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1989

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CHAPTER 241 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR SUSPENSION OF A LICENSE TO OPERATE A MOTOR VEHICLE UPON CONVICTION OF VIOLATION OF THE CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE ACT.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:

Section 22 of chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 1988 Official Edition, is hereby amended by adding the following paragraph:-

(f) The registrar shall suspend, without hearing, the license or right to operate of a person who is convicted of a violation of any provision of chapter ninety-four C or adjudged a delinquent child by reason of having violated any provision of chapter ninety-four C; provided, however, that the period of such suspension shall not exceed five years; provided further, that any person so convicted who is under the age of eighteen years or who is adjudged a delinquent child by reason of having violated any provision of chapter ninety-four C, and is not licensed to operate a motor vehicle shall, at the discretion of the presiding judge, not be so licensed for a period no later than when such person reaches the age of twenty-one years.

Approved July 17, 1989.