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16. Law on People Who Have Habit in Violating Traffic Law

People who having habits of violating the law are people who:

• Drunk while driving
• Drive with carelessly
• Crush into other vehicle and run away
• Use vehicle to kill others
• Driving without driving license or driving license has been suspended.
• Driving with expired driving license
• Driving with fake driving license

Base on Article 72 in Law on Land Traffic which Senate approved to be organized according to law standard on Jan 16, 2007 stated that:

• Any officials or agents responsible for traffic order used their power to confiscate the driving license, number plate, identification card or keeping the driver’s vehicle, shall be jailed from 6 (six) days to one (1) month and or fined from 25,000 Riel to 200,000 Riel.
• In case the vehicles are damaged or lost any parts due to the detaining, the entity shall be responsible for the payment. If the level of violation of the police officers or the traffic agents is too serious, the entity can demand the compensation from the police officers or traffic agents.
• The police officers or traffic agents shall be imprisoned from one (1) year to three (3) years and/or fine from two millions (2,000,000) Riels to six millions (6,000,000) Riels to any traffic officers or traffic agents that:
• Forced and demanded the fining money against the amounts set by the law
• Obtaining money by using the incorrect fining tickets or do not issue fining tickets to the fined driver.

• Article 73

In the case the driving license has to be suspended or nullified and that the drivers disagree to give the driving license in accordance with the defined time, shall be punished by jailing from one (1) day to five (5) days and fined from five thousand (5,000) Riels to twenty five thousand (25,000) Riels.

• Article 74

Those who are driving the vehicles without the driving licenses or in the time their driving licenses are removed, suspended, or nullified, shall be jailed from six days to one month and fined from Riel 25,000 to Riel 200,000.

• Article 74

Those who are hampering or interfering to the stop of vehicle or do not stop their vehicles in accordance with traffic police's order or refused from being checked or disagreed from doing the breathalyzing test or drug test, shall be punished by jailing from six days to one month and fined from 25,000 Riel to 200,000 Riel

• Article 77

Those who are using the driving license, vehicle identification card, or other permission letters by knowing that they are fake and those who falsify the driving license, identification card or other documents for trafficking along the roads, will be punished by putting in the prison from two years to five years and fined from 4,000,000 Riel to 10,000,000 Riel.

• Article 79

Those who are driving without driving license, vehicle identification card, and number plate shall be imprisoning from six days to one month and/or fined from 25,000 Riels, to 200,000 Riels.

• Article 80

Those who are driving by causing the injuries to the others unintentionally or disabled the others from doing their work equal to or more than eight days shall be imprisoning from six days to one year, and/or fined from 25,000 Riels to 2,000,000 Riels.

The drivers shall be punished in maximum level when they committed offenses in the following cases:

a. Driving without driving license or with driving license but is not properly used as defined

b) Driving when they are drunk with the alcoholic rate from 0.40mg per liter of air, or from0.80g per liter of blood

c) Provoking injuries to many people

d) Escaping from the accident place for the purpose of irresponsibility

• Article 81

Those who are driving by unintentionally provoking the permanent injuries to the others shall be imprisoned from one year to three years and/or fined from 2,000,000 Riels to 6,000,000 Riels.

The drivers shall be punished in maximum level when they committed offenses in the following

cases:

a) Driving without driving license or with driving license but is not properly used as defined

b) Driving when they are drunk with the alcoholic rate from 0.40mg per liter of air, or from 0.80g per liter of blood

c) Provoking injuries to many people

d) Escaping from accident place for the purpose of irresponsibility