Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 105 Part 3.djvu/189

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PUBLIC LAW 102-240—DEC. 18, 1991 105 STAT. 2073 SEC. 2004. ALCOHOL-IMPAIRED DRIVING COUNTERMEASURES. (a) IN GENERAL. — Section 410 of title 23, United States Code, is amended to read as follows: "§ 410. Alcohol-impaired driving countermeasures "(a) GENERAL AUTHORITY.— Subject to the provisions of this sec- Grants, tion, the Secretary shall make grants to those States which adopt and implement effective programs to reduce traffic safety problems resulting from persons driving while under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance. Such grants may only be used by recipient States to implement and enforce such programs. "(b) MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT. —No grant may be made to a State under this section in any fiscal year unless such State enters into such agreements with the Secretary as the Secretary may require to ensure that such State will maintain its aggregate expenditures from all other sources for alcohol traffic safety programs at or above the average level of such expenditures in its 2 fiscal years preceding the date of the enactment of the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991. "(c) BASIC GRANT ELIGIBILITY.—A State is eligible for a basic grant under this section in a fiscal year only if such State provides for 4 or more of the following: "(1) Establishes an expedited driver's license suspension or revocation system for persons who operate motor vehicles while under the influence of alcohol which requires that— "(A) when a law enforcement officer has probable cause under State law to believe a person has committed an alcohol-related traffic offense and such person is determined, on the basis of a chemical test, to have been under the influence of alcohol while operating the motor vehicle or refuses to submit to such a test as proposed by the - officer, the officer shall serve such person with a written notice of suspension or revocation of the driver's license of such person and take possession of such driver's license; "(B) the notice of suspension or revocation referred to in subparagraph (A) shall provide information on the administrative procedures under which the State may suspend or revoke in accordance with the objectives of this section a driver's license of a person for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol and shall specify any rights of the operator under such procedures; "(C) the State shall provide, in the administrative procedures referred to in subparagraph (B), for due process of law, including the right to an administrative review of a driver's license suspension or revocation within the time

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period specified in subparagraph (F); "(D) after serving notice and taking possession of a driver's license in accordance with subparagraph (A), the law enforcement officer immediately shall report to the State entity responsible for administering drivers' licenses all information relevant to the action taken in accordance with this clause; "(E) in the CEise of a person who, in any 5-year period beginning after the date of enactment of this section, is determined on the basis of a chemical test to have been operating a motor vehicle under the influence of alcohol or