The Government is preparing an emergency ordinance to this end, which provides an exception to the law whereby fines given to companies are transferred to the state budget, while traffic fines go to the local budgets.
The act says that 70% of the value of earnings from fines given to companies for various traffic violations will go to CNADNR and will be used only to finance road construction, upgrade, maintenance and repair projects, and to guarantee and repay foreign and domestic loans taken for this purpose.
The fines that will boost CNADNR’s budget will be for violations committed by companies, including: peddling on public roads, driving on public roads with mud on the vehicle’s wheels, construction materials dropping during transport, installing advertising billboards at below the legal distance from an intersection entry/exit.
CNADNR will receive 70% of the earnings from fines for constructors who fail to observe the minimum legal distance between the road and the building; who erect structures that endanger the road’s stability, traffic safety or obstruct road sign visibility; do not install adequate signals during maintenance work; cause detours; do not provide regular maintenance for buildings located near a public road, do not repair damaged access points and do not close down points open without authorization.
The national roads company will also be entitled to earnings from fines for companies that set up parking spaces on the inside and outside of dangerous curves, deliver divisible goods in vehicles without tarps, breach traffic restrictions in certain days or times of the day, do not have weighing scales in their loading points, do not issue a scale ticket for each vehicle or do not keep records on tickets issued in the last five years.
In addition, the share of funds directed to CNADNR’s budget from fines for driving without a paid vignette will be increased to 70% from 25%, to finance national road projects.