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NC DUI Offenders May Earn License Back

By erink

The North Carolina Senate approved a bill that would allow repeat DUI offenders with suspended driver’s licenses a chance to earn a permit back. If the bill is passed, people convicted of habitual impaired driving will be able to ask the Division of Motor Vehicles to be reinstated if they have had a clean criminal and traffic record for 10 years. For those who are able to obtain a license, the law wouldn’t allow them to be driving with a blood alcohol content of any level within the next seven years. Those who favored the bill said it’s only fair that repeat DUI offenders have a chance to get their licenses restored since others who have licenses revoked for other reasons can.  But critics felt that it wasn’t right to give these types of offenders another chance...continue to full post

Full post as published by The DUI Blog on July 09, 2009 (boomark / email).