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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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Ch. 110
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CHAPTER 110
(House Bill 4)
AN ACT concerning
Vehicle Laws - Drunk and Drugged Driving - Repeat Offenders
FOR the purpose of requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to suspend for a
certain period the license of a person convicted of certain repeat alcohol or
drug related driving offenses within a certain period; prohibiting the
Administration from issuing a restrictive license or modifying a suspension
during certain mandatory periods of suspension; altering the penalties for a
person convicted of repeated offenses of driving while under the influence or
under the influence per se and driving while impaired by alcohol, drugs, or a
combination of alcohol and drugs under certain circumstances; requiring the use
of an ignition interlock system under certain circumstances; altering the period
of certain license suspensions imposed under certain circumstances; altering the
time period for filing a reinstatement application for a driver's license or
privilege to drive under certain circumstances; making conforming changes;
providing for the effective date of this Act; making a stylistic change; and
generally relating to penalties for drunk and drugged driving repeat offenders.
FOR the purpose of requiring the Motor Vehicle Administration to suspend for a
certain period the license to drive of a person who is convicted within a certain
period of a second or subsequent offense of driving while under the influence of
alcohol or under the influence of alcohol per se; requiring a person whose license
is suspended under this Act to maintain for not more than a certain period a
certain ignition interlock system on each motor vehicle owned and operated by
the person; providing for a certain financial hardship exception; requiring the
Administration to adopt certain regulations; authorizing requiring the
Administration to impose an ignition interlock system restriction on a license
under certain circumstances; defining a certain term; providing that a license
suspension imposed under this Act shall be concurrent with another suspension
or revocation under certain circumstances; requiring certain procedures;
prohibiting the Administration from declining to order, or canceling or
modifying a license suspension under this Act; requiring the Administration to
return a license suspended under this Act under certain circumstances;
providing for certain mandatory minimum criminal penalties for subsequent
convictions of driving under the influence of alcohol or under the influence of
alcohol per se within a certain period; altering a certain definition of
"imprisonment" for purposes of certain mandatory minimum criminal penalties
for subsequent offenses of driving under the influence of alcohol or under the
influence of alcohol per se; requiring a court to order a certain alcohol abuse
assessment for a person who is convicted of a second or subsequent offense of
driving while under the influence of alcohol or under the influence of alcohol per
se within a certain period and to order the person to receive alcohol abuse
treatment under certain circumstances; providing for a certain modification of a
suspension and the issuance of a restrictive license or modification of an ignition
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