A new law in Utah limits the amount of revenue cities can earn from traffic tickets, aiming to prevent over-reliance on fines for funding.
Sometimes cities seem eager to dish out traffic tickets to pad the budget. However, the Utah Legislature passed a law stating that revenue from traffic fines may not exceed 25% of a local government's total general fund revenue for a fiscal year. The Utah State Auditor was recently tasked with tracking how much each of Utah 's cities gains from citations.
\The Legislature added this test because they were concerned about towns using traffic fees as a tool to generate revenue for their general fund, said Seth Oveson, local government manager for the Utah State Auditor's Office. \If a city earns more than 25% of its revenue from traffic tickets, the overages are given to the Utah Department of Transportation. \The state auditor's office found that all Utah cities were in compliance for 2023 and 2024. Of those with the highest percentage of revenue from traffic fines, many are small towns. But it might not be because they're dishing out more tickets -- small towns have smaller overall budgets
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