Who gets the traffic ticket?

Driver, been there done that. Included point on my license.

The driver. It is the responsibility of the driver to make sure the vehicle is in proper mechanical and legal condition to drive. She shouldn’t get points taken because it was a non-moving violation. And if she does get points, again, it was her responsibility.

Who owns the government, the new employee or the corporation? You figure out who pays.

The driver will be cited. The driver shouldn’t get into a company vehicle and drive it around without having checked it over to make sure everything is in good order, especially since the vehicle has probably had multiple past drivers. Who knows what’s been done with the paperwork or the manual; and what exactly have they stored in the trunk?

That said, if the company let the registration expire, I would expect them to reimburse the driver for the expense of a ticket. Nothing to be done about points, if any.

The driver of a car is responsible for everything pertaining to the car.

The citation goes to the operator of the vehicle, obviously (that’s the point of your story, after all, “the driver got a ticket” – that’s the citation). The resolution isn’t so difficult: Register the vehicle – whoever pays for that – and then take the new registration to the courthouse (as noted on the ticket) in answer to the summons. If you have a competent and reasonable judge / magistrate / hearing officer, then they should accept the story (and the new registration as proof of resolution of the issue) and dismiss the case.

@CWOTUS True, but you’ll still have to pay the court fees. An honorable employer would reimburse you, though.

I had no court fees of any kind when that happened to me, @Cupcake. And I didn’t even have the “someone else to blame” card to play; I had moved to Connecticut, my California registration had lapsed, and it was all on me. When I showed up in court to display the new Connecticut registration, the entire issue was dropped, and there were zero direct costs to me.

@CWOTUS How long ago? I got a ticket for an expired registration and charges were dropped when I proved I fixed it that day, but I still had to pay ~$40 on the spot in court fees. This was probably 10 years ago in NYS. Perhaps fees depend on the locality.

My experience was in either 2002 or ‘03 in Connecticut.

The driver is issued a ticket, but non-moving violations in Missouri don’t add points. As a matter of fact, you can pay a lawyer to have a speeding ticket reduced to a moving violation and you pay a slightly higher fine, pay your attorney, but get no points.