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--- -- 1993 SESSION WRAP-UP · ~QIJ CRIME PREVENTION Street Crime. There will be life imprisonment Gun. . A statewide seven-day waiting period without parole for anyone who kills a peace for purchase of military assault weapons is officer or a corrections official. There will be enacted, with the same background check felony penalties for drive-by shootings, even now used for the purchase of pistols. when no one is wounded. Police officers Recklessly discharging a firearm within a can confiscate offenders' cars. Penalties for municipality will be a felony, as will a second participating in a riot are Increased. Those offense of illegally carrying a pistol. There will who are present may be charged with a felony be gross misdemeanor penalties for carrying when death or injury results even if it is unclear a rifle or shotgun In a public place, but several who caused the Injury. The crime of aiding reasonable exceptions are allowed. Devices another who Is known to have committed a that can enable weapons to fire at the rate of crime of violence by destroying evidence or machine guns will be prohibited. otherwise obstructing an investigation Is expanded. A child safety provision makes It a crime to negligently store or leave an unlocked, loaded Safe Schools - There' are new felony firearm In a location where the person knows penalties for bringing dangerous weapons or reasonably should know that a child is likely . onto school grounds or a school bus. Schools to gain access. Gun shops will have to post a will be required to report dangerous weapon notice about It. Local governments will be Incidents. The right of teachers and school able to adopt zoning ordinances to regulate officials to use force when necessary to the location of gun shops. prevent bodily harm is strengthened. A new provision prohibits retuming to school grounds DWI. Drivers under 21 will not be able to drink for six months after being told by the principal at all. The legal blood-alcohol concentration to leave the property. Penalties for selling or limit will be 0.02%, compared to 0.10% for possessing LSD near schools. parks or public those over 21. Anyone who commits a OWl housing are increased. when a child under 16 is a passenger in the vehicle will face higher penalties, if the child is Juveniles - A juvenile's driver's license will more than three years younger than the be revoked for any offense in which the violator. juvenile possessed a dangerous weapon, The Jail terms will be more likely for repeat crime of solicitation of juveniles to commit crimes is expanded, and there will be offenders. Ucense revocation periods are consecutive sentences for solicitation and the increased, the issuance of limited licenses to crime itself. A $5 million "Youthworks' persons convicted of OWl are restricted, and program is created to help youth who are at the laws on Impoundment of license plates risk of turning to crime, by improving their life and forfeiture of motor vehicles are strength- opportunities through literacy, job placement, ened. . and other essential skills. . J