Opinion No. (1980)

REQUESTED BY: Dear Senator DeCamp:

You have brought LB 643 to our attention and asked for our opinion with regard to its constitutionality. More specifically, you question the constitutionality of the proviso in line 20 of page 17 which, as you describe it, results in a situation where `an applicant for a late permit is required to in essence confess to any offenses he might have committed.'

The amended portion of LB 643 to which you refer is presumably subsections (3), (4) and (5) of section 46-659. For purposes of clarity, those subsections as set forth in the bill provide:

"(3) Any person who…