On April 1, 2015 already for the fact of driving while intoxicated can go to jail. For those responsible for drunken fatal crashes introduced mandatory prison term. In the case of an accident with a drunk driver killed will face a minimum of two years in prison, and if dead more – not less than four. In this case, with the April 1, 2016 will operate 50 per cent discount for timely payment of an administrative fine.
The bill toughening responsibility for the management of car drivers intoxicated, State Duma on Friday passed in the second reading. Now, in case of repeated drunk driving and repeated refusal of medosvidetelstvovaniya motorist faces criminal responsibility. The form of intoxication may be of any kind – both alcoholic and narcotic or psychotropic character. All penalties will also apply to consume alcohol after the accident.
Drunk driver killer set a lower limit of punishment
Now in the case of an accident with a drunk driver killed by h. 4 tbsp. 264 of the Criminal Code threatened with imprisonment for up to seven years.
On April 1, 2015, in this case, the offender will face already from two to seven years in prison. That is the law for the first time will be the lower limit of punishment, which guarantees that the defendant can not get rid of too mild a punishment.
In the event that killed two and more, the term of imprisonment will have from four to nine years – now on the hour. 6 tablespoons. 264 of the Criminal Code prescribes a penalty of up to nine years in prison, and the lower limit of liability is not provided.
If caught a second time
The bill also introduces a new Criminal Code Article 264 (1). For the first time the criminal liability will attract for the mere fact re drinking and driving or repeated refusal by medosvidetelstvovaniya. The penalty will be applied if the offender is caught within a year after the return of driver’s license for the first offense. It is natural that those over drunk driving law has not yet returned when recapture will also be held criminally responsible.
«Even if you just sat behind the wheel drunk, without making accident, then repeat offenders already for the fact of control drunk will bear criminal responsibility, “- said” Gazeta.ru “the author of the bill deputy Vyacheslav Lisakov.
Recall that now drunken driving considered an administrative offense and is governed exclusively by the Administrative Code. The first time a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of 30 thousand. Rubles. and deprivation of rights for a period of one and a half to two years, and at repeated infringement – a fine of 50 thousand. rubles. and deprivation of rights for three years.
On April 1, 2015 for repeated violation of the driver can be put behind bars. Various penalties: fines of up to 300 thousand. Rub., Forced labor or imprisonment for a term not exceeding two years. In all three cases provided for suspension of driving privileges for three years.
According to the new law, a repeated refusal of medosvidetelstvovaniya in case of accident victims will be equated with driving while intoxicated, and the driver automatically go to court as a drunk.
It was assumed that the bill will come in force from 1 January 2015. But in connection with the events in the Crimea its consideration in the State Duma was postponed several times.
«Interior Ministry must prepare to release regulations to regulate the process of registration of the driver, to provide training and coaching – said Lisakov. – It takes time, and until December 31, no one has time to do so. On Tuesday, December 16 the bill is passed in the third reading ».
50% discount on payment of a fine
Meanwhile, lawmakers have made a big step towards motorists who have committed administrative offenses.
So, from April 1, 2016 will operate the so-called discount on payment of fines for traffic violations.
If the driver pays the fine came to him within 20 days of the issuance of the corresponding decision, he can do it with a 50 percent discount. The corresponding bill in the State Duma adopted on Friday in the third and final reading. According to Lysakova, it will encourage drivers will pay the fines, tracking their online public services.
«If the driver is registered online public services, he will come to the phone SMS-notification that he had violated traffic rules and was issued a decree. Thus, it can quickly pay off the fine and save, “- said Lisakov.
The ability to pay the fine at a discount does not apply to a number of articles of Chapter 12 of the Administrative Code – for example, this can not be a driver to operate a vehicle while intoxicated or transfers control to a person who is intoxicated.
There will be no discounts in cases of repeated speeding, repeated travel on a red light or prohibiting gesture regulator for repeated traffic violations in leaving the lane designated for oncoming traffic, or on the tram tracks opposite direction. The same applies to cases of repeated movement in the opposite direction on one-way road, traffic violations or rules of operation of the vehicle, which caused mild or moderate injury to the victim’s health.
Note that measures to tighten liability for drunk driving are taken against the backdrop of recent statements by the Interior Ministry that the campaigns in this area ineffective and almost no effect on malignant violators of traffic rules. Thus, the Deputy Interior Minister, Colonel-General Viktor Kiryanov directly pointed out that the road is forced to think about strengthening control measures to control the car in a drunken state.
Already discusses more penalties for drunk drivers, including the confiscation of the vehicle at the worst offenders and sending them to forced treatment.
«precautions? Well that warn when five times a year, one and the same person comes for drunk driving? And then commits a traffic accident, and as a result people are dying, “- said the deputy head of the Interior Ministry.
Meanwhile Kiryanov has previously noted that the increase in the number of cases of drunk driving can be a” side effect “to install surveillance cameras on highways. Modern technology eliminates the need for traffic police to stop drivers for speeding, as well as for other offenses, such as reluctance to wear a seat with a view to fine them.
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