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BEALE v. SECRETARY OF STATE4/18/1997
statute are revenue positive and include substantial increases in fines for violations of the OUI law. The amendments will directly result in increased revenue to the State, clearly contributing to resolving the problem the emergency preamble addresses. Other provisions of the amendments, such as increases in the length of terms of imprisonment and in the periods of suspension, although linked less directly to fiscal considerations, nevertheless are an integral part of the changes in the OUI law. They reflect a legislative determination that the operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants or with excessive blood alcohol is a more serious violation that requires increased jail time and longer periods of suspension as well as increased monetary fines. Beale and Verrill's challenges are to the suspension periods enacted as part of the new law. Section 16, however, does not require that each individual section of the amendments to the OUI law, enacted as an important part of an emergency fiscal bill, be examined separately for different effective dates as long as the OUI amendments generally are related to the stated preamble. Because the changes to the OUI laws were constitutionally enacted as part of emergency legislation, its provisions became effective June 29, 1995, were in effect on July 1, 1995, and validly apply to the administrative suspensions imposed on Beale and Verrill.
The entry is:
Judgments affirmed.
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