Driver Licence Confiscation by Traffic Enforcer

[QALAK]

Did you experience that an enforcer confiscate your driver licence for a simple traffic violation?

Please share your experience and thought.

[JJ All Day]

Posting MMDA Regulation for such a case, for guidance.

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Driver's license cannot be confiscated by a Traffic Enforcer during traffic apprehensions except on the following situations:

1. The driver was involved in a traffic accident

2. The driver has accumulated three (3) or more unsettled violations

3. The driver has been apprehended for the following violations:

Allowing another person to use driver's license
Broken sealing wire
Broken taximeter seal
Colorum operation (cargo/passenger vehicle)
Driving against traffic
Fake driver's license
Fake/altered taximeter seal
Fake/altered sealing wire
Fast/defective/non-operational/tampered taxi meter
Flagged up meter
Illegal or unauthorized counter-flow
Illegal transfer of plates/tags/stickers
Joined/reconnected sealing wire
No driver's ID
Ignoring Organized Bus Route (OBR) interval timers (for 2nd offense)
Skipping or bypassing designated OBR terminals or loading bays (for 2nd offense)
Operating on contractual basis
Out of line operation
Overcharging (with or without conductor) (for the 2nd offense)
Overspeeding
Refusal to convey passengers to destination/trip-cutting (Taxis and Public Utility Vehicles)
Refusal to render service to public (Taxis and Public Utility Vehicles)
Tampered sealing wire
Tampered taximeter seal
Tampering of OR/CR/CPC & other documents (spurious documents)
Undue preference/unjust discrimination
Using motor vehicle in commission of crime

The above-mentioned administrative violations also require a minimum of 2 hours seminar (for the drivers) at the Traffic Academy.

However, any driver who has committed three (3) or more unpaid violations, whether administrative or moving, shall also be subject to attending seminars, whose length shall be based on the results of the diagnostic exam (exam that will determine the contents of the seminar progress), which will be administered by the Agency.

*Note: If the license is to be confiscated, the Traffic Enforcer should inform the driver of the reason/s for the confiscation and the ticket validity.

If the driver refuses to surrender his driver's license, his plate may be detached pursuant to Section 74 & 75, MC 89-105.