Local officials gearing up for Safe Roads Act
Friday, September 30, 1983The Daily Tar Heel3
From staff reports
Law enforcement and judicial officials from around
the state are gearing up for the Saturday start of the Safe
Roads Act.
The comprehensive set of laws, designed to assess stif
fer penalties for those who drink and then drive, raises
the drinking age to 19 for beer and wine and creates a
new driving while impaired offense. Containing 10 dif
, ferent provisions, the new laws represent a major change
from the old statutes and the driving under the influence
violation.
Orange County District Attorney Wade Barber says
his office is well-prepared to prosecute under the new
driving while impaired laws.
The district attorney's office will continue to set high
priority on drunk driving as it has in the last several
years, Barber said.
Although the new DWI cases may take more court
time, Barber said, the new laws would make convictions
more attainable.
Under the Safe Roads Act, plea bargaining is not
allowed. If a person is charged with DWI, the charge
cannot be reduced to a lesser included offense, such as
careless and reckless driving.
One imnrtrtv qHv-tace of the new Safe Roads Act,
Barber said, was that proof of DWl would be more
straightforward.
"Most of the alleged discrepancies with Breathalyzers
will be eliminated under the new law," Barber said,
"because the new law provides for an illegal alcohol
breath level, as well as illegal blood levels."
Public awareness of the new law is considerably high
for the state, as well as Chapel Hill, Barber said.
"Both professionally and personally, I am hearing the
new law mentioned several times a day," he said.
In addition to receiving public questions about the
law, Barber said that most of the comments he has heard
have been positive.
While the district attorney's office has braced itself for
the changing laws, local law enforcement agencies have
no special plans for enforcement.
Both Chapel Hill and Carrboro police officials said
there would be no change in the manner of DUI enforce
ment tonight as the Safe Roads Act becomes law at mid
night. "We're not going to handle midnight any differently,"
said Lt. Paul Mariette of the Carrboro Police Depart
ment. "We're going to continue to function as we always
have."
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Officer Gregg Jarvies of the Chapel Hill Police De
partment said the law really won't have an effect on
police enforcement.
"We usually look for 17-year-olds, but now we look
for both 17- and 18-year-olds (drinking illegally)," Jar
vies said.
Neither police department plans to increase the num
ber of officers on patrol. The department may add two
or three officers just to see what effect the law is having,
Jarvies said, but there will be no special crackdown.
Meanwhile, judicial officials around the state are fac
ing numerous changes in the way drunk-driving cases are
handled through the courts.
The Institute of Government, along with the state Ad
ministrative Office of the Courts, has helped court of
ficials learn how to handle DWI cases. Court clerks,
judges, district attorneys and magistrates attended
seminars administered by the IOG and the AOC.
IOG professor Dexter Watts, who helped coordinate
the seminars, said Thursday it was too early to tell
whether the new laws will create a backlog of court
cases.
"There's not been a law passed in a long time that has
so little play in it. It's very complete," Watts said.
"Nobody knows exactly how things will go."
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New D WI to replace former laws
The Associated Press
The Safe Roads Act will replace all
drunken driving laws with a single
driving-while-impaired offense. It will;
"Raise the drinking age from 18 to
19. :.
Eliminate plea bargaining,
, Automatically revoke a driver's
license for 10 days for refusing to take a
blood-alcohol test, ,
Require judges to consider ag
gravating and mitigating factors to deter
mine one of five levels of punishment.
The penalties range from a mandatory
minimum of 14 days in jail and a fine up .
to $2,000 to 24 hours in jail, 24 hours of
community service, a 30-day loss of driv
ing privileges or a combination of the
, Impose a one-year license revoca
tion for underage people who try to buy
alcoholic beverages, help someone else to
buy alcohol or try to use a fake iden
tification to buy alcoholic beverages.
Allow law-enforcement agencies to
set up roadblocks to check for impaired
drivers.'
Allow magistrates to hold impaired
drivers until they, are sober or until a
sober adult takes responsibility for them.
Require some people convicted of
impaired driving while "their license is
revoked for an earlier impaired driving
offense to forfeit their vehicle.
Make sellers of alcoholic beverages
liable for drinking-related damages
caused by underage people to whom they
sold alcohol. " " -
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The RCC has not yet compiled figures for the
third quarter of 1983. But Karen Winstead of
RCC said that this quarter has seen an increase
in the number of sexual crimes.
"The summer-months are always the worst,"
she said. "If the rate keeps occurring the way it
is, though, there will be an increase for the
year."
night to drink," said John Hartley, manager
of the Upper Deck.
The owners and managers said they had h?
little contact with law enforcement officers in
preparing for enforcement of the law.
"They know we're aware of the law and
that we have to enforce it whether we agree
with it or not," Miller said.
Greg Overbeck, bar manager at.Spanky's,
said he liked the new law because it placed
more liability on the customer. There are stif
fer penalties for those who try to buy beer il
legally and once a couple of those are arrested,
they won't have much problem with enforcing
the law, Overbeck said.
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