WHAT THE WORDS MEAN

Also called medical cannabis limit

The medical cannabis a qualifying patient and primary caregiver hold together, not more than ten cannabis plants and four ounces of usable cannabis at any given time.

Also called ADLRO, license revocation after a DUI arrest

The revocation of a license that follows a notice issued at the arrest, decided by the director apart from the criminal case.

Also called a prior

An administrative revocation, a suspension or revocation for refusing an alcohol test anywhere, or a conviction here or elsewhere for driving with an unlawful alcohol concentration or under the influence of alcohol.

Also called lethal force

Force used with the intent of causing, or known to create a substantial risk of causing, death or serious bodily harm; firing a gun toward a person is deadly force.

Also called domestic violence

Physical harm, bodily injury, assault or their imminent threat, extreme psychological abuse, coercive control, or malicious property damage between family or household members.

Also called home solicitation sale

A sale solicited in person and signed somewhere other than the seller's business address, among others the section lists.

Also called gun case

A rigidly constructed receptacle, or a commercially made gun case, that completely encloses the firearm.

Also called expungement

An order from the attorney general annulling, canceling and rescinding the record of an arrest that did not end in a conviction for a crime.

Also called public record

Information an agency maintains in written, auditory, visual, electronic or other physical form, open to public inspection unless a law restricts or closes it.

Also called felony DUI

Someone convicted two or more times within ten years of operating a vehicle under the influence, or one or more times of the habitual offense.

Also called high BAC

A driver with .15 or more grams of alcohol per one hundred milliliters of blood, or per two hundred ten liters of breath.

Also called holding over

A tenant staying in possession after the rental agreement ends without the landlord's consent, liable for up to twice the monthly rent prorated by the day.

Also called interlock permit

A permit the court issues, on proof of an interlock installed in every vehicle the defendant operates and of insurance, to drive an equipped vehicle during the revocation.

Also called consent to a breath test

Anyone who operates a vehicle on a public way, street, road or highway, or on or in the waters of the State, is deemed to have consented to a test of breath, blood or urine approved by the director of health.

Also called DUI checkpoint, sobriety checkpoint

A county police roadblock that stops every vehicle, or vehicles in a set numerical pattern, at a fixed place for no more than three hours, under minimum standards the statute sets.

Also called shared custody

An order giving both parents legal custody and sharing physical custody under a parenting plan, for frequent, continuing and meaningful contact with both.

Also called lemon law period

The term of the manufacturer's express warranty, two years from original delivery, or the first 24,000 miles, whichever comes first.

Also called zero tolerance, .02

A test result of .02 or more but less than .08 grams of alcohol, in blood or in breath.

Also called unwanted contact

Any contact without a person's consent, or in disregard of their express desire that it be avoided or stopped, in person, by phone, fax or any electronic communication including email.

Also called traffic ticket, citation

The notice a driver receives for a traffic infraction, answered within 21 days of its issue by admitting, denying, or admitting with an explanation.

Also called OVUII, DUI, drunk driving

Operating or assuming actual physical control of a vehicle while impaired by alcohol or a drug, or with .08 or more grams of alcohol per two hundred ten liters of breath or per one hundred milliliters of blood.

Also called gun permit, purchase permit

The permit from the chief of police that anyone acquiring ownership of a firearm, by purchase, gift, inheritance or otherwise, gets first.

Also called PM

The lowest grade of crime, punishable by up to 30 days in jail.

Also called PC

Facts and circumstances, within an officer's knowledge or from reasonably trustworthy information, enough for a person of reasonable caution to believe a crime has been or is being committed.

Also called fix and deduct

Where the landlord does not start repairs in time, the tenant may have the work done competently and deduct the actual cost from rent, up to $1,000 or one month's rent, whichever is greater, on giving the landlord receipts.

Also called damage deposit

Money held by the landlord for unpaid rent, damage, keys, cleaning, wrongful quitting, pet damage and unpaid utilities the landlord provided, no more than one month's rent plus a pet deposit.

Also called retail theft

Concealing or taking a store's goods, altering a price tag, or moving goods between containers, with intent to defraud.

Also called trespassing

Knowingly entering or remaining unlawfully in or upon premises, a violation.

Also called eviction case

The proceeding that restores possession of premises held without right after a tenancy ends, leading to a judgment and a writ of possession.

Also called threats charge

Threatening, by word or conduct, bodily injury, serious damage to property including pets or livestock, or a felony, with intent to terrorize or in reckless disregard of that risk.

Also called non criminal offense

An offense punishable only by a fine, forfeiture or other civil penalty. A violation does not constitute a crime.

Also called abandoning a rental

A tenant absent for twenty days or more without written notice to the landlord, during a period no rent was paid for, is deemed to have wrongfully quit.