A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT to remove the ten-year time period allowed to look back into a driver's history to determine if the defendant is a habitual impaired driving Offender.
The General Assembly of North Carolina enacts:
SECTION 1.  G.S. 20‑138.5(a) reads as rewritten:
"§ 20‑138.5.  Habitual impaired driving.
(a)	A person commits the offense of habitual impaired driving if he drives while impaired as defined in G.S. 20‑138.1 and has been convicted of three or more offenses involving impaired driving as defined in  G.S. 20‑4.01(24a).
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SECTION 2.  This act becomes effective October 1, 2007, and applies to offenses committed on or after that date.