The Nonresident Violator Compact (NRVC) is an agreement between certain states to respect each other’s traffic citations by suspending or revoking driving privileges in a person’s home state of licensure when that person has an unsatisfied citation-related obligation to another state which is a member of the NRVC. This is accomplished by placing a NRVC […]
The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles has stepped up its efforts to suspend driver’s licenses for out of state convictions, especially those for operating under the influence, reckless driving, Motor Vehicle Homicide, and other related motor vehicle offenses. The Registry is legally allowed to penalize a Massachusetts resident or license holder who is convicted of
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The Mass. Registry of Motor Vehicles imposes 10-year license revocations for ignition interlock violations, such as missed rolling retests, failed rolling re-tests, initial start violations, tampering, circumvention, and disconnection. Not all of these revocations are legally valid and I have reversed many of them on appeal. There are thousands of ignition interlock devices currently in
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The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles has recently made some changes to its operations regarding out of state suspensions and motor vehicle violations, so more incidents will not appear on your Massachusetts Driving Record. Under G.L. c. 90 § 22(c), the Registry is required to suspend or revoked your Massachusetts Driver’s License if your right
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My office receives a large number of inquiries from people who want to get convictions and responsible findings removed from their driving records. Unfortunately, I have no “magic eraser” and this cannot be done. If you are arrested for Operating Under the Influence, for example, and you fail or refuse to take the breath test,
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As a result of the tragic death of 7 motorcyclists in New Hampshire, caused by Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, MassDOT recently discovered that the Registry of Motor Vehicles has not processed paper out of state suspension notices since March of 2018, when that function was apparently transferred from the Registry’s Driver Control Unit (Suspension Department) to the
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On June 21, 2019, Volodymyr Zhukovskyy, the holder of a Massachusetts Commercial Driver’s License (CDL) killed 7 motorcyclists in New Hampshire. His Driver’s License should have been indefinitely revoked because he was arrested for DUI in Connecticut on May 11, 2019 and he refused to submit to a breath test. There is a nationwide system
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If the Registry has suspended your license due to a chemical test refusal (CTR) or an immediate threat complaint, you will not automatically have your license reinstated, even if you are found not guilty of Operating Under the Influence or even if the DUI charges have been dismissed in court. The license suspension or revocation
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The Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles has recently started imposing 10-year license revocations for initial start ignition interlock violations. This is a drastic departure from the past practice of excusing these violations on the grounds that the program is working as intended. The purpose of the ignition interlock program is to separate drinking from driving
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