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Thursday, September 06, 2007

Law on Land Traffic; Chapter X: penalties, fines

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 Riel 4,000,000 to Riel 10,000,000.

ARTICLE 78:
Those who are using the means to provoke the obstacle to the public traffic will be punished by putting in the prison from one month to one year and fined from Riel 200,000 to Riel 2,000,000.

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 0.40 mg per liter of air, or from 0.80 g 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 0.40 mg per liter of air, or from 0.80 g per liter of blood.
c) Provoking injuries to many people.
d) Escaping from accident place for the purpose of irresponsibility.

ARTICLE 82:

Those who are unintentionally driving and provoking the death accident 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:
e) Driving without driving license or with driving license but is not properly used as defined.
f) Driving when they are drunk with the alcoholic rate from 0.40 mg per liter of air, or from 0.80 g per liter of blood.
g) Provoking injuries to many people.
h) Escaping from accident place for the purpose of irresponsibility.

ARTICLE 83:
Those who are willingly driving and causing the injuries, disabilities, or death to the others will be punished in compliance with the penal code.

ARTICLE 84:
Overloading the limited maximum weight on the axles of the vehicles and overloading the limited maximum weight of the vehicles shall be punished as the following:

1. Less than 5% shall have a written warning without fining.

2. More than 5% to 10%, the drivers shall:
a) Be fined 100,000 Riels per ton
b) Unload the goods and detain the vehicle for ten days
c) Take away the driving license and suspended it for ten days.

3 More than 10% to 20%, the drivers shall:
a) Be fined 200,000 Riels per ton.
b) Unload the goods and detain the vehicles for one month.
c) Take away the driving license and suspended it for six months.

4 More than 20%, the driver shall:
a) Be fined 300,000 Riel per ton.
b) Unload the good and detain the vehicles for one year.
c) Take away the driving license and suspended it for two years.
In case that there are an offenses on the total loading weight on vehicles and including the offense on overloading weight on axles, it shall be fined on the two cases.
In case the drivers are still committing the offences, the fining will be doubled and stopped the transportation business for one year. The owner of the vehicles shall be responsible for the cost of loading and reloading goods and renting cost of the place to keep the goods and the vehicles.
The above punishment shall not be the obstacle of the judge decision on the case of damaging infrastructure causing from the overloading goods on the vehicles.

ARTICLE 85:
The parents who are allowing their children with their ages under 6 years old walking freely on the public roads and causing traffic accidents shall be asked to responsible for the civil code.

ARTICLE 86:
Those who are freeing their feeding animals to walk freely on the public roads, causing the traffic accident, shall be asked to responsible for the civil code.

ARTICLE 87:
Any government staffs who not follow this article 47 shall be responsible for the administrative law.
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