{"schemaVersion":1,"recordType":"legal-article","id":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:article:248","workId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015","expressionId":"law:eri:code:penal:2015:en","title":"Driving While Intoxicated","number":"248","language":"en","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/248/","hierarchy":{"part":"PART II — THE SPECIAL PART","book":"BOOK II — OFFENCES AGAINST THE INTERESTS OF THE STATE","title":null,"chapter":"Chapter 11. — Offences against Public Safety"},"paragraphs":[{"id":"lead","number":"","text":"Unless a more severe penalty is provided by any other legislation in effect, a person who operates a motor vehicle while his ability to operate the vehicle is impaired by alcohol or drugs, the amount of alcohol or the amount and type of drug that impairs one’s ability to operate the vehicle as determined by regulations issued or to be issued, is guilty of driving while intoxicated, a Class 3 petty offence, punishable with a definite term of imprisonment of not more than 1 month, or a fine of 500 – 5,000 Nakfas, to be set in intervals of 500 Nakfas.","canonicalUrl":"https://eriatlas.com/law/penal-code-2015/article/248/#lead","sourceTargets":[{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":185,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/185/?article=248&paragraph=lead#article-248-lead"},{"sourceId":"penal-code-2015-en","pdfPage":186,"url":"https://eriatlas.com/sources/penal-code-2015/page/186/?article=248&paragraph=lead#article-248-lead"}]}],"caution":"English-language 2015 Ministry of Justice edition. Refworld catalogues this English expression as an unofficial translation; Eri Atlas has not independently verified the translation."}