(a) Any owner or operator who knowingly refuses or fails to make any report of an accident as required in section 15-104 shall be fined not more than one hundred dollars, and if any person is killed or injured in such accident, the executive director shall, in addition, suspend the operating privilege of the person failing to make such report, until such report is filed and for such further period not to exceed thirty days as the executive director may fix.
(b) Any owner or operator who knowingly makes a false statement or representation of a material fact in a report to or written instrument filed with the executive director shall be guilty of a class C misdemeanor.
(1959, P.A. 488, S. 14; 1969, P.A. 768, S. 206; 1972, P.A. 207, S. 9; P.A. 12-80, S. 168; P.A. 15-192, S. 58.)
History: 1969 act replaced “department”, i.e. aeronautics department, with “commissioner”, i.e. commissioner of transportation; 1972 act deleted references to registrations and nonresidents in Subsec. (a) and deleted Subsec. (c) re penalty for failure to return registrations; P.A. 12-80 amended Subsec. (b) to change penalty from a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $1,000 or imprisonment of not more than 90 days or both to a class C misdemeanor; P.A. 15-192 replaced “commissioner” with “executive director”, effective July 2, 2015.
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