On May 29, Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin made a number of changes to his decree of April 11 regarding access control in the capital. The main point of the amendments is to prolong the digital passes previously issued to residents of the city. Their validity, according to the decree, was limited to the date of April 30.
Movement by the rules
All working digital passes issued by April 30 will be renewed automatically until May 4. To extend their validity until May 11 or issue new permits, citizens must do this by May 4 on their own in the most convenient way: on the Moscow City Hall website, via SMS to the short number 7377, or by calling the unified informational government of Moscow +7 (495) 777 -77-77.
For this, it is necessary to provide the license plate of the car or the number of the Troika transport card.
A digital pass must be issued at least five hours before the first trip - otherwise the Troika card simply will not work, and the driver will automatically be considered an intruder. Children under 14 years old do not need to apply for a permit.
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The Moscow Department of Information Technology (DIT) previously explained that for those who move around the capital without a pass, on the basis of official certificates (military personnel, law enforcement officers, judges, officials who have state-established certificates, as well as journalists and security guards) no additional information, in addition to previously presented, you do not need to enter, unless they require updating.
At the same time, all the information presented during registration is checked, and if they are unreliable, the pass will be canceled. The same applies to the situation when an error was made when entering the data.
“Passes canceled due to the provision of incorrect or inaccurate information will not be restored. All data specified during the registration of work passes are subject to mandatory verification, including in the databases of federal authorities. If any information was indicated incorrectly or incorrectly, the pass will be canceled, ”TASS was told on Thursday by the DIT press service in response to a question about complaints by citizens about the mass cancellation of digital passes.
In addition to work passes, two types of others are issued in the capital.
To travel to medical institutions, a pass can be issued daily, but it is issued only for one day to travel to a specific institution.
Also, citizens can obtain a pass for a trip for personal purposes, but corresponding to the high-availability regime (to the store, train station, cottage, and so on). You can get such permission to travel to and from your destination twice a week, the pass is valid during the day.
How to fine
Violators of self-isolation in the capital are attracted under art. 3.18.1 Administrative Code of Moscow, which appeared in the law on April 2, 2020. According to paragraph 2 of the article, the offender faces a fine of four thousand rubles, and if the violation is committed repeatedly or at the moment when the person was driving the car, five thousand rubles.
At the same time, it’s still possible to fine for driving five thousand rubles with the help of road cameras only in Moscow - the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region proposed to extend this practice to the whole country this week by making such amendments to the State Duma of the CAO RF.
Sobyanin’s decree of April 29 also states that in the absence of a digital badge, if this fact is detected using road cameras, the owner of the vehicle is administratively liable.
In addition, the changes affected owners of cars with foreign license plates, which now need to provide more of their data in order to obtain a pass. This category of motorists can issue a pass from April 30 only using the site of the capital's city hall.
In a chamber setting
Monitoring of compliance with the access control regime on roads with the help of automatic complexes for fixing traffic violations was introduced on April 22. The city authorities took such measures in connection with the fact that, despite the permit regime introduced since April 15, traffic on the capital’s roads, although it had sharply decreased, still remained quite large.
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The statement on the upcoming use of photo and video recording systems, which Sergei Sobyanin made on April 18, caused a heated discussion in social networks and a great resonance in the media. In addition, claims were made by Senator Andrei Klishas and State Duma deputy Vyacheslav Lysakov. The latter, like a number of lawyers and car experts, insist that punishing drivers for not having a permit with the help of road cameras is against the law. At the same time, the city authorities emphasize that there are all legal grounds for this.
It is noteworthy that during the first three days after the introduction of a control system using cameras on the roads of the capital, a total of almost 600 thousand cars were recorded, the drivers of which did not apply for digital passes.
The metropolitan motorists became aware of the first few fines from the cameras on April 28 - car owners told about them in social networks.
Unanswered questions
At the same time, one of the main questions of the townspeople remains open - whether a violation will be recorded by a specific car once a day or from each camera that will fix it, as sources in law enforcement agencies confidently reported.
Given the density of automatic systems on the roads, in the latter case, this threatens fines of tens and hundreds of thousands of rubles per trip.
There is no official answer to this question yet - on Thursday, RT Department of Transport Department press service advised to contact the Moscow Coronavirus Operational Headquarters, and there they redirected the question back to the department.
According to RT, the final clarity with this issue may come next week, but so far the first fined have received only one receipt per trip.
The fact that motorists will be fined no more than once a day was previously reported by Kommersant.
Experts interviewed by RT believe that the city authorities, for various reasons, are not in a hurry to massively send fines to cameras to citizens.
“From April 22 to 24, the cameras revealed violations of access control by 3 billion rubles. Last year, all the cameras in Moscow revealed traffic violations for this amount for about a month and a half, ”said Peter Shkumatov, coordinator of the Blue Bucket community, RT.
According to him, "everyone understands that the mass distribution of such" letters of happiness "in the current economic situation, growing unemployment will cause a storm of indignation."
“Of course, these protests are not needed by the authorities, hence the slight softening of rhetoric against violators who are not so much threatened with punishment, but more persuaded to issue permits, since it is objectively easy to do so. In addition, among these hundreds of thousands of cars without passes there are operational vehicles of various special services, tens of thousands of them. Sometimes they simply do not have the right to somehow "shine" them in bases somewhere. Therefore, there are a lot of questions and nuances with fines, ”adds Shkumatov.
Problems recovered
According to RT, Muscovites who have been ill with coronavirus or were in mandatory quarantine after returning from abroad are now facing problems.
There are cases when, after all restrictive measures have expired, their cars have not been removed from a specialized base and after leaving the city they are stopped at the nearest traffic police post, subjecting them to lengthy checks that result in motorists being released.
How to solve this problem, police and officials can not explain to citizens.
“At the same time, when I was still ill, for the sake of the experiment I was able to issue a pass on the city hall’s website without any problems, and no one has canceled it yet,” complains RT a resident of the capital who had been ill with coronavirus, who after recovering and leaving the city for about an hour proved his cops who have the right to drive.
RT sent a request to DIT to clarify the situation.