[smokingfrog]

After being issued the citation, the officer wrote that Ferrell proceeded to drive north in her Kia Sedona minivan after declining to pay the fine or return to Taos to contest it before a judge.

Is this the way it works in NM? You have to immediately pay the fine or plead your case to a judge? I'm assuming this would only apply to an out-of-state driver.

[dennisw]

That’s the crux in my opinion. She was surprised she couldn’t deal with the ticket later. I read exactly what you read.

This is small town New Mexico where they need the revenue, where they can get hold of the judge you must see to contest it right away as in now, or you pay the fine on the spot to the policeman. She refused both options. Instead she drove away

[MarMema]

Good Find. Now it begins to make more sense.

[Rusty0604]

Well, that explains some (not all) of her actions.

[Uncle Chip]

You have to immediately pay the fine or plead your case to a judge?

I got one of those in Arizona.

The fine was so cheap that I ordered two of them because I was coming back the same way.