Florence · ZTL fines
How long after the trip does a ZTL fine arrive for a foreigner?
If nothing has arrived after a few weeks, it does not mean nothing will. Here is how long it can take and how to be ready.
Even after a year
People who live abroad often think that if the fine has not arrived within a few weeks, it will not arrive at all. This is not so: for foreign customers the notice can arrive even after twelve months. Usually it arrives after about six months, when the trip is a distant memory.
With a rental car the road is longer
If you were driving a rental car, the first notice goes to the rental company, which is obliged by the Highway Code to pass to the Polizia Municipale the details of the renter, that is, yours. Only then does the Polizia Municipale reissue the notice in your name: from that moment you have 60 days to ask for its cancellation. See ZTL fine with a rental car.
How to be ready
This is why it is worth keeping the parking ticket of the garage for a whole year (why keep the ticket). When the fine arrives, do not pay it at once if you think there was a mistake: contact the garage and send the ticket. The steps are in ZTL fine for foreign drivers.
ZTL fines: all guides
ZTL fine for foreign drivers · When does a ZTL fine arrive? (you are here) · Why keep your garage parking ticket · ZTL fine with a rental car · Rental company letter or real fine? · Pay the ZTL fine or appeal? · Can the garage appeal for me? · Prefetto or Giudice di Pace? · How to appeal a ZTL fine · Rental company fees for fines
Questions from international drivers
How long after the trip can a ZTL fine arrive?
For foreign customers even after twelve months, although usually after about six.
What changes with a rental car?
The first notice goes to the rental company, which must pass your details to the Polizia Municipale; the notice is then reissued in your name and the 60 days start from then.
What should I do when it arrives?
Do not pay it at once if you think there was a mistake: contact the garage and send the parking ticket.