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infraction

noun as in violation

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City Attorney Mara Elliott said she supports that idea as well, but because the tickets are handled administratively, as infractions, her office isn’t involved in the prosecution.

The tickets are infractions, which are handled administratively.

There were more shooting fouls drawn, but there were also more freedom of movement infractions that occurred before the shot.

A ticket of this nature is likely to fail a constitutional challenge, but because police have been issuing the tickets as infractions, rather than misdemeanors, they’re handled administratively, not criminally.

Because the tickets were filed in recent years as infractions rather than misdemeanors, the process has played out administratively, not criminally.

Then comes a combination of tools based on the specific infraction.

The fee for such an administrative infraction is approximately $30.

They all were insisting that their alleged crime was really an administrative infraction.

Two weeks later, came another, bigger penalty, for the same infraction, and then a third.

Also, a “significant misdemeanor” or other infraction could disrupt their stay.

But it soon became apparent that his infraction of discipline in crossing the Ohio was not forgiven.

They were, besides, made amenable to a most rigorous system of laws, the least infraction of which was punished with death.

Most of them are the penalties imposed by nature because of the infraction of her laws.

To be found under a convoy is not, in itself, an infraction of the treaty, but the conduct of this convoy is to be considered.

All must obey, or compose, the same laws that ran without infraction through the entire experience of man.

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On this page you'll find 41 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to infraction, such as: breach, crime, error, infringement, lapse, and offense.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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