vehicles with damaged reflective elements of headlights, changes in their color and glass shape, as well as with an asymmetrical arrangement are not allowed to be used.
4. Windscreen wipers. Previously, it was sufficient to have one nozzle and one glass cleaning brush, but their performance was not checked. Today, windshield wipers (brushes and washers) must comply with the technical documentation of the car and be operational.
5. The wheel studs must be of the same type.
6. Gas equipment. Cylinders must have separate passports, the body must be marked, the test schedule must be strictly observed, and design changes are not allowed.
7. It is mandatory to have an emergency stop sign, fire extinguishing equipment, and a first aid kit.
8. Leaking oil and fluids. If detected, the operation of the vehicle is suspended until the cause is eliminated. Previously, the allowed norm was no more than 20.0 drops per minute.

Making even minor design changes is an absolute violation. If they are not included in the technical documentation and there are no permits, then the transport is not allowed to operate.

Familiarization with the presented material indicates that drivers are required to submit vehicles for diagnostic testing within the time limits prescribed by the rules. The question of how long you can drive with an expired technical inspection is insignificant - driving vehicles without maintenance is a violation of existing legislation and poses a potential danger to road users. In addition, without timely determination of the technical feasibility of operating a vehicle, it is impossible to issue a compulsory auto insurance contract, and law enforcement officers are obliged to bring the violator to administrative responsibility.

What is the fine for an overdue vehicle inspection in 2020?

The punishment for overdue technical inspection is provided for by the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation, and is presented as follows:

• Article 112 part 2 - for driving a taxi, a bus for transporting passengers, a car with more than eight seats, as well as transporting dangerous goods, without a valid MOT for the first time, is punishable by a fine in the amount of 500.0 to 800.0 rubles, repeatedly up to 5 thousand . rubles, systematically - deprivation of the right to drive a car for up to 3.0 months;
• Article 12.31 part 1 - for the release from the parking lot of an enterprise onto the line for the transportation of passengers or the delivery of cargo of vehicles that have not passed the technical inspection within the established time limits, officials will be held liable in the form of a fine of 500.0 rubles, legal entities - 50.0 thousand rubles .

Important! If a driver is refused to enter into a civil liability contract due to lack of information about diagnostics, then when operating a car without a policy, in accordance with Article 12.37 Part 2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses, he will be fined 800.0 rubles.

Who is responsible for the lack of technical inspection

As a rule, an overdue technical inspection is detected by traffic police officers when checking the documents of the driver of a vehicle on the road. Since this fact is a violation of current traffic rules, the driver is held accountable under Article 12, Part 2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.

At the same time, if violations of maintenance deadlines are discovered repeatedly in the vehicles of one entrepreneur (legal entity), then a comprehensive inspection of the carrier company can be initiated. Identification of systemic or private violations during the inspection and release of vehicles onto the line provides for sanctions against officials under Article 12.31 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation.

There are often cases when drivers of personal cars are interested in whether they can drive if the diagnostic card has expired, but the compulsory motor liability insurance policy continues to be valid. Such circumstances are not considered a violation of the rules, but financial consequences may arise.

Why is technical inspection relevant today?

The legislator's requirements to conduct a mandatory technical inspection (diagnostics of the technical condition) of vehicles are a necessary measure. It is associated with a significant number of road accidents with severe or fatal consequences, which could not be prevented precisely because of technical feasibility.

In the USSR, control of passenger and freight vehicles was carried out under state control. Today, carriers are private companies that save their money on high-quality repairs of broken equipment and daily monitoring when releasing vehicles onto the line.

In this regard, mandatory semi-annual inspection is provided for the following types of vehicles:

• used as a taxi;
• passenger buses;
• vehicles with more than eight passenger seats (excluding the driver's seat);
• trucks equipped for the transport of dangerous goods.

Every year, owners are required to submit for diagnostic testing passenger cars that have been in use for more than seven years from the date of manufacture; from three to seven years - once every two years; up to three years are exempt from the procedure.

Important! Since 2012, in the absence of a valid diagnostic card, it is impossible to conclude an MTPL agreement.

What sanctions are applied for driving without a technical inspection?

To prevent the operation of vehicles without timely maintenance, administrative measures are used. They represent a system of compulsory measures carried out by authorized bodies in relation to individuals and legal entities to prevent (suppress) actions aimed at violating the law. In this case, the system is represented as follows:

1. The procedure for concluding MTPL agreements provides for the mandatory provision by the policyholder of a valid vehicle diagnostic test card. Without it, concluding a contract is impossible. Using cars without a vehicle license will result in an administrative penalty.
2. In the event of a culpable traffic accident during which the policy was valid and the diagnostic card was missing, the insurer will fulfill its obligations, but by way of recourse it can claim the amount of liability to third parties from the policy owner, since the car was not promptly checked for serviceability.
3. Detection of the fact of driving a vehicle with mandatory periodic maintenance without properly executed documents entails administrative liability for the driver.

Officials responsible for the operation of transport at enterprises, regardless of their form of ownership, are also brought to administrative responsibility.

The rules for passing a technical inspection this year are described in detail in the following article. You can also find out the fine for an expired MTPL policy on our website.

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