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A person who sought legal advice with HCA Vanadzor on November 13, 2015, stated that with a difference of only a few days in November, the RA traffic police fined him twice 100 thousand and 5 thousand AMD under Article 1292 (failure to hold a signed and effective compulsory third party liability motor insurance contract for vehicles registered in the Republic of Armenia and driving a vehicle without an effective compulsory third party liability motor insurance contract for such a vehicle) and Article 1233 (driving a vehicle with unfastened vehicle seat belts or unfastened helmet  or without any helmet, and transferring a passenger with unfastened vehicle seat belts or unfastened helmet or without any helmet) respectively, of the Republic of Armenia Code of Administrative Offences. He also added that he was unable to pay such a huge fine. Note that the person’s only means of livelihood was his vehicle which was quite old and morally worn-out and if compared with its market value, the size of the fine might even exceed it. The first of the violations above also relates to his social difficulties due to which he was unable to insure his vehicle in due time. In fact, the legal regulation ends in a deadlock for both the driver and the police. And in this context, RA Chief of Police V. Gasparyan’s calls for “tolerance, proper treatment and courtesy” turn out to be increasingly unrealistic. It can be only concluded that some of the causes underlying the “intolerable factors destroying the dignity of the police and undermining the public faith in the police” as put by Mr. Gasparyan, are also brought about by the obviously illegal nature of legislative regulations.