SENATE DOCKET, NO. 1048        FILED ON: 1/13/2009

SENATE  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  .  No. 1834

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts

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In the Year Two Thousand Nine

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An Act increasing penalties for driving without a license or registration..

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

SECTION 1. Section 20 of chapter 90 of the General Laws, as appearing in the 2004 official edition, is hereby amended in line 10 by striking the words “of not less than one hundred nor more than two hundred dollars” and further amended by inserting in place thereof the following:-

of five hundred dollars for a first offense, by a fine of not less than five hundred nor more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than ten days, or both, for a second offense, by a fine of not less than one thousand nor more than two thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or both, for any subsequent offense.