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Impaired Driving & TransportationHybrid
§320.13

Dangerous Operation

Dangerous operation

Impaired Driving
Maximum Sentence

10 years (bodily harm) / life (death)

Classification: Hybrid
🍁 Immigration Impact

Hybrid offence. If proceeded by indictment with max sentence of 10+ years, this is serious criminality under IRPA s.36(1). Even summary proceedings create inadmissibility under s.36(2) as the offence is punishable by indictment.

Legal Text — Criminal Code s. 320.13

Everyone commits an offence who operates a conveyance in a manner that, having regard to all of the circumstances, is dangerous to the public. Everyone commits an offence who operates a conveyance in a manner that, having regard to all of the circumstances, is dangerous to the public and causes bodily harm. Everyone commits an offence who operates a conveyance in a manner that, having regard to all of the circumstances, is dangerous to the public and causes the death of another person.

Amendment History (1)
2018, c. 21, s. 15
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