Q: Do points on a driver's license go by violation date or conviction date.
I had a minor speeding ticket from 2007 that I never worried about paying because my driver's license got suspended for a non traffic suspension and I never worried about paying the fine and I'm about to get my license reinstated next month. I paid the speeding violation today so will I have point's on my license when it officially get's reinstated or will my record be clear of all points since the speeding violation happened over 10 years ago.
A: The points are assessed from the date of violation, not the date you pay or are found guilty in court. So, on your current record, you will have no current points. Points that have been assessed in the past will have an asterisk next to them, indicating that they are not counted in your current point total. However, if you had other points on your driving record within two years of the date of this violation, then the new points can be added to those (even though they are also expired and not current), and if they add up to 8 or more points within any two year period, the MVA can trigger a suspension notice based on accumulation of points even though they are not current and even though they were all assessed many years ago. This may be an unlikely scenario, but I have had clients pay a slew of old tickets from a decade or more ago, and the point totals triggered a suspension hearing. Otherwise, if you didn't have a lot of points on your record back in 2006-2009, then that would not be an issue.
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