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Law No. 13 of 1998 on Road Traffic

Law Summary Record Type: LawNumber: 13Date: 30/07/1998 Corresponding to 06/04/1419 HijriNumber of Articles: 82Status: Canceled

Official Gazette :Issue: 9Offcial Journal Issue Publication Date: 07/09/1998 Corresponding to 16/05/1419 HijriPage from: 65

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65 Article - Amended

Without prejudice to any greater penalty provided for by another law, an offender who violates the provisions of Articles (31, last paragraph), (45 paragraph 1-2), (58) of the present Law, shall be sentenced either to imprisonment for not less than one (1) month and not more than six (6) months and/or to a fine of not less than six thousand (6,000) riyals and not more than twelve thousand (12,000) riyals.

66 Article

Without prejudice to any greater penalty provided for by another law, an offender who violates the provisions of Articles (37), (38), (39), (61), (62), (63) of the present law, shall be sentenced either to imprisonment for not less than one (1) month and not more than six (6) months and/or to a fine of not less than one thousand (1,000) riyals and not more than six thousand (6,000) riyals

67 Article

Each other contravention to the provisions of this law or the bylaws or resolutions issued for its implementation, shall be punished with imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months and not less than one week and a fine of not more than one thousand (1000) riyals and not less than one hundred (100) riyals, or either of them.

68 Article

The penalty shall be doubled at its minimum and maximum limits, if the defendant repeated the offence within six months of a similar offense of which he was convicted.

69 Article

Without prejudice to the penalties and other measures provided for in the present Law, the court may order the suspension of the driving license, or vehicle license including number plates, or both, for not less than one (1) month and not more than six (6) months, if the accused is convicted of one of the following offences:

1. One of the traffic offences provided for in Chapters Two and Four of the present Law.
2. One of the traffic offences provided for in Articles (18), (24), (25), (26), (27), (28), (30) in Chapter Three of the present Law.
Causing accidental death or injury due to violation of road traffic rules, or wrongly driving any motor vehicle or lack of safety and durability.

Where the offender is sentenced to both a term of imprisonment and suspension of the driving license, the suspension shall take effect after the sentence has been served.

70 Article

It is not permissible to order the halt of the implementation of sanctions imposed by this law, if the defendant returned within six months of being convicted of committing similar offence to the same offence.

71 Article

Without prejudice to the sanctions and other measures stipulated in this Law:

1 - The Director of the Traffic Department or his designee, may administratively order the withdrawal of the driver's license, or the vehicle license including the number plates, or both, for a period not exceeding three (3) months if any one of offenses set forth in article (69) are committed.

2 - The withdrawal order referred to, shall be issued on the basis of a memorandum submitted to the Director of the Traffic Department or his designee, from the policeman who filed the incident or the investigator who is investigating; enclosed with the licenses and the plates to be withdrawn.

3 - Where the judgment includes the withdrawal of a driver's license, or vehicle license together with the number plates, or both, the administrative withdrawal period shall be calculated from the time of issuing the judgment. Inevitably, the withdrawal order shall terminate upon issuing of the judgment in the criminal case.

72 Article - Amended

The Director of the Traffic Department or his designee may order any motor vehicle to be impounded for a period not exceeding ninety (90) days on the basis of the memorandum produced by the person who witnessed or investigated the incident, in the following cases:

Driving on the road without number plates or with plates not issued by the Traffic Department, or replacement of plates with different plates, even if these contain the same data, or changing the data thereof.
Driving on the road after the suspension of a vehicle license.
Breach of the terms of using commercial plates or testing plates or temporary entry plates.
Driving by a person who does not hold a driving license, or if the license is not valid for driving such a vehicle.
Driving recklessly or negligently in such a way as to risk the life of the driver or other passengers.
Driving vehicle not fulfilling the terms and conditions of safety and durability or one without a silencer or driving without brakes, or with insufficient lighting during night.
Participation in a race on the road without written authorization or in violation of the license conditions.
Committing or allowing an obscene act in the vehicle.
Traffic light offences.
Finding the driver under the influence of alcohol or drugs or other psychotropic substances.
Use of the vehicle for purposes other than those set out in the vehicle license.
Use of the vehicle after substantial changes has been made to its structure or colour in violation of the provisions of this law.
Driving in the opposite direction to the flow of traffic or reversing or turning in the opposite direction to the flow of traffic.
Emission of thick smoke or irritating noises.
Use of any means to tint glass, without permit.
Abandoning a vehicle on the road.

The impounded vehicle may not be surrendered to its owner, unless the cause of the impounding is remedied, and after payment of all fees and fines, and the expenses of impounding.

72 Article BIS

The cost of impounding shall be calculated as follows:

One hundred and fifty (150) riyals for transporting a motor vehicle.
One hundred and fifty (150) riyals for each day impounded.

If the vehicle's owner does not collect his vehicle and pay the due fines within six months from the date of impounding, the Licensing Authority shall, After making sure that there is no legal encumber, decide to sell the impounded vehicle at auction. The auction shall be announced in two daily newspapers during a period of not less than ten days from the date of announcement. The required expenses shall be paid out of the vehicle's sale proceeds and the balance shall be reserved as a trust on the owner account, but if the sale price is not sufficient to cover all the dues, the balance shall be collected through legal process from the owner. Where the causes of impounding were removed and after payment of all fees, fines and impounded expenses, the impounded vehicle owner or his legal representative reserves the right to claim the vehicle before sale.

73 Article

Without prejudice to the penalties provided for in this law, a vehicle, whose owner fails to renew its license in time, shall not be renewed, unless after paying the prescribed license fee for the duration of the delay, in addition to a fine of one riyal for every day.

74 Article

The fines prescribed under this law shall be paid within thirty days from the date of the notifying the offender. In the case of late payment during that period, the fine shall be increased by 10% per month.

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