North Carolina General Statutes
Article 2 - Uniform Driver's License Act.
§ 20-17.8A - Tampering with ignition interlock systems.

20-17.8A. Tampering with ignition interlock systems.
Any person who tampers with, circumvents, or attempts to circumvent an ignition interlock device required to be installed on a motor vehicle pursuant to judicial order, statute, or as may be otherwise required as a condition for an individual to operate a motor vehicle, for the purpose of avoiding or altering testing on the ignition interlock device in the operation or attempted operation of a vehicle, or altering the testing results received or results in the process of being received on the ignition interlock device, is guilty of a Class 1 misdemeanor. Each act of tampering, circumvention, or attempted circumvention under this statute shall constitute a separate violation. (2011-381, s. 1.)

Structure North Carolina General Statutes

North Carolina General Statutes

Chapter 20 - Motor Vehicles

Article 2 - Uniform Driver's License Act.

§ 20-5 - Title of Article.

§ 20-7 - Issuance and renewal of drivers licenses.

§ 20-7.1 - Notice of change of address or name.

§ 20-7.3 - Availability of organ, eye, and tissue donor cards at motor vehicle offices.

§ 20-7.4 - License to Give Trust Fund established.

§ 20-7.5 - License to Give Trust Fund Commission established.

§ 20-7.6 - Powers and duties of the License to Give Trust Fund Commission.

§ 20-8 - Persons exempt from license.

§ 20-9 - What persons shall not be licensed.

§ 20-9.1 - Physicians, psychologists, and other medical providers providing medical information on drivers with physical or mental disabilities or diseases.

§ 20-9.2 - Selective service system registration requirements.

§ 20-9.3 - Notification of requirements for sex offender registration.

§ 20-10 - Age limits for drivers of public passenger-carrying vehicles.

§ 20-10.1 - Mopeds.

§ 20-11 - Issuance of limited learner's permit and provisional drivers license to person who is less than 18 years old.

§ 20-12.1 - Impaired supervision or instruction.

§ 20-13 - Suspension of license of provisional licensee.

§ 20-13.2 - Grounds for revoking provisional license.

§ 20-13.3 - Immediate civil license revocation for provisional licensees charged with certain offenses.

§ 20-14 - Duplicate licenses.

§ 20-15 - Authority of Division to cancel license or endorsement.

§ 20-15.1 - Revocations when licensing privileges forfeited.

§ 20-16 - Authority of Division to suspend license.

§ 20-16.01 - Double penalties for offenses committed while operating a commercial motor vehicle.

§ 20-16.1 - Mandatory suspension of driver's license upon conviction of excessive speeding; limited driving permits for first offenders.

§ 20-16.2 - Implied consent to chemical analysis; mandatory revocation of license in event of refusal; right of driver to request analysis.

§ 20-16.3 - Alcohol screening tests required of certain drivers; approval of test devices and manner of use by Department of Health and Human Services; use of test results or refusal.

§ 20-16.3A - Checking stations and roadblocks.

§ 20-16.5 - Immediate civil license revocation for certain persons charged with implied-consent offenses.

§ 20-17 - Mandatory revocation of license by Division.

§ 20-17.1 - Revocation of license of mental incompetents, alcoholics and habitual users of narcotic drugs.

§ 20-17.1A - Restoration of license for person adjudicated to be restored to competency.

§ 20-17.3 - Revocation for underage purchasers of alcohol.

§ 20-17.4 - Disqualification to drive a commercial motor vehicle.

§ 20-17.5 - Effect of disqualification.

§ 20-17.6 - Restoration of a license after a conviction of driving while impaired or driving while less than 21 years old after consuming alcohol or drugs.

§ 20-17.7 - Commercial motor vehicle out-of-service fines authorized.

§ 20-17.8 - Restoration of a license after certain driving while impaired convictions; ignition interlock.

§ 20-17.8A - Tampering with ignition interlock systems.

§ 20-17.9 - Revocation of commercial drivers license with a P or S endorsement upon conviction of certain offenses.

§ 20-18 - Conviction of offenses described in § 1 not ground for suspension or revocation.

§ 20-19 - Period of suspension or revocation; conditions of restoration[Effective until June 1, 2022]

§ 20-20.1 - Limited driving privilege for certain revocations.

§ 20-20.2 - Processing fee for limited driving privilege.

§ 20-21 - No operation under foreign license during suspension or revocation in this State.

§ 20-22 - Suspending privileges of nonresidents and reporting convictions.

§ 20-23 - Revoking resident's license upon conviction in another state.

§ 20-23.1 - Suspending or revoking operating privilege of person not holding license.

§ 20-23.2 - Suspension of license for conviction of offense involving impaired driving in federal court.

§ 20-24 - When court or child support enforcement agency to forward license to Division and report convictions, child support delinquencies, and prayers for judgment continued.

§ 20-24.1 - Revocation for failure to appear or pay fine, penalty or costs for motor vehicle offenses.

§ 20-24.2 - Court to report failure to appear or pay fine, penalty or costs.

§ 20-25 - Right of appeal to court.

§ 20-26 - Records; copies furnished; charge.

§ 20-27 - Availability of records.

§ 20-27.1 - Unlawful for sex offender to drive commercial passenger vehicle or school bus without appropriate commercial license or while disqualified.

§ 20-28 - (Effective until January 1, 2023) Unlawful to drive while license revoked, after notification, or while disqualified.

§ 20-28.1 - Conviction of moving offense committed while driving during period of suspension or revocation of license.

§ 20-28.2 - Forfeiture of motor vehicle for impaired driving after impaired driving license revocation; forfeiture for felony speeding to elude arrest.

§ 20-28.3 - Seizure, impoundment, forfeiture of motor vehicles for offenses involving impaired driving while license revoked or without license and insurance, and for felony speeding to elude arrest.

§ 20-28.4 - Release of impounded motor vehicles by judge.

§ 20-28.5 - Forfeiture of impounded motor vehicle or funds.

§ 20-28.7 - Responsibility of Division of Motor Vehicles.

§ 20-28.8 - Reports to the Division.

§ 20-28.9 - Authority for the State Surplus Property Agency to administer a statewide or regional towing, storage, and sales program for vehicles forfeited.

§ 20-29 - Surrender of license.

§ 20-29.1 - Commissioner may require reexamination; issuance of limited or restricted licenses.

§ 20-30 - (Effective until July 1, 2023) Violations of license, learner's permit, or special identification card provisions.

§ 20-31 - Making false affidavits perjury.

§ 20-32 - Unlawful to permit unlicensed minor to drive motor vehicle.

§ 20-34 - Unlawful to permit violations of this Article.

§ 20-34.1 - Violations for wrongful issuance of a drivers license or a special identification card.

§ 20-35 - Penalties for violating Article; defense to driving without a license.

§ 20-36 - Ten-year-old convictions not considered.

§ 20-37 - Limitations on issuance of licenses.

§ 20-37.01 - Drivers License Technology Fund.

§ 20-37.02 - Verification of drivers license information.