1. (A) Each employer shall require the information specified in Section 56-1-2050(C).

2. (B) An employer knowingly may not allow, permit, or authorize a person to drive a commercial motor vehicle during a period in which:

   1. (1) the person's commercial driver's license is suspended, revoked, or canceled by a state, has lost the privilege to drive a commercial motor vehicle in a state, is disqualified from driving a commercial motor vehicle, or is subject to an out-of-service order in a state;
   2. (2) the person has more than one driver's license, except during the ten- day period beginning on the date the employee is issued a driver's license;
   3. (3) an employer who knowingly allows, permits, or authorizes a person to drive a commercial motor vehicle during a period in which either the vehicle or the person is subject to an out-of-service order is subject to a civil penalty of not less than two thousand seven hundred fifty dollars nor more than eleven thousand dollars; or
   4. (4) the employer is in violation of a federal, state, or local law or regulation pertaining to railroad-highway grade crossings.
3. (C) An employer who is convicted of a violation of 49 CFR 383.37(d) is subject to a civil penalty of not more than ten thousand dollars.

HISTORY: 1989 Act No. 151, Section 2; 1998 Act No. 258, Section 19; 2005 Act No. 42, Section 5, eff May 3, 2005.

Effect of Amendment

The 2005 amendment, in subsection (B), in paragraph (3) substituted "two thousand seven hundred fifty dollars nor more than eleven thousand dollars" for "two thousand five hundred nor more than ten thousand dollars" and added item (4), and added subsection (C).