§ 31-49-4 - Warning label.
SECTION 31-49-4
§ 31-49-4 Warning label. – (a) The division of motor vehicles shall design and adopt a warning label to beaffixed to an ignition interlock system on installation. The warning labelshall state that a person tampering with, circumventing, or otherwise misusingthe ignition interlock system is guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, issubject to a fine up to five hundred dollars ($500), or one year imprisonment,or both.
(2) If the court imposes the use of an ignition interlocksystem, the sentencing judge shall cause an appropriate notation to be made onthe person's record which clearly sets forth the requirement for and the periodof the use of the system.
(b) In addition to the requirements of subsection (a) of thissection, the court shall:
(1) Require proof of the installation of the system andperiodic reporting by the person for the purpose of verification of the properoperation of the system; and
(2) Require the person to have the system monitored for theproper use and accuracy by a person, firm, corporation or other association tobe approved by the department of revenue at least once every six (6) months, ormore frequently as the circumstances may require; and
(3) Shall require the person to pay the reasonable cost ofleasing or buying, monitoring and maintenance of the system.
(c) A person prohibited under this section from operating amotor vehicle that is not equipped with an ignition interlock system may notsolicit or have another person attempt to start or start a motor vehicleequipped with an ignition interlock system.
(d) A person may not attempt to start or start a motorvehicle equipped with an ignition interlock system for the purpose of providingan operable motor vehicle to a person who is prohibited under this section fromoperating a motor vehicle that is not equipped with an ignition interlocksystem.
(e) A person may not tamper with, or in any way attempt tocircumvent, the operation of an ignition interlock system that has beeninstalled in the motor vehicle of a person under this section.
(f) Subject to the provisions of subdivision (2) of thissubsection, a person may not knowingly furnish a motor vehicle not equippedwith a functioning ignition interlock system to another person who the personknows is prohibited under subsection (b) of this section from operating a motorvehicle not equipped with an ignition interlock system.
(2) If a person is required, in the course of the person'semployment, to operate a motor vehicle owned or provided by the person'semployer, the person may operate that motor vehicle in the course of theperson's employment without installation of an ignition interlock system if thecourt has expressly permitted the person to operate in the course of theperson's employment a motor vehicle that is not equipped with an ignitioninterlock system.
(g) Any person who shall violate the provisions of thissection shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.