Bill Summaries: H1043 IGNITION INTERLOCK VIOLATION/EXTEND PERIOD.

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  • Summary date: May 6 2024 - View Summary

    Amends GS 20-17.8 (applicable to a person with a driver’s license) and GS 20-179.3 (applicable to a person with a limited driving privilege) by adding that a person who commits an ignition interlock system violation during the 90 days immediately preceding the date on which the person’s initial compliance with the ignition interlock is to end must have the period of compliance extended for an additional period of 90 days or until the person has been violation-free for such extended period.

    Provides that prosecutions for offenses committed before the act’s effective date are not abated or affected by this act, and the statutes that would be applicable but for this act remain applicable to those prosecutions.

    Appropriates $50,000 for 2024-25 from the General Fund to the Division of Motor Vehicles for costs incurred in implementing these provisions.

    Effective July 1, 2024.