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IGNITION INTERLOCKS * USA - New California laws impose more ones
Two bills signed into law are intended to increase the use of ignition interlock devices for drunken drivers
Sacramento,CAL,USA -Land Line Magazine, by Keith Goble -October 14, 2008: -- ... Sen. Jenny Oropeza, D-Long Beach, bill, makes it easier to require the installation of the devices in vehicles of motorists cited for drunken driving. The new law, lowers the blood alcohol content threshold from 0.20 percent to 0.15 percent for when judges can require interlock devices as punishment for drunken driving... Interlocks are hooked up to the ignitions of vehicles. Once such a device is installed, a driver must blow into a mouthpiece, which measures the amount of alcohol on a person’s breath. If the driver blows clean, the car will then start; if not, it won’t budge... In addition, the devices often require drivers to re-blow in the machine after a designated period of time, to ensure that they have not convinced someone else to blow into the mouthpiece for them, or that they haven’t been drinking since getting behind the wheel...
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