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If you are a motorist in the Philippines, you might get confused if MMDA traffic officers are allowed to confiscate your driver's license if you commit a traffic violation.
On MMDA's official Twitter account, a netizen named Anjo Coronado asked them about this concern. The MMDA replied by attaching a list of violations that warrants the confiscation of the driver's license:
- The driver is involved in a traffic accident.
- The driver has accumulated three or more unsettled violations.
- The driver has been apprehended for any of the administrative violations:
· Allowing another person to use driver's license
· Broken sealing wire
· Broken taximeter seal
· Colorum operation (cargo/passenger vehicle)
· Driving against traffic
· Fake driver's license
· Fake/altered taximeter seal
· Fake/altered sealing wire
· Fast/defective/non-operational/tampered taxi meter
· Flagged up meter
· Illegal or unauthorized counter-flow
· Illegal transfer of plates/tags/stickers
· Joined/reconnected sealing wire
· No driver's ID
· Ignoring Organized Bus Route (OBR) interval timers (for 2nd offense)
· Skipping or bypassing designated OBR terminals or loading bays (for 2nd offense)
· Operating on contractual basis
· Out of line operation
· Overcharging (with or without conductor, for the 2nd offense)
· Overspeeding
· Refusal to convey passengers to destination/trip-cutting (Taxis and Public Utility Vehicles)
· Refusal to render service to public (Taxis and Public Utility Vehicles)
· Tampered sealing wire
· Tampered taximeter seal
· Tampering of OR/CR/CPC and other documents (spurious documents)
· Undue preference/unjust discrimination
· Using motor vehicle in commission of crime
One of the notable question of Coronado: "If the violation is coding or wrong turn, do you confiscate the license?"
"No, unless the driver is arrogant," the MMDA replied.
Update: MMDA apologized for the confusion it delivers from their conversation with Coronado. They've posted in their Twitter account that they are strict and have a clear guidelines on when a driver's license will be confiscated. It is according to the list of violations that warrants confiscation (posted above) and an arrogant behavior of the motorist is not included.
Source: TopGear, MMDA Twitter Account
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