Driving When Privilege Suspended or Revoked
Causing Injury: Special Penalties
(a) It is unlawful for any person, while driving a vehicle
with a license suspended or revoked pursuant to Section
14601.2 to do any act forbidden by law or neglect any duty
imposed by law in the driving of the vehicle, which act
or neglect proximately causes bodily injury to any person
other than the driver. In proving the person neglected any
duty imposed by law in the driving of the vehicle, it is
not necessary to prove that any specific section of this
code was violated.
(b) Any person convicted under this section shall be imprisoned
in the county jail and shall not be released upon work release,
community service, or any other release program before the
minimum period of imprisonment, prescribed in Section 14601.2,
is served. If a person is convicted of that offense and
is granted probation, the court shall require that the person
convicted serve at least the minimum time of imprisonment,
as specified in those sections, as a term or condition of
probation.
(c) When the prosecution agrees to a plea of guilty or
nolo contendere to a charge of a violation of this section
in satisfaction of, or as a substitute for, an original
charge of a violation of Section 14601.2, and the court
accepts that plea, except, in the interest of justice, when
the court finds it should be inappropriate, the court shall,
pursuant to Section 23575, require the person convicted,
in addition to any other requirements, to install a certified
ignition interlock device on any vehicle that the person
owns or operates for a period not to exceed three years.
(d) This section also applies to the operation of an off-highway
motor vehicle on those lands to which the Chappie-Z'berg
Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Law of 1971 (Division 16.5 (commencing
with Section 38000)) applies as to off-highway motor vehicles,
as described in Section 38001.
Amended Sec. 9, Ch. 1064, Stats. 2000. Effective September
30, 2000.Amended Sec. 18, Ch. 908, Stats. 2004. Effective
January 1, 2005.
