They will beat you with rubles

The President signed a law abolishing the calculation of fines in the minimum wage

Motorists who have violated traffic rules, and other citizens who have somehow encountered administrative justice, should forget about the phrase “minimum wage” . From now on, fines for offenses will be calculated not in abstract minimum wages, but in specific rubles. On Saturday, Vladimir Putin affixed his signature to a law introducing appropriate changes to the Code of Administrative Offenses - “for all elements of administrative offenses of the Special Part of the Code.” Thus, Article 3.5 of the Code of Administrative Offenses in the new edition states: “An administrative fine... is established for citizens in an amount not exceeding 5 thousand rubles; for officials - 50 thousand rubles; for legal entities - 1 million rubles.”

As the Vremya Novostei newspaper has already reported , the “monetization” of fines was not limited to simply replacing the minimum wage with an equivalent amount of money. “These are not just technical changes - we are talking about tightening administrative practices, increasing the minimum fines exactly twice,” explained the essence of the legislative innovations initiated by United Russia in a conversation with a Vremya Novostey correspondent, an independent State Duma deputy, leader of the Motorists Movement. Russia Victor Pokhmelkin. In particular, if previously the minimum fine was 50 rubles, now you will have to pay a hundred for not wearing a seat belt or crossing the street in the wrong place. Previously, for exceeding the speed limit of up to 20 km/h, you could get off with a warning (at least officially), but according to the new edition of the Code of Administrative Offences, the driver will be required to collect 100 rubles, and if the speed exceeds the established speed by 40-60 km/h, you will have to pay 200 --300 rubles.

The authors of the document, members of the United Russia faction Vladimir Pligin, Alexander Moskalets, Alexander Kharitonov and Alexander Strelnikov, motivated their initiative by the fact that “the determination of the amount of administrative fines in the minimum wage is illogical, and the conditional amount of money used for these purposes (100 rubles) has nothing to do with the currently established minimum wage.” Let us recall that the previous mention of the minimum wage was removed from tax and criminal legislation. “In fact, to the extent that it was before, the calculation of penalties in “minimum amounts” is no longer used anywhere,” one of the co-authors of the now adopted law, deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Construction, Alexander Moskalets, explained to Vremya Novostei.

According to Mr. Pokhmelkin, in the original version of the bill it was really only about converting the minimum wage into rubles, but later legislators quietly pushed through the increase in fines. Let us note that the amendments to the administrative legislation were adopted with enviable speed: on June 6, the bill was adopted by the State Duma and approved by the Federation Council on June 13.

Let us remind you that in parallel, deputies are considering another document that directly concerns motorists - draft amendments to Part 12 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (“Administrative offenses in the field of road traffic”), which also involves changes in the amount of fines. The Duma members are in no hurry with this bill; it is not planned to be considered in the near future. Mr. Moskalets, in a conversation with a Vremya Novostey correspondent, called for not mixing these two bills. “If the first one changes the entire regime of the Code of Administrative Offenses, the second one concerns only solving issues of strengthening road safety,” the deputy emphasized.

Mikhail MOSHKIN