VTL 1172Not TBWD eligibleStop signs
Stop sign
Failure to stop at a stop sign.
Vehicle & Traffic Law 1172 — statutory text
Official source ↗(a) Except when directed to proceed by a police officer, every driver of a vehicle approaching a stop sign shall stop as required by section eleven hundred seventy-two-a of this article and after having stopped shall yield the right of way to any vehicle which has entered the intersection from another highway or which is approaching so closely on said highway as to constitute an immediate hazard during the time when such driver is moving across or within the intersection.
Quoted from the California Legislative Information website. The full section may contain additional subdivisions not reproduced here — click “Official source” for the complete text as currently in force.
Base fine
$150.00
Does not include court fees or assessments.
DMV points
3
Points raise your insurance.
Filing window
N/A
TBWD not available.
Not eligible for TBWD
New York does not currently offer a Trial by Written Declaration process. NY TVB requires a hearing; mail-in plea is limited to guilty admissions only. We won’t charge you for an ineligible filing.
Defenses our AI considers (15)
- Equipment fixed — correctable violationhistorical success ~80%Equipment violations (window tint, exhaust, lights, plates, wipers, etc.) are correctable in every supported state. Proof of repair signed by a qualified inspector resolves the citation administratively.
- Documentary cure — proof on date of citationhistorical success ~75%Many "failure to produce" charges (insurance, registration, license) are dismissed on proof the document existed and was valid on the date of citation. This is codified in most state fix-it / correctable-violation statutes.
- Supporting deposition not timely served (NY CPL § 100.25)historical success ~60%N.Y. CPL § 100.25(2) entitles a defendant in a traffic matter outside NYC TVB to a supporting deposition containing non-hearsay allegations establishing every element. Failure to provide it within 30 days of a timely request is a jurisdictional defect requiring dismissal.
- Sign obscured, missing, or recently changedhistorical success ~50%A driver cannot be held to a regulation that was not reasonably communicated. An obscured, damaged, missing, or recently-changed sign at the cited location is both a mistake-of-fact defense and a due-process notice defect.
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