Tickets Outside Your Area

There are "reciprocity agreements" between the US and Canada, meaning that some states and provinces share ticket information. These tickets will show up on your driver’s abstract and affect your insurance rate, just as though you received the ticket in your own province or state.  (If you live in the US, all tickets from all of the states will show up on your record).

Interestingly, if you get a ticket in a state or province for an act that’s legal where you live, it will show up on your driver’s abstract and count against

you. Some examples of that are "cell phone use while driving" and right turns on red lights where prohibited.

Tickets outside Canada or the US will not show up on your driver's abstract.