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Ontario set fines
Set fines are what settles an offence out of court. The rows that carry no set fine are printed as such — there is no amount, and this table does not invent one.
Draft for review. Every figure on this page is transcribed from the instrument cited beside it; the reviewer of record has not signed the values off. Check the cited provision before relying on an amount.
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The set fine table
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| Item | Offence | Provision | Relative severity | Set fine — settle out of court | Demerit table item |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 340. | Speeding | 128 | No settlement | No out-of-court settlement is available | No demerit table item |
| 341. | Careless driving | 130(1) | Higher | $400.00 | 2 |
| 491. | Race a motor vehicle | 172(1) | No settlement | No out-of-court settlement is available | 3 |
| 545. | Fail to remain | 200(1)(a) | No settlement | No out-of-court settlement is available | 1 |
| 1. | Drive motor vehicle, no permit | 7(1)(a) | Lower | $125.00 | No demerit table item |
| 3. | Drive motor vehicle, no plates | 7(1)(b)(i) | Lower | $85.00 | No demerit table item |
| 84. | Drive motor vehicle — no licence | 32(1) | Moderate | $260.00 | No demerit table item |
| 222. | Drive — hand-held communication device | 78.1(1) | Higher | $500.00 | 43 |
| 223. | Drive — hand-held entertainment device | 78.1(2) | Higher | $500.00 | No demerit table item |
| 276. | Drive with seat belt removed | 106(1) | Lower | $200.00 | No demerit table item |
| 279. | Driver — fail to properly wear seat belt | 106(2) | Lower | $200.00 | 32 |
| 284. | Drive while child passenger not properly secured | 106(4)(b) | Lower | $200.00 | 33.2 |
| 348. | Disobey stop sign — fail to stop | 136(1)(a) | Lower | $85.00 | 8 |
| 348.1 | Disobey stop sign — fail to stop — community safety zone | 136(1)(a) | Lower | $150.00 | 8 |
| 412. | Red light — fail to stop | 144(18) | Moderate | $260.00 | 8 |
| 412.1 | Red light — fail to stop — community safety zone | 144(18) | Higher | $400.00 | 8 |
| 358. | Fail to yield to pedestrian on roadway | 140(1)(c) | Moderate | $300.00 | 7.1 |
| 359. | Fail to yield to pedestrian on roadway — community safety zone | 140(1)(c) | Higher | $600.00 | 7.1 |
| 463. | Follow too closely | 158(1) | Lower | $85.00 | 15 |
| 463.1 | Follow too closely — community safety zone | 158(1) | Lower | $120.00 | 15 |
| 507.5 | Fail to stop for school bus — signal lights — meeting | 175(11) | Higher | $400.00 | 14 |
| 70. | Operate commercial motor vehicle — no valid CVOR certificate | 16(2) | Moderate | $260.00 | No demerit table item |
| 555. | Obstruct officer | 225(5) | Moderate | $260.00 | No demerit table item |
| 103.10 | Novice driver — presence of drug | 44.2(4) | Lower | $85.00 | No demerit table item |
| 34.1 | Fail to provide valid information package for inspection | 11.1(1) | Lower | $140.00 | No demerit table item |
Background
Where these amounts come from
These are SET FINES: the amount that settles an offence out of court. They come from a consolidated set fine schedule published by the Office of the Chief Justice under the Provincial Offences Act, and that consolidation describes itself as prepared for convenience of reference only — the authoritative documents are the individual set fine orders it consolidates. This site attributes the figures to the consolidation and never to the Highway Traffic Act, which does not state them.
The lettered sub-schedules run A, B, D, E and F: an overweight scale and the four speeding schedules. There is no Schedule C — the letter is skipped on the face of the document, which is a fact about the lettering and not a gap here.
The rows below are a representative slice rather than the whole schedule, chosen around the offences people actually arrive asking about, with the item number an offence notice prints beside each one.
Findings
The rows with no amount
Some rows carry no dollar figure at all — 113 of them in the full schedule. They are not zero and they are not missing data: no out-of-court settlement exists for those offences, and they are prosecuted in court under the statutory range the Act states.
Speeding at 50 km/h or more over the limit is in the same position from the other direction: every zone's schedule prints “No out of court settlement” in its top band, so the single most-asked question about Ontario speeding has no dollar answer at all.
ONTARIO · INFERENCE
The abbreviation on those rows is read, not defined
This site reads it as meaning “no set fine”, on the strength of the one place in the same document where the phrase is spelled out. No document read for this site defines the short form directly, so the equivalence is labelled an inference wherever it is used.
OCJ consolidated set fine schedule; Schedule A (spelled-out analogue)
ONTARIO · FINDING
Driving without insurance is not priced on this site
The schedule is Highway Traffic Act offences only, and the Act that creates the insurance offence is not among the documents read for this site. Rather than estimate it, this site leaves it out and says so.
OCJ consolidated set fine schedule (HTA offences only)
ONTARIO · Background
One points row covers eleven provisions at once
The demerit item for stop signs and signal lights cites several subsections of one section, a stop-sign requirement, municipal by-laws and a federal regulation in a single cell. Where it is printed here the whole citation string is printed, rather than compressed into one clean-looking section number.
O. Reg. 339/94, Table, item 8
Ontario licensing
Ontario licensing, three pages
Scope
What this site covers
Covered
Ontario and Québec only. Those are the two jurisdictions whose instruments have been read for this site, and every figure here belongs to one of them.
Unmeasured here
Eleven further provinces and territories are UNMEASURED here — that means they have not been read for this site, not that they are absent from Canada’s fine landscape. Nothing on this site is a national claim.
Out of scope
Municipal by-law offences — parking above all — are priced by roughly four hundred municipalities and are out of scope. This site prices provincial offences.
Next step
Start with the number on your own notice
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