{"id":162,"date":"2012-11-07T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-11-07T11:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/?p=162"},"modified":"2013-06-25T13:42:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-25T19:42:36","slug":"what-happens-if-i-refuse-a-chemical-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/what-happens-if-i-refuse-a-chemical-test\/","title":{"rendered":"What Happens If I Refuse A Chemical Test?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri&#8217;s implied consent law requires a driver to submit to a chemical test when requested by a law enforcement officer. If the driver refuses (refused to blow), the arresting officer will make note of this and take\u00a0possession\u00a0of your driver&#8217;s license and issue a 15 day permit. After this, you will not be allowed to drive unless you request a stay from the court and it is granted.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>If the court upholds the DUI\/DWI arrest, any time remaining on the\u00a0sentence\u00a0will be served and your driver&#8217;s license will be suspended for one year. If the arrest is overturned, your driver&#8217;s license will be returned.<\/p>\n<p>Once your suspension is up, your driver&#8217;s license will need to be reinstated. The requirements for this are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Pay the $45 reinstatement fee.<\/li>\n<li>Provide proof of successful completion of a Substance Abuse Traffic Offender Program (SATOP).<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If you received a DWI or DUI in Missouri and refused the chemical test (refused to blow into the breathalyzer , contact the St. Louis DWI attorneys at Traffic Law Stop.\u00a0\u00a0(314) 644 &#8211; 7102.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Missouri&#8217;s implied consent law requires a driver to submit to a chemical test when requested by a law enforcement officer. If the driver refuses (refused to blow), the arresting officer will make note of this and take\u00a0possession\u00a0of your driver&#8217;s license and issue a 15 day permit. After this, you will not be allowed to drive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[33,32,77,40],"igit_series":[],"class_list":["post-162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-driver-license-law","category-dwi-law","tag-dui-arrests","tag-dwi-arrests","tag-dwi-law","tag-dwi-penalties"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162\/revisions\/164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162"},{"taxonomy":"igit_series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trafficlawstop.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/igit_series?post=162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}