HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3458 FILED ON: 2/18/2011 HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3612 The Commonwealth of Massachusetts _________________ PRESENTED BY: Aaron Michlewitz _______________ To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General
Court assembled: The undersigned legislators and/or citizens respectfully petition for the passage of the accompanying: An Act relative to driver's license reinstatement hearings
. _______________ PETITION OF: Name: | District/Address: | Aaron Michlewitz | 3rd Suffolk |
HOUSE DOCKET, NO. 3458 FILED ON: 2/18/2011 HOUSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . No. 3612
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts
An Act relative to driver's license reinstatement hearings
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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:
Chapter 90 of the General Laws is hereby amended by inserting after section 22D the following section:- Section 22D½ . For the purposes of a hearing to reinstate a license suspended for a criminal offense or for the consideration of the granting of a hardship license due to a suspended license for a criminal offense, a person shall be deemed to have been convicted if he pleaded guilty or nolo contendere or was found or adjudged to be guilty by a court of competent jurisdiction, whether or not he was placed on probation without sentence or under a suspended sentence or the case was placed on file or the case was continued without a finding and subsequently dismissed. The registrar, in his discretion, shall consider any such convictions in the determination of reinstatement or granting of a hardship license. |
