In order to strengthen the fight against road civism in Côte d’Ivoire, the government has adopted a decree regulating the use of roads open to public traffic.
According to the Transport of Cote d’Ivoire the light of this decree consulted Monday, August 29, 2022 noted that this legal device introduces several new sanctions against “reckless and outlaw” drivers.
Our correspondent in Abidjan says this regulatory text provides, in its new article 145, the allocation to each driving license of a capital point, which will be subject to reduction in the event of an offense committed by its holder.
Furthermore, the Ivorian Transport Ministry emphasizes that the driving license loses its validity and must be withdrawn from its holder, when the total points allocated have been exhausted.
“The driver whose license has been withdrawn in this way can only obtain a new one after having passed the tests for obtaining its specifies article 131 of this decree”, a statement from the country transport ministry added.
As for the new article 246, it indicates ”Any vehicle involved in a traffic offense may be subject to impoundment in a place designated by an administrative authority to receive it”.
With regard to the new article 257 of this decree, it stipulates that “are also constitutive of contravention traffic offenses and are punished as such by a fine of 10,000 FCFA (US$ 83.72 to 100,000 FCFA ($ 837.18) inclusive and imprisonment up to two months, or one of these penalties” the statement said.
Among these sanctions by the new article 257, the refusal to obey a summons to stop emanating from an official or agent charged to note the infringements with the traffic police and the obstruction of the public road by any vehicle, which prevents or reduces the freedom or safety of passage.
As part of the fight against road in civism and traffic accidents, the Ivorian executive adopted in the Council of Ministers on August 03, decree n ° 2022-631 of August 03, 2022 modifying decree N ° 2016-864 of November 3, 2016 regulating the use of roads open to public traffic.
A regulatory text that now uses information and communication technologies (ICT).
This decree also harmonizes the fines related to traffic offenses while indicating the various contraventions relating to the Highway Code.
