Ticket costs, verified
What traffic tickets actually cost
By Mario Bailey · Data updated June 2026
The internet is full of guessed ticket prices. Every figure here traces to a statute, an official fee schedule, or hearing records we process ourselves, with the citation on the page.
By violation, state by state
NYC idling summonses: the one we have the data on
Our home turf. We maintain the only continuously updated dataset of NYC idling enforcement, so for this violation we can tell you what each choice costs from 326,209 real hearing records, not the statute's theory.
Source: NYC Open Data, OATH Hearings Division Case Status · DEP idling summonses · as of June 2026 · methodology
Got an NYC idling summons?
What happens next and what defaulting, admitting, or contesting actually costs.
Contest or pay?
The decision, run through the outcomes in the case records.
Idling fine schedules
What idling tickets cost in NYC and beyond.
The dataset
Every number's origin: monthly-refreshed OATH hearing records, downloadable.
General legal information, not legal advice. State pages carry their own citations and verification dates.