Traffic Fine Lookup

How much is a speeding ticket in Texas?

each local court sets the amount · 1 tiers · every row cited · sources retrieved 2026-07-17

set by the local courtcourt-set

15 mph over the limit, first offense, outside any work zone — the full arithmetic is on this page.

Texas has no statewide fine amount for ordinary speeding: each local court sets its own schedule. What IS uniform statewide — the caps, the mandatory add-ons, the points — is decomposed on this page, and where only your court can name the final figure, the page says so instead of inventing one. For 15 mph over the limit, the honest answer is set by the local court — the page decomposes what is knowable statewide instead of inventing a total. What raises it: construction or maintenance work zone with workers present; school crossing zone (municipal court cases). Points: Texas does not run a demerit-point schedule for speeding; DPS enforcement is conviction-count based. A driver becomes a 'habitual violator' subject to license suspension after 4 moving-violation convictions from separate incidents within 12 months, or 7 within 24 months. Every row on this page carries its citation — 7 primary sources (statute text, court fine schedules, DMV publications), each with a retrieval date, plus the local-variation caveat that applies in Texas. This is a reference to what the law and the schedules print; it is not legal advice.

How Texas sets it Texas statute sets only a band — speeding is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $1 to $200 — and the municipal or justice-of-the-peace court that handles the ticket sets the actual amount inside that band, usually from its own published schedule. What IS uniform statewide is the stack of mandatory add-ons: a $50 state traffic fine, a $62 state consolidated court cost, a $14 local consolidated court cost, and a $3 additional state fine — $129 on top of whatever fine the local court sets.

The fine, tier by tier

Speeding fines in Texas by speed over the limit. “Base fine” is what the statute or schedule names; “what you actually owe” includes the mandatory add-ons where state law fixes them.
Speed over the limit Base fine What you actually owe Citation
Any speed over the limit (statute has no mph tiers) $1 – $200 state-set set by the local court court-set Tex. Transp. Code §542.401

The $1–$200 band applies to any speeding conviction regardless of how far over the limit; each municipal or justice court sets the amount (most publish standard fine schedules). In a construction or maintenance work zone with workers present the band doubles to $2–$400 (see aggravators).

The mandatory add-ons

These attach on top of whatever fine the court sets:

Add-on How it is computed Citation
State traffic fine $50 flat on conviction of any offense under Transportation Code Title 7, Subtitle C (which includes speeding) Tex. Transp. Code §542.4031(a)
State consolidated court cost $62 flat on conviction of a nonjailable misdemeanor (Class C traffic offenses) Tex. Loc. Gov't Code §133.102(a)(3)
Local consolidated court cost $14 flat on conviction of a nonjailable misdemeanor, collected for municipal/county funds Tex. Loc. Gov't Code §134.103(a)
Additional state fine $3 flat on conviction of a misdemeanor under Transportation Code Title 7, Subtitle C Tex. Transp. Code §542.403(a)

Worked example: 15 mph over the limit, first offense, outside any work zone

Line Amount Citation
Fine — set by the municipal or justice court; statutory ceiling shown $200 Tex. Transp. Code §542.401
State traffic fine $50 Tex. Transp. Code §542.4031(a)
State consolidated court cost $62 Tex. Loc. Gov't Code §133.102(a)(3)
Local consolidated court cost $14 Tex. Loc. Gov't Code §134.103(a)
Additional state fine $3 Tex. Transp. Code §542.403(a)
Where it lands set by the local court court-set

The four statewide add-ons total $129 and are the same everywhere in Texas. The fine itself is set by the specific court within the $1–$200 statutory band — many courts publish a schedule keyed to mph over, but those schedules are local documents that differ city to city, so there is no statewide total to print and this page does not invent one.

What raises it

License points

Texas does not run a demerit-point schedule for speeding; DPS enforcement is conviction-count based. A driver becomes a 'habitual violator' subject to license suspension after 4 moving-violation convictions from separate incidents within 12 months, or 7 within 24 months.

Habitual-violator status brings an automatic 90-day suspension if no hearing is requested; after a hearing with an affirmative finding, suspension may run up to 1 year. (Tex. Transp. Code §521.292(a)(3); Tex. DPS form DL-176 (rev. 10/2025); dps.texas.gov Traffic Offenses)

When a court appearance is required

For speeding, the officer must issue a written notice to appear (rather than take the driver before a magistrate) once the driver signs a promise to appear; the notice states the time and place, and the appearance date must be at least 10 days after the citation unless the driver asks for an earlier hearing. Courts handle the appearance obligation under Class C misdemeanor procedure. (Tex. Transp. Code §§543.003–543.006)

Local variation — the honest caveat

This is the definition of a local-schedules state: every municipal and justice court adopts its own standard fine amounts inside the $1–$200 statutory band, so identical tickets in neighboring towns produce different totals. Optional local costs and payment-timing fees can add more. (Tex. Transp. Code §542.401)

Sources

Every figure above was compiled from these sources, with a verbatim quote of the sentence carrying each number stored in the dataset so any row can be re-checked against its origin.

This is not legal advice This page republishes what Texas's statutes, court fine schedules, and driver-licensing publications print, for reference. Amounts change on legislative cycles, and the court named on a citation is the authority on what is owed in that court. Nothing here is advice about any citation or case.