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Committee eases some traffic penalties, merges insurance offenses to reduce court burden
Summary
Sentencing Commission presented traffic-code amendments to convert two class C misdemeanors to infractions for lower-level school‑zone speeding and careless driving and to merge uninsured/proof-of-insurance offenses into a single class C misdemeanor with an affirmative defense; committee passed the amendments unanimously.
Daniel Strong, director of the Sentencing Commission, described three traffic-code amendments recommended by the commission’s anomalies subcommittee.
First, two class C misdemeanors tied to traffic offenses (e.g., school‑zone speeding in a lower range and certain careless driving) would be reduced to infractions to eliminate mandatory court appearances for minor violations that prosecutors already routinely treat…
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