GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF NORTH CAROLINA
SESSION 2017
S 2
SENATE BILL 299
Judiciary Committee Substitute Adopted 4/4/17
Short Title: Habitual Impaired Driving/10-Year Period. |
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March 16, 2017
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to adjust how the TEN‑year period for determining whether a person committed the offense of habitual impaired driving is calculated.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1. G.S. 20‑138.5 reads as rewritten:
"§ 20‑138.5. Habitual impaired driving.
(a) A person commits the offense of habitual impaired
driving if he the person drives while impaired as defined in
G.S. 20‑138.1 and has been convicted of three or more offenses
involving impaired driving as defined in G.S. 20‑4.01(24a) within 10
years of the date of this offense. Any period of time that the person spent incarcerated
in a local, State, or federal detention center, jail, or prison for an offense
involving impaired driving, as defined in G.S. 20‑4.01(24a), shall
be excluded in calculating the 10‑year period under this subsection.
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(d) A person convicted under this section shall have his or her license permanently revoked.
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SECTION 2. This act becomes effective December 1, 2017, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.