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The traffic law's violation tables, read from the Gazette

Since 5 November the page of Traffic Law 243/2012 shows the 389 rows of its annexed violation tables, read by machine from the Official Gazette.

The short answer.

Law 243 of 2012, the traffic law, sorts violations into categories in tables annexed to it. Its page now has those tables: 389 rows, each with its category, the articles it rests on, the violation, the points and the 2012 fine range. They were read from Official Gazette issue 45 of 25 October 2012, pages 4970 to 4995 and 5001. Each row has its own address, so a guide or an AI assistant can cite the exact row.

A machine read them, and the page says so.

No person reviewed these rows. Where two readings of a row disagreed, in 26 rows, the value shown was decided by Gemini from the page image and the cited articles. The page marks those rows and the data keeps every candidate reading. Six rows are marked as replaced by Article 1 of Law 278 of 2014.

The fines are the 2012 amounts.

The tables give the fine range each category had in 2012, from Article 374. Later laws changed the amounts, and the page carries the same line about Law 324 of 2024, Article 42, that our traffic fines guide gives. Read the tables for the category and the points, and check the amount against the later texts.

Six articles as first published in 1963.

Articles 49 to 54 of the Social Security Law now show a folded block, "Wording as first published in 1963, read from the Official Gazette's pages", under the Lebanese University's text. It was read from Gazette issue 78 of 30 September 1963, pages 14 to 17. The University's text stays the text of the page.

Two guides now use them.

The traffic fines guide gives the category and points for speeding, phone use, alcohol, seat belts, traffic lights, driving the wrong way, helmets and child seats, each linked to its row. The end-of-service indemnity guide takes the rules of Articles 50, 51 and 52 from the 1963 wording. Every quote in a guide is checked against the reading it cites.

A fix the screenshots found.

While checking the new tables on a phone we found that every Arabic law page with a side column was 63 pixels wider than a 390-pixel screen. It came from an older form on the page, not from the tables, and it is fixed.

Sources

Read the traffic fines guide