ZTL fine with a rented car

You pay only what you receive via registered letter, mailed by cops and that has your name written on.

Otherwise you risk of being asked to pay again.

Unless you receive a registered letter at the address the rental company gave cops, you owe zero. US collection agencies may claim otherwise, but no notification = no debt.

The amount will be 88 € plus the administrative fees and the mailing costs to your home country. Less a 30% discount if you pay within 5 days from the arrival of the registered letter.

I have received a ticket for ZTL violation in Matera from the rental company in July. The fine was for 88 EUR.

Did the rental co. send an actual citation from the police? Or simply notify you they had given your info to the police ?

How did you get the info to find your citation online ?

Having read numerous accounts of "I got a ticket..." , yours is the first account that related being able to view the ticket online, before receiving something in the mail from the police agency.

From what you were able to see online, did it show a graduated scale of how much the fine increases over time?

Thanks for replies.
I live in EU (Bulgaria).

To the question above - the rental company sent to me the fine itself for information. They told me they will provide my data to authorities and not to pay until I receive it by post.
The name on the fine they sent me is the name of the company and not mine.
Regarding where I check online - there are instructions sent by Matera Police to the rental company about payment methods.
One of them is a web portal where you can pay some administrative fees, including fines.
When initially I checked in July it showed 88 EUR, now it is showing 170 EUR.

The name on the fine they sent me is the name of the company and not mine.

So there is no fine in your name and you owe nothing. For now. Paying a fine that will be cancelled and that has somebody's else name on, won't stop the process.

Feel free to pay also my fines if you really want to! : D

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I am just worried about paying much more later. But you are right after all. I haven't seen ticket with my name so far.

Don't pay until you receive the registered mail fine to your name at your home.

I don't know about the City of Matera, but many Italian jurisdictions choose not to pursue the payment of fines with foreign residents because in many instances they end up collecting nothing anyhow, so it's extra administrative cost for them.

Some other jurisdictions (like the City of Florence) use international collection agencies to collect fines, but those debts are usually not enforceable in foreign courts, so the collection agencies can only hope to collect because of they persistent harassing attitude which scares some people into paying.

In the United States debts stemming from traffic fines are not reportable to Credit Bureaus, therefore not paying the collection agency does not result in the personal credit being compromised. I don't know how it works in Bulgaria.