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Rule 6.490 Correction and Reduction of Penalty

Part IV: Traffic Infractions

(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.