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General Order #GO26-031 (effective January 1, 2026, in effect until December 31, 2027): the ability to pay tool is not for fine reductions after judgment, including after disposition by bail forfeiture, and the clerk's office rejects such electronically filed requests in all traffic infraction cases, in all courthouses.
California > Fourth Appellate District > San Bernardino County > Superior Court of California, County of San Bernardino
SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO 247 West Third Street, Eleventh Floor San Bernardino, CA 92415 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO IN RE: REJECTION OF ELECTRONICALLY FILED ABILITY TO PAY (e-ATP) REQUESTS FOR TRAFFIC INFRACTION CITATIONS DISPOSED OF BY BAIL FORFEITURE GENERAL ORDER #GO26-031 GENERAL ORDER OF THE PRESIDING JUDGE The ability to pay tool is not intended to be used to request fine reductions after a judgment has been entered, including if the case was disposed of by bail forfeiture. It is hereby ordered that the clerk’s office shall reject that filing. This general order applies to all traffic infraction cases, in all courthouses, where the case was previously disposed of by bail forfeiture. This order is effective January 1, 2026, and supersedes all previous general orders entitled Rejection of Electronically Filed Ability to Pay (E-Atp) Requests for Traffic Infraction Citations Disposed of by Bail Forfeiture issued by previous Presiding Judges. This order shall remain in effect until December 31, 2027. Dated this 1st day of January, 2026. Rod Cortez Presiding Judge of the Superior Court General Order: Rejection of Electronically Filed Ability to Pay (e-ATP) Requests [The order is signed above the printed name. The title "Rejection of Electronically Filed Ability to Pay (E-Atp) Requests for Traffic Infraction Citations Disposed of by Bail Forfeiture" is italicized in the print and transcribed as printed ("E-Atp"; the caption prints "e-ATP"). The footer is transcribed once; pleading line numbers are omitted.]
SUPERIOR COURT COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO 247 West Third Street, Eleventh Floor San Bernardino, CA 92415 IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF SAN BERNARDINO IN RE: REJECTION OF ELECTRONICALLY FILED ABILITY TO PAY (e-ATP) REQUESTS FOR TRAFFIC INFRACTION CITATIONS DISPOSED OF BY BAIL FORFEITURE GENERAL ORDER #GO26-031 GENERAL ORDER OF THE PRESIDING JUDGE The ability to pa
Reviewer note: Transcribed 2026-10-07 (California T4 San Bernardino build 2026-10-07) from BenchPath custody ca/t4/ca-san-bernardino/docs/forms-filing/rejectionofeatpfortrafficinfractionscitations.pdf (43302 bytes, sha256 a88425cad77e8326bbe85563d69b26f7e3a4938b3c22c79653a7a80681afe768; 1 page) - transcribed by eye from the rendered page images (200 dpi), every page read against its image; RapidOCR's reading of each page, and the file's own text layer where it has one, served only as second readers - every six-word window of the transcription was looked up in them and every miss checked on the page image, and every quotation mark, apostrophe and dash checked on a crop of the page (custody vision/check-log.md); captions set cell by cell, zip-code tables one row per line (zip codes | city), pleading continuation marks and line numbers omitted, running footers transcribed once, handwritten fills in place, with a closing bracketed note; a signature itself is not transcribed.
9 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-10.
6 verbatim requirements from 4th Circuit Administrative Order 1997-13.