Add Offense to General Citation

When adding an Offense to a General Citation, several different paths and related screens can be encountered based on the selection made on the OFFENSE CATEGORY screen. Below are the steps and details of these various paths and screens.

Before you start:

  • A General Citation can contain a maximum of two (2) Offenses.

  • A General Citation can contain a Misdemeanor, Traffic, or Infraction offense but cannot contain a Felony offense.

  • Additional Offenses cannot be added once a General Citation has been issued (status =  Served).

 

  1. Perform the initial steps to add a General Citation, or search for and retrieve an existing General Citation from the PROCESS SEARCH RESULTS screen.

  2. Once the General Citation has been initially added or retrieved from a search, click on the OFFENSES tab.

  3. The OFFENSEs tab displays. Click the Add Offense button.

  4. The OFFENSE CATEGORY screen displays. Select the radio button of an Offense category and click the Select button.

  5. A screen based on your selection displays. Below are the steps to follow based on your Offense category selection:

 

Any selection of a category containing one Offense Code, or a selection of Work Zone or School Zone

  1. The OFFENSE FULL TEXT screen for the Offense displays. Keep, edit, or add the text and click the Add button.

  2. (If the Offense requires an Alcohol Test or a CR-341, the related screens will display by default. Add and submit this data. See Add/Edit Blood Alcohol or Add/Edit CR-341 for more Help.)

  3. (If the results of the Alcohol Test from the above step require a CVR 2 & 8, the related screen will display by default. Add and submit this data. See Add/Edit CVR 2 & 8 for more Help.)

  4. (If the Offense requires a CVR-13, the related screen will display by default. Add and submit this data. See Add/Edit CVR 13 for more Help.)

 

Any selection of a category containing multiple Offense Codes, or a selection of At a Speed of...

  1. The OFFENSE SEARCH RESULTS screen displays with all related Offense Codes listed. Select the radio button of an Offense and click the Select button.

  2. The OFFENSE FULL TEXT screen for the Offense displays. Keep, edit, or add the text and click the Add button.

  3. (If the Offense requires an Alcohol Test or a CR-341, the related screens will display by default. Add and submit this data. See Add/Edit Blood Alcohol or Add/Edit CR-341 for more Help.)

  4. (If the results of the Alcohol Test from the above step require a CVR 2 & 8, the related screen will display by default. Add and submit this data. See Add/Edit CVR 2 & 8 for more Help.)

  5. (If the Offense requires a CVR-13, the related screen will display by default. Add and submit this data. See Add/Edit CVR 13 for more Help.)

Note:  A few Offense categories may require the normal multi-screen data entry procedure found on Warrants, Orders, and Summons. See Add Defined Offense to Magistrate Order for an example of this procedure.
 

 

A selection of Other

    1. The OFFENSE SEARCH screen displays. Perform a search and retrieve the Offense Title. From this point, the same multi-screen data entry procedure found on Warrants, Orders, and Summons may be required. See Add Defined Offense to Magistrate Order for an example of this procedure.

    2. Once the multi-screen procedure is completed,  the OFFENSE FULL TEXT screen for the Offense displays. Review the text and make edits if necessary, then click the Add button.

    3. (If the Offense requires an Alcohol Test or a CR-341, the related screens will display by default. Add and submit this data. See Add/Edit Blood Alcohol or Add/Edit CR-341 for more Help.)

    4. (If the results of the Alcohol Test from the above step require a CVR 2 & 8, the related screen will display by default. Add and submit this data. See Add/Edit CVR 2 & 8 for more Help.)

    5. (If the Offense requires a CVR-13, the related screen will display by default. Add and submit this data. See Add/Edit CVR 13 for more Help.)

Note:  If a particular Local (99) Offense does not return from a search, this may indicate the Offense has not yet been added by an Administrator. See Add a Newly Created Local (99) Offense to a Process to add it manually.

 

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Regardless of which set of the above steps are executed, once the Add button on the OFFENSE FULL TEXT screen is clicked (or required Alcohol, CR-341, CVR 2 & 8, or CVR 13 screens are submitted), the offenses tab returns displaying the added Offense.

Repeat the above steps for any remaining Offenses on the process.

 

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