HB 798 -- Forfeiture of Motor Vehicles

Co-Sponsors:  Hosmer, Blunt

This bill allows cities and counties to enact ordinances which
allow for the forfeiture of a motor vehicle operated by a person
who does not have a valid driver's license because of a
conviction for one or more alcohol-related traffic offenses or a
conviction of involuntary manslaughter as a result of operating
a motor vehicle in an intoxicated condition.

The bill also permits ordinances which allow for impoundment or
forfeiture of a motor vehicle for prior or persistent offenders
and for persons convicted of two or more intoxication-related
offenses and thereafter found by chemical test to have been
driving a motor vehicle with excessive blood-alcohol
concentration or have refused to submit to a chemical test.  The
bill sets out procedures to be followed in impoundments and
forfeitures.

The bill also allows a forfeiture action to be filed to seize
the vehicle of a person convicted of either driving under the
influence or driving with an excessive blood alcohol content if
the person is proved to have one or more prior alcohol-related
driving offenses.