Your home state of Colorado and the state that you were visiting, Florida, both take part in the Drivers License Compact (DLC) which requires its member states to report moving violation convictions back to the licensing state of the driver. So FL will inform CO of the 15 mph speeding ticket if you are convicted of it. You can see if Florida will allow you to take traffic school to dismiss or adjudicate the citation so that Colorado's DMV would not be will be notified of your NE speeding ticket.

Colorado statute CRS 24-60-1101 discusses the state's involvement with the DLC. This Colorado Revised Statute states that the licensing authority of a party state shall report each conviction of a person from another state back to the home state of the licensee. The report needs to include a description of the violation as well as what action was taken.

When the Colorado Division of Motor Vehicles receives this out of state violation conviction information, they will decide what to do with it. They have the right to give such effect to the offense as if it occurred in the home state.

It appears if it is a major offense, such as drunk driving, that CO does regard the violation as if it happened in state and thus it incurs penalties. But this CRS says, as the home state issuing the license, Colorado will not take adverse action regarding minor traffic infractions.

We contacted the CO DMV to clarify what they do regarding minor moving violation convictions they receive in from out of state on their licensed motorists. The CO DMV representative stated that if you do not have a CDL and just a regular Colorado driver license, as long as you pay an out of state citation it will not go onto your Colorado driver's record. Since it will not go on your Colorado driving record it will not be assigned points either.

So even if you cannot take traffic school to dismiss the Florida speeding ticket than it would appear that you would be okay in Colorado since their DMV does not place out of state moving violation convictions on your CO motor vehicle record or assess the ticket points.

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