Arizona Traffic Ticket and Complaint (ATTC)

APPROVAL OF AN E-CITATION (HANDHELD ATTC): Many AJACS courts and law enforcement agencies are moving in the direction of using electronic handheld devices to issue citations. If you are an AJACS court considering this option, please review the information below relating to the approval of the e-Citation.

Format of the Citation – The AOC has its own SmartPrint™ program that is available to the AJACS courts for free.  A citation, which was developed with cooperation of the AOC, the courts and the vendor, is available in a template format. If your court does not wish to use the template format, you will need to purchase your own SmartPrint™ program and submit the citation for approval by the Supreme Court.

Approval is Needed – You must submit the AOC’s SmartPrint™ citation for approval; however, the process should be fairly quick and simplified by using the template format that is currently provided. Your court may deviate from the template format, but any deviation in either the citation format or the Warning to the Defendant section, may result in longer approval times and increased money for programming by the court.

To request approval, please fill out the Request for Approval of e-Citation Handheld form and submit to Jennifer Jones.

Approval is Needed – All Photo Enforcement citations must be submitted to the Supreme Court for approval as the photo enforcement citation is substantially different from the Arizona Traffic Ticket and Complaint (ATTC) form provided for in the Arizona Rules of Court, Rules of Procedure in Traffic Cases and Boating Cases, Appendix A and is considered a “substantial variation."

To request approval, please fill out the Request for Approval of Photo Enforcement ATTC form and submit to Jennifer Jones.

APPROVAL OF A PARKING, ANIMAL CONTROL, OR HANDWRITTEN ATTC:
Approval is Needed – Agencies must complete the Request to Approve a Substantial Variation to the ATTC form for consideration of any proposed “substantial variations” to the Arizona Traffic Ticket and Complaint (ATTC) form. A citation is considered substantially different, and will require approval by the Supreme Court, if it deviates from the Arizona Traffic Ticket and Complaint (ATTC) form provided for in the Arizona Rules of Court, Rules of Procedure in Traffic Cases and Boating Cases, Appendix A.

To request approval, please fill out the Request to Approve a Substantial Variation to the ATTC form and submit to Jennifer Jones. 

Substantial Variations:

1. Removal or addition of any data contained on the form
2. Change of size, format, or content of form
3. Any deviation from Rule 3 or Rule 4
4. Any verbiage or language change on front or reverse of the form

Non-Substantial Variations:

1. Change of court address or phone number
2. Color of ink
3. Clerical corrections (i.e., misspellings)
4. Change in complaint numbering (does not include how charges are numbered)
5. Change in font size but not verbiage

• eCitation Administration Guide: Provides courts with information on implementing e-Citation in their courts, usually through the handheld or photo enforcement complaints. The Cookbook provides the technical aspects of implementing e-Citations in AJACS courts specifically, but may also prove useful for non-AJACS courts. 
• Template Format for Handhelds
• e-Citation Newsletter Article - April 1 2008
• e-Citation Implementation Court Checklists
• Hand Held / MDC Devices
• Photo Enforcement Project 

• Request for Approval of e-Citation Handheld
• Request for Approval of Photo Enforcement ATTC
• Request to Approve a Substantial Variation to the ATTC