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| | | An Act To Enhance Highway Safety |
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| | | Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows: |
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| | | Sec. 1. 29-A MRSA §2413, sub-§1-A is enacted to read: |
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| | | 1-A.__Aggravated punishment category.__Notwithstanding | | subsection 1, a person commits a Class C crime if, with criminal | | negligence as defined in Title 17-A, section 35, that person | | drives a motor vehicle in any place in a manner that endangers | | the property of another or a person, including the operator or | | passenger in the motor vehicle being driven, and causes serious | | bodily injury, as defined in Title 17-A, section 2, subsection | | 23, to another person. |
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| | | Sec. 2. 29-A MRSA §2413, sub-§3, as enacted by PL 1993, c. 683, Pt. A, | | §2 and affected by Pt. B, §5, is amended to read: |
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| | | 3. Penalties. In addition to any other penalty, the court | | shall suspend the driver's license of a person convicted under | | subsection 1 for not less than 30 days nor more than 180 days, | | which minimum may not be suspended. In addition to any other | | penalty, the court shall suspend the driver's license of a person | | convicted under subsection 1-A for not less than 180 days nor | | more than 2 years, which minimum may not be suspended. If the | | court fails to suspend the license, the Secretary of State shall | | impose the minimum period of suspension. |
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