Local government units are ordered to stop issuing their own traffic violation tickets and confiscating driver’s licenses of violators following a Supreme Court decision that mandates the use of the single ticketing system of the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA). Alfredo Benjamin Caguioa, the Associate Justice who penned the decision, cites the MMDA’s Joint Metro Traffic Circular 12-01 from 2012.
It reads: ‘The Land Transportation Office (LTO) issues Temporary Operator’s Permit (TOP), issues Traffic Violation Receipt (TVR), and LGUs issue their respective Ordinance Violation Receipt (OVR) for traffic violations. Moreover, the TOP, TVR, and OVRs are being issued with varying fines and penalties for the same traffic violation, and under different procedure in apprehension, payment of fine, and redemption of license/plat
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