{"id":1440,"date":"2018-08-09T18:27:10","date_gmt":"2018-08-09T18:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boominteractivelearning.com\/toocooltrafficschool2\/?p=964"},"modified":"2018-08-09T18:27:10","modified_gmt":"2018-08-09T18:27:10","slug":"florida-uniform-citation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toocooltrafficschool.com\/florida-uniform-citation\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Uniform Citation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_wp_text]The technical term for a traffic ticket is a uniform traffic citation. Some tickets are handwritten on a yellow slip, but many will appear as they do in the photo on the right&#8211; as a white printout that is printed at the scene. Regardless of whether the Florida uniform traffic citation you receive is handwritten or printed, they both serve as a notice that you violated a law. Within 30 days, you must decide how you wish to proceed.<\/p>\n<h3>Your Options:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Pay the fine and accept the point penalty for the offense<\/li>\n<li>Pay the fine and elect traffic school to prevent points from being assessed against your driving record<\/li>\n<li>Elect a court hearing and contest the violation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1>How to Read a Florida Uniform Traffic Citation<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li>County where the ticket was issued\u00a0<b>(top left corner)<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Citation number\u00a0<b>(top right corner)<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Date that the ticket was issued\u00a0<b>(4th row from top)<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Information about the violation and officer comments\u00a0<b>(marked with an &#8220;X&#8221;)<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Identifies whether the ticket is considered civil or criminal, and whether a court appearance is necessary\u00a0<b>(lower portion of citation)<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_wp_text][vc_wp_text]<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-968 size-full\" title=\"Florida Uniform Citation\" src=\"https:\/\/toocooltrafficschool.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Florida-Uniform-Citation.png\" alt=\"Florida Uniform Citation\" width=\"334\" height=\"837\" \/>[\/vc_wp_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_wp_text]The technical term for a traffic ticket is a uniform traffic citation. Some tickets are handwritten on a yellow slip, but many will appear as they do in the photo on the right&#8211; as a white printout that is printed at the scene. Regardless of whether the Florida uniform traffic citation you receive is handwritten&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/toocooltrafficschool.com\/florida-uniform-citation\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Florida Uniform Citation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":985,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[25,19,32,33],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toocooltrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toocooltrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toocooltrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toocooltrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toocooltrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1440"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toocooltrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1440\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toocooltrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toocooltrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toocooltrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toocooltrafficschool.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}