What Threatens an Unpaid Fine
The offender must pay the fine within 30 days of delivery of the copy of the decision or, for an on-the-spot fine, of the penalty receipt. Once that window has run out, a surcharge is imposed for the voluntary fulfilment that never happened: double the amount of the imposed fine, but not more than 500 GEL. The surcharge is an independent payment obligation, and its clock starts on the day the payment period expires.
For the violations listed in the corresponding part of the Code, the person has a further chance: within an additional 30 days after the expiry of the first window, the fine may be paid together with the surcharge. That is the last window that protects against a driving-licence suspension — which is why its exact calculation and documentary fixation becomes contested terrain from day one.