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State Laws Menu Statistics History Education Coalitions Victims Impact NYS Drunk Driving Laws Tips for Parents What Can Happen Keg Registration Press Releases Goals & Achievements DWI Home N.Y.S. DRUNK DRIVING LAWS The Rockland County Stop-DWI Office provides the following information on the law and penalties for conviction of operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Tougher penalties are levied for convictions of Driving While I ntoxicated (DWI) and Driving While Ability Impaired by Alcohol (DWAI) while operating a commercial motor vehicle and significantly increase when transporting passengers for hire, children, (school bus) dangerous cargo and hazardous materials. Additionally, the required blood alcohol concentration, (also referred to as BAC) necessary to obtain a conviction for DWI/DWAI is significantly lower when operating commercial motor vehicles. Stop-DWI wants you to understand the consequences of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs. Alcohol and drug impaired driving continues to be a major problem in the United States responsible for approximately seventeen thousand deaths each year. A significant number of these deaths involve underage drinking and young adults between the ages of sixteen to twenty-one years old. We strongly endorse the message conveyed by the law - it does not pay to drink and drive. New York State recently passed legislation lowering the blood alcohol concentration (BAC) necessary to sustain a conviction for Driving While Intoxicated from .10% to .08%. Studies have shown that motorists with a .08% BAC experience significant reductions in the performance of critical tasks such as braking, steering, lane changing, distance perception and judgment. Moreover, research indicates that impairment occurs at much lower blood alcohol concentrations of .01% to .03%. A person can reach a BAC of .01% by consuming just three ounces of whiskey, one wine cooler or one can of beer. Such impairment can have a detrimental effect on your ability to operate a motor vehicle depending upon the drivers emotional state, body weight, fatigue level, tolerance, and body chemistry. Therefore, you must understand that intoxication is a condition that exists within the mind and can be induced by small amounts of alcohol or other drugs and intensified by a persons physiological composition and emotional state. Keep these facts in mind and remember that alcohol effects each person uniquely and to differing degrees. The decisions you make may very well save your life and the lives of your family, friends and other innocent people. Fine & Drivers License Sanctions Section 1192 N.Y.S. V&T Law as of November 10, 2003 Driving While Ability Impaired By Alcohol 1192.1 - Private Passenger Vehicle Driving While Ability Impaired By Alcohol 1192.1 - Commercial Motor Vehicle Driving While Intoxicated 1192.3 & Driving With .08 Or More Blood Alcohol Content 1192.2 - All Vehicles Driving While Ability Impaired By Drugs 1192.4 All Vehicles Operating A Motor Vehicle Under The Age Of 21 After Consuming Alcohol - Also Known As The Zero Tolerance Law - Private Passenger Vehicle Refusal To Submit To A Chemical Test Of Your Blood, Breath Or Urine To Determine Drug/Alcohol Content Digested Version of DWI Laws 1192-A Zero Tolerance Law - Violation. Operate a motor vehicle with a BAC of .02 to .07 by a person under 21 years old. 1192-1 Driving While Ability Impaired Alcohol - Traffic Infraction. Operate a motor vehicle while ability impaired by alcohol. 1192-1 Driving While Ability Impaired Alcohol - Misdemeanor. Operate a special vehicle while ability impaired by alcohol. Taxi/livery vehicle with paying passenger, or a non-commercial motor vehicle weighing more than 18000 lbs. but not more than 26000 lbs.---i.e. motor homes and recreational vehicles. 1192-1 Driving While Ability Impaired Alcohol - Misdemeanor. Current charge escalates to a misdemeanor if two prior convictions in N.Y.S. within ten years of any 1192 offense. 1192-1 Driving While Ability Impaired Alcohol - Felony. Operate a special vehicle plus prior conviction for special vehicle within ten years. 1192-2 Driving with .08 or More BAC - Misdemeanor. Operate a motor vehicle with a BAC of .08 or more. Escalates to a felony with prior conviction in N.Y.S. for 1192-2 or 3 within ten years or a conviction of Vehicular Assault or Vehicular Manslaughter. Charge will also escalate to a felony if operating a more than 18000-lb. motor vehicle carrying dangerous cargo or operating a school bus with passengers. 1192-3 Driving While Intoxicated - Misdemeanor. Operate a motor vehicle while intoxicated. Escalates to a felony with a prior conviction in N.Y.S. for 1192-2 or 3 within ten years or a conviction of Vehicular Assault or Vehicular Manslaughter. Charge will also escalate to a felony if operating a more than 18000lb. motor vehicle carrying dangerous cargo or operating a school bus with passengers. 1192-4 Driving While Ability Impaired by Drugs - Misdemeanor. Operate a motor vehicle under the influence of drugs. Charge escalates to a felony with a prior conviction in N.Y.S. of 1192-4 within ten years. 1192-5 DWAI - Commercial Motor Vehicle Level I -Traffic Infraction. Operate a commercial motor vehicle with .04 or more, but not more than .06 BAC. 1192-6 DWAI - Commercial Motor Vehicle Level II - Misdemeanor. Operate a commercial motor vehicle with more than .06, but less than .08 BAC. If two prior convictions in N.Y.S. for 1192-1,2,3,4,6 within five years and one charge is a misdemeanor the current charge escalates to a felony.
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breathalyzers are unreliable Updated CTV.ca | MADD says pocket breathalyzers are unreliable The Web CTV.ca Home News Canada AM Weather Sports Entertainment Programs TV Listings Contests Local -- News Programs CTV News Team Services Top Stories Canada World Entertainment Health Sports Business Sci-Tech Consumer Specials CTV News with Lloyd Robertson Canada AM Question Period W-FIVE Lloyd Robertson Sandie Rinaldo Hosts Reporters Web Team Contact Us Daily Newsletter Submit a Story Weather Wireless Site Map RSS -- Andrew Murie of Mothers Against Drunk Driving speaks with Canada AM on Tuesday. MADD says pocket breathalyzers are unreliable Updated Tue. Nov. 29 2005 10:38 AM ET CTV.ca News Staff Pocket breathalyzers are not always accurate and could give drivers a false sense that they're sober enough to get behind the wheel, say traffic safety groups. The devices, sold for about $10 under names such as the Alcohol Tester, are available at stores across Canada such as the Bay, Wal-Mart and Zellers. They operate much the way a roadside alcohol test does: a driver blows into the mouthpiece and if their blood alcohol level is above the legal limit of .08 per cent, a red light is ignited. Andrew Murie, the CEO of MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving), says his group does not endorse the devices because they often give inaccurate readings. "Basically, the reliability of the equipment for false negatives is really high," he told Canada AM Tuesday. "And so it's like playing Russian roulette with your safety and others on the roadway." Murie says his biggest worry about the devices is that drivers will get inaccurate results from them and will continue to drink beyond the legal limit. "Then you get behind the car and you cause carnage out there that is unnecessary. So the public shouldn't rely on this really cheap type of -- it's really a gizmo," he says. The price of the tiny devices alone should raise eyebrows, Murie says, since the equipment that police officers use cost thousands of dollars, require extensive training to use and have to be tested and recalibrated regularly. Murie says he's not just disappointed in the device's accuracy; he says that drivers shouldn't be using them at all. "It sends the wrong message. You should never drink up to the legal limit," he says. "If you're going to drink, separate it from the driving." But the Bay says the pocket breathalyzer has been very popular and has become a hot seller. "Given the popularity of the product, consumers are clearly demonstrating they're engaging with the worthwhile message MADD is spreading about responsible drinking," says corporate communications director Hillary Stauth. One of the manufacturers of the devices, Resource Management International, has also defended its Connectables Breathalyzer tester. "We do not condone drinking and driving," the company said in a recent statement. "The Connectables Breathalyzer allows consumers access to a reliable and affordable alcohol-testing device that can take the guesswork about whether it is safe to drive. It is designed to create awareness and responsibility." Curie adds that he believes that the legal limit in this country is far too high. That's why MADD is now lobbying the government to lower the legal blood-alcohol limit to .05 per cent, though he concedes that their efforts have stalled now that the country is into a federal election. "But we still believe and the public should believe that the guideline of .05 and lower is where you should be. Because intoxication starts at the first drink and as low as .03." User Tools Print This Page E-Mail Story Feedback Canadian Stories Danielle Goyette named flag bearer for Turin games Accountability to be Harper's 'first priority' American student voted illegally in election Police may have lead in Mtl. gas station slaying Firefighters mourn fallen colleague in Montreal Diplomat Glyn Berry honoured in London ceremony Que. police make breakthrough in sexual assaults HBC reaches takeover deal with Jerry Zucker John Manley won't seek Liberal leadership Hospital patient left in hallway for five days Street-racing tragedy ends cabbie's Cdn. dream Video Canada AM: Andrew Murie, CEO of MADD Related Stories RIDE targets holiday drinking and driving New B.C. drunk-driving law getting results Web Links MADD Canada User Tools Print This Page E-Mail Story Feedback About CTV | Careers | CTV Announcements | Advertise on TV | Advertise on Web Archive Sales | Tapes and Transcripts | Privacy Policy | Terms and Conditions | Contact Us | Site Map © 2006 Bell Globemedia Inc. All Rights Reserved.
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DUI Quiet? Mannie Garcia Gonzales: Did He Help Bush Keep His DUI Quiet? - Newsweek Periscope - MSNBC.com Skip navigation Newsweek Subscribe Now Periscope National News Politics World News International Ed. War in Iraq Business Enterprise Tech & Science Healthbeat Society Education Entertainment Tip Sheet Columnists Letters & Live Talks Multimedia/Photos Search the Site Search Archives U.S. News World News Business Sports Entertainment Tech / Science Health Weather Travel Blogs Etc. Local News Newsweek Multimedia News Video Most Popular NBC NEWS MSNBC TV Today Show Nightly News Meet the Press Dateline NBC Newsweek Home Periscope Gonzales: Did He Help Bush Keep His DUI Quiet? Mannie Garcia / Reuters Did Gonzales (right) get Bush off a DUI jury duty? By By Michael Isikoff Newsweek Jan. 31 issue - Senate Democrats put off a vote on White House counsel Alberto Gonzales's nomination to be attorney general, complaining he had provided evasive answers to questions about torture and the mistreatment of prisoners. But Gonzales's most surprising answer may have come on a different subject: his role in helping President Bush escape jury duty in a drunken-driving case involving a dancer at an Austin strip club in 1996. The judge and other lawyers in the case last week disputed a written account of the matter provided by Gonzales to the Senate Judiciary Committee. "It's a complete misrepresentation," said David Wahlberg, lawyer for the dancer, about Gonzales's account. Bush's summons to serve as a juror in the drunken-driving case was, in retrospect, a fateful moment in his political career: by getting excused from jury duty he was able to avoid questions that would have required him to disclose his own 1976 arrest and conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) in Kennebunkport, Maine-an incident that didn't become public until the closing days of the 2000 campaign. (Bush, who had publicly declared his willingness to serve, had left blank on his jury questionnaire whether he had ever been "accused" in a criminal case.) Asked by Sen. Patrick Leahy to describe "in detail" the only court appearance he ever made on behalf of Bush, Gonzales-who was then chief counsel to the Texas governor-wrote that he had accompanied Bush the day he went to court "prepared to serve on a jury." While there, Gonzales wrote, he "observed" the defense lawyer make a motion to strike Bush from the jury panel "to which the prosecutor did not object." Asked by the judge whether he had "any views on this," Gonzales recalled, he said he did not. MOST-POPULAR ARTICLES Are You Working Yourself to Death? A Jesuit Bioethicist on Schiavo's Right to Die -> Catholicism: Inside the Secretive Opus Dei Jesus: The Epic Story of a Great Faith Vote: Should Terri Schiavo have the right to die? While Gonzales's account tracks with the official court transcript, it leaves out a key part of what happened that day, according to Travis County Judge David Crain. In separate interviews, Crain-along with Wahlberg and prosecutor John Lastovica-told NEWSWEEK that, before the case began, Gonzales asked to have an off-the-record conference in the judge's chambers. Gonzales then asked Crain to "consider" striking Bush from the jury, making the novel "conflict of interest" argument that the Texas governor might one day be asked to pardon the defendant (who worked at an Austin nightclub called Sugar's), the judge said. "He [Gonzales] raised the issue," Crain said. Crain said he found Gonzales's argument surprising, since it was "extremely unlikely" that a drunken-driving conviction would ever lead to a pardon petition to Bush. But "out of deference" to the governor, Crain said, the other lawyers went along. Wahlberg said he agreed to make the motion striking Bush because he didn't want the hard-line governor on his jury anyway. But there was little doubt among the participants as to what was going on. "In public, they were making a big show of how he was prepared to serve," said Crain. "In the back room, they were trying to get him off." Gonzales last week refused to waver. "Judge Gonzales has no recollection of requesting a meeting in chambers," a senior White House official said, adding that while Gonzales did recall that Bush's potential conflict was "discussed," he never "requested" that Bush be excused. "His answer to the Senate's question is accurate," the official said. 2006 Newsweek, Inc. 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