Rule 6.490 Correction and Reduction of Penalty
Part IV: Traffic Infractions
Rule Text
(a) Correction of Penalty. An official may at any time correct an illegal penalty.
(b) penalty:
Reduction of Penalty. An official may reduce a legal
(1) within 180 days after its imposition, or thereafter with good cause shown;
(2) within 60 days after the appellate court issues a mandate affirming the judgment and/or penalty;
(3) within 60 days after the appellate court issues a mandate dismissing an appeal from the judgment and/or penalty; or
(4) if further appellate review is sought in a higher court or in successively higher courts, then within 60 days after the highest state or federal court to which a timely appeal has been taken under authority of law, or in which a petition for certiorari has been timely filed under authority of law, has entered an order of affirmance or an order dismissing the appeal and/or denying certiorari.