Traffic safety classes.

WORKING DRAFT
2005
STATE OF WYOMING
05LSO-0041

HOUSE BILL
NO.
HB0034

Traffic safety classes.

Sponsored by:
Representative(s) Walsh, Esquibel and Latta and Senator(s) Cooper, Geis, Johnson and Vasey

A BILL

for

AN ACT relating to traffic safety courses; authorizing courts to send traffic offenders to a traffic safety course as specified; providing that completion of a traffic safety course shall be acceptable in lieu of an adjudication for the traffic offense; providing that department of transportation records of traffic offenses shall not include citations issued to persons who have completed a traffic safety course as specified; and providing for an effective date.

Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Wyoming:

Section 1.
W.S. 31
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1215 is created to read:

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Attendance at traffic safety course; requirements; procedures.

(a)

As used in this section, "traffic offense" means those forfeitable offenses set forth as traffic offenses, speeding violations, and commercial vehicle violations in the Uniform Bail and Forfeiture Schedule, Appendix to Rule 3.1, Wyo. R. Cr. P. or municipal ordinances which substantially conform to the provisions set forth as traffic offenses, speeding violations, and commercial vehicle violations in the Uniform Bail and Forfeiture Schedule, Appendix to Rule 3.1, Wyo. R. Cr. P.

(b)

In lieu of adjudicating a traffic offense, and with the consent of the defendant, the court may order any person issued a notice to appear for a traffic violation to pay the bail for the traffic offenses charged and attend a traffic safety course.

(c)

Any person ordered to attend a traffic safety course may choose the traffic safety course he will attend from a list approved by the court. The court shall make available to the person subject to an order the current list of traffic safety courses approved by the court.

(d)

Notwithstanding subsection (c) of this section, a court may not order a person to attend a traffic safety course in lieu of adjudicating an offense if the person was arrested, cited or issued a summons for a violation of W.S. 31
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233 or a municipal ordinance which substantially conforms to the provisions of W.S. 31
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234 or a municipal ordinance which substantially conforms to the provisions of W.S. 31
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(e)

The person who is ordered to attend a traffic safety course shall, in addition to payment of the bail for the traffic offenses charged, subsequently provide the clerk of court with documentation of successful completion of the course within the time period prescribed by the court.

(f)

Payment of the bail as required under subsection (b) of this section and timely and successful completion of a traffic safety course shall result in a dismissal of the traffic offenses for which the person was charged and which resulted in the order to attend the course and the citations issued for those traffic offenses shall not appear on the abstracts or records of the department maintained under W.S. 31
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(g)

No person may have a traffic offense citation dismissed under this section more than one (1) time in an eighteen (18) month period as a result of completion of a traffic safety course.

Section 2.

This act is effective July 1, 2005.

(END)

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