10/1/09-The House Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice Committee voted early this year to kill a bill that was intended to prevent law enforcement officers from going on ticket writing sprees.
Utah law now sends 65 percent of revenue from traffic citations to the Legislature. The money goes for use in 13 programs. The rest is split evenly between the municipality where the ticket was issued and the law enforcement agency that issued the ticket.
HB227 would have prohibited all law enforcement agencies in the state from setting traffic ticket quotas. The protection also would have applied to complaints and warning notices.