DUI Montana Drug & Alcohol Rehab Treatment

Your first DUI conviction will cost you between 300 and 1,000 dollars just for the fine. There is a mandatory 24 hours of jail time that you will have to serve, but the court could extend that to six months maximum. But the consequences become higher if at the time of the arrest you had a minor under the age of sixteen in the car. In that case, the minimum jail time is 2 days and maximum is a year. The fine starts at six hundred dollars and the maximum is two thousand dollars.

The second DUI offense in Montana gets you six hundred to a thousand dollar fine. The mandatory jail time is a full week but it could go up to six months. But under the circumstance described above, the consequences are much worse. If a minor was involved, as mentioned in the first offense, the minimum fine is $1,200 and maximum is $2,000. You will have to spend at least two weeks in jail and that could go up to a full year. The ignition interlock may be requested on your car(s). You won’t be allowed to drive for a full year.

On the third drunk driving offense, you will have to serve a jail sentence of a month, but that could even go up to a year. The fine you will have to pay will be between 1,000 and 5,000 dollars. The minimum license suspension is a year. If the special circumstance mentioned previously happened, you will have to pay between 2,000 and 10,000 dollars as a fine. And the jail time you would have to serve would be between two and twelve months.

On your fourth DUI charge, you will considered a felony by the state of Montana, you will have to pay a fine of 10,000 dollars and serve a jail sentence of up to five years. There are also some laws for people addicted to drug and alcohol that are driving while on the effect of it.

^{United States DUI Laws 2006, 27 June 2009 <http://dui.drivinglaws.org/montana.php>}

 

 

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