Submitted by Anima_EB t3_10r4obs in springfieldMO
Haven't gotten a ticket in over a decade. I don't know how things have changed with the courts. It's a joke expired tags ticket. Yknow the kind the city is "cracking down on". Do I have to appear in court or can I just give them my money to take care of it?
The court fees are $45?! Yeah the only problem is I can't afford to actually get my tags renewed at the moment. I wasn't planning on not going to court, but since all they clearly want is my money I was hoping I could just give them the money to leave me alone lol.
If you don’t pay and you don’t show up, you’ll end up with a warrant. You’re better off showing up and taking care of it.
Oh yeah I always planned on taking care of it. I was just hoping I didn't have to take a day and go down to court in person.
Well if you go online, to casenet, you should be able to pay for it up until your initial appearance. You have until midnight the day before your court date to pay it online, if you wanna go that route.
i had an option on my ticket to pay online and skip court. i wouldnt suggest it though because it was $120
Yikes, on top of the ticket I assume?
it was actually $149.93. $50.50 for the ticket, $95.50 for the court fee (didnt even go to court so idk), and $3.43 for processing fee.
Whelp sounds like I'm just gonna have to go in. Thanks for the information regardless.
Just pay on Missouri Casenet it's a written plea of guilt and you can pay online
Much appreciated.
Thanks for all the downvotes bootlickers ;)
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It's almost like we have an insane amount of vehicle infrastructure that just sucks up money that could be used elsewhere.
Yeah, also love how they leverage it into bullshit tickets like this. And yet we still don't have enough funds to pay DOT to clear roads apparently lol
honeyliz03 t1_j6tpcsl wrote
i got an expired tags ticket last year and all i had to do was go to court, explain why i had expired tags (i used the good ol "i'm in college and my parents take care of this stuff and i wasn't aware of the deadline" excuse...which was true), show the judge that i updated my registration, and i had the charge dropped and i just needed to pay court fees ($45).
avoiding court isn't really optional and isn't worth skipping for such a minor thing. i would just get it over with and if you bring updated paperwork, hopefully the judge will be nice and do the same thing.
tldr: yes you have to go to court and pay the charge and court fee