The Legal Map of Fleet Fines — What Article 125 Establishes
For a transport company, road fines are not isolated episodes — they are a constant operational risk that raises questions across dozens of documents, deadlines and circles of liability. Article 125 of the Code of Administrative Offences is precisely the norm under which most fines on drivers are written, and knowing its sanctions exactly is the foundation of fleet budgeting. Otherwise the company pays more than it should — not only because of the violations themselves, but because of mismanaged deadlines and discounts.
Article 125 sets its sanctions part by part, and each must be counted separately: exceeding the established speed by more than 15 but not more than 40 km/h — 50 GEL; exceeding it by more than 40 km/h — 300 GEL; speeding committed by a person carrying out regular passenger carriage within municipal boundaries, intercity regular passenger carriage or international regular passenger carriage — 400 GEL; violating a road sign, a traffic controller or right-of-way rules — 100 GEL; violating the rules towards pedestrians — 40 GEL, and its repetition within 1 year — 150 GEL; disregarding a no-stopping or no-parking sign — 10 GEL, and within the administrative boundaries of Tbilisi municipality — 50 GEL; parking in a space designated for persons with disabilities — 200 GEL; driving in a lane designated for route vehicles — 100 GEL.
Separate note deserves the cases where liability reaches the enterprise directly: driving in violation of the rules for fixing a recognition sign provides for a fine of 50 GEL imposed on the driver or the enterprise. The aggravated compositions also matter for budgeting: speeding that created an accident situation — 400 GEL; speeding with light damage to property or a person's body — 600 GEL; organized blocking of a road in a city — 1 000 GEL together with a 1-year suspension of the right to drive; transit movement within the administrative boundaries of Tbilisi — 500 GEL. This list is not exhaustive — article 125 is far broader — but these compositions form the bulk of a fleet's fine mass.
The 20 Percent Discount and the 10 Calendar Days
Article 268¹ of the Code governs how the Ministry of Internal Affairs notifies a person of a fine: the information is sent as a short text message or by another technical means, if the person's contact details exist in the ministry's database, and at the same time the copy of the decision or fine ticket is published on the ministry's official website. Part 4 of that article creates the single most important financial lever: if the offender pays the fine within 10 calendar days of receiving the information, the amount of the fine is reduced by 20 percent. If the fine is not paid within that window, the person loses the right to use this discount, and the discount does not extend to the execution of decisions adopted in connection with a complaint.
At fleet scale this means: every fine must be monitored with day-level precision, because even one wave of tickets left beyond the 10 calendar days creates a loss of more than 5 percent of that budget line. No other reduction exists in this mechanism — the Code establishes 20 percent and 10 calendar days, and expecting a discount outside these conditions is faulty planning. Building the monitoring routine around this single window is the cheapest compliance investment a fleet can make.
30 Days, a Surcharge up to 500 GEL and a Six-Month Suspension
The basic payment deadline is set by part 1 of article 290 of the Code: the offender must pay the fine within 30 days of delivery of the copy of the decision or, where fined on the spot, of delivery of the fine ticket. Where the decision is appealed or protested, the running of this period is suspended until delivery of the notice that the complaint or protest has been left unexamined. If the last day of the period falls on a weekend or public holiday, the first following working day is counted as its last day.
Part 3 of the note to article 125 sets the next stage: after the period for voluntary execution expires, a surcharge is imposed on the person at double the amount of the fine, but not more than 500 GEL. Part 1¹ of article 290 then opens an additional window: for a violation under article 125, the offender has the right to pay the fine together with the surcharge within 30 days of the expiry of the period determined by part 1. If the fine or the surcharge remains unpaid within that period too, the offender's right to drive the vehicle is suspended for the term provided by the relevant article — under the note to article 125 this means suspension for 6 months. Once the suspension term expires, the driver's right is restored, and sitting an exam for restoration is not mandatory.
Part 5 of the note to article 125 fixes the last important point: paying the fine, or having the fine replaced by suspension of the right to drive, does not release the person from paying the surcharge. Part 5 of article 290, in turn, builds the redemption mechanism: the decision on suspension is cancelled and the license is returned if the fine does not exceed 100 GEL and, before the suspension expires, the person pays double the fine and surcharge — or the fine exceeds 100 GEL and the person pays one and a half times the amount, but not more than 2 000 GEL. For a fleet this means that bringing a suspended driver back takes calculation and time — and that decision, too, must be driven by numbers and deadlines.