A legislative oversight from five years ago has been corrected.
Sponsored by Rep. Kurt Daudt (R-Crown) and Sen. Sean Nienow (R-Cambridge), the law fixes some problems when legislative changes were made to allow enhanced sentences for DWI offenses.
In particular, a statutory reference was misstated and has since caused some legal problems.
When the law was changed and the statute was renumbered, reorganized and relisted some of the criminal vehicular operation offenses used different numbers, but that didn’t carry over to the felony DWI statute.
The law is effective April 24, 2012, one day after it was signed by Gov. Mark Dayton.
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