The statute creates criminal penalties for persons whose driver's licenses are suspended for certain drunk driving offenses and who, while under suspension for those offenses, unlawfully operate a motor vehicle.
It will be a crime of the fourth degree to operate a motor vehicle during a period of driver's license suspension if the person's driver's license was suspended or revoked for a first offense of driving while intoxicated or refusal to submit to a breath test, and the person had previously been convicted of operating a motor vehicle while under suspension for that first offense.
It is a crime of the fourth degree to operate a motor vehicle during a period of license suspension if the person's license was suspended or revoked for a second or subsequent offense of driving while intoxicated or refusal to submit to a breath test.
A person convicted of violating the law's provisions is to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment which would include a six-month period of parole ineligibility.
The effective date is 18 months to permit the Motor Vehicle Commission to make modifications to its computer system.
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