2025 Session
Last amended: 2000 session
§ 169A.09 — Determining Qualified Prior Dwi Incidents
Plain-Language Summary
When counting your prior DWI incidents, each one must come from a separate event. If a single DWI arrest resulted in both a conviction and a license revocation, only one of those counts as a prior incident, not both.
169A.09 DETERMINING QUALIFIED PRIOR DWI INCIDENTS.
Prior impaired driving convictions and prior impaired driving-related losses of license must arise out of a separate course of conduct to be considered as multiple qualified prior impaired driving incidents under this chapter. When a person has a prior impaired driving conviction and a prior impaired driving-related loss of license based on the same course of conduct, either the conviction or the loss of license may be considered a qualified prior impaired driving incident, but not both.
History:
History: History:
2000 c 478 art 1 s 5
Practical Notes
This matters when prosecutors determine whether to charge you with a more serious degree of DWI. Prior incidents must be from separate arrests or events to count as multiple priors. One arrest cannot be double-counted.