Failure to Respond to a Violation Notice

(1) When a registered owner of a motor vehicle, except a lessee or a rentee, consistent with the provisions of 703 CMR 6.06, accrues not less than three Violation Notices by an Enforcing Authority for which said owner fails to pay the fine contained in a Violation Notice or fails to appeal the Violation Notice in accordance with 703 CMR 6.05(2), such Enforcing Authority may enter into a payment plan with the registered owner, allow for a financial-hardship waiver of the fines, or submit a Non-renewal Notice to the Registrar. Any payment plan or hardship waiver shall be permitted only pursuant to objective and consistent criteria in a written policy established by the Enforcing Authority. Upon receipt of a Non-renewal Notice, the Registrar shall not issue or renew the registered owner’s motor vehicle registration until after notification from the Enforcing Authority from whom the Registrar received the Non-renewal Notice that all fines owed pursuant to 703 CMR 6.00 have been paid. (2) An Enforcing Authority shall notify the Registrar if a lessee or rentee has accrued not less than five unresolved Violation Notices with an Enforcing Authorities pursuant to 703 CMR 6.06. Upon receipt by the Registrar of such notice under 703 CMR 6.07, the Registrar shall: (a) suspend and not renew the license of the lessee or rentee to operate a motor vehicle in the commonwealth in a form and manner determined by the Registrar until the Registrar receives notification from the applicable Enforcing Authorities that all fines owed by the lessee or rentee pursuant to 703 CMR 6.00 have been paid; or (b) suspend the right to operate of a lessee or rentee not licensed in the commonwealth in a form and manner determined by the Registrar until the Registrar receives notification from the applicable Enforcing Authorities that all fines owed by the lessee or rentee pursuant to 703 CMR 6.00 have been paid. (3) An additional $20.00 charge payable to the Registrar shall be assessed and collected by the Enforcing Authorit to be transferred to the registry of motor vehicles as part of the non-renewal process. (4) The Enforcing Authority shall notify the Registrar immediately when the relevant fines and charges that are the basis for a notice to the Registrar under 703 CMR 6.06(4) have been paid; provided, however, that a certified receipt of full and final payment from the Enforcing Authority issuing a violation shall also serve as legal notice to the Registrar that a violation has been disposed of in accordance with 700 CMR 6.06. The certified receipt shall be printed in such form as the Registrar may approve.