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In the Matter of the Suspension of the Dri v. ng Pri

PER CURIAM.

Reversed and remanded with instructions to reinstate DMV order suspending driving privileges.

PER CURIAM.

The Driver and Motor Vehicle Services Branch (DMV) appeals from a judgment that set aside its suspension of petitioner's driving privileges for his refusal to take a breath alcohol test. We reverse.

On appeal, petitioner raises no issues concerning his arrest or the information that the officer provided before asking him to take the breath test. DMV found that the officer asked petitioner to take a breath test and that he refused. The trial court held that there is not substantial evidence to support DMV's decision. DMV found that petitioner originally agreed to take the test but that, when the "Please Blow" prompt appeared on the machine and the officer again asked him to take the test, he stated "No, I wasn't driving." The officer took that statement as a refusal and did not permit petitioner to take the test when he later asked to do so. The officer's testimony at the administrative hearing provides substantial evidence to support those findings.

We have held that anything substantially short of an unqualified and unequivocal agreement to take the test constitutes a refusal and that, once a motorist refuses, there is no right to change his or her mind. Caldeira v. DMV , 181 Or. App. 168, 171, 45 P.3d 489, rev den, 334 Or. 631 (2002). Under that rule and DMV's findings, DMV's order suspending petitioner's driving privileges was correct.

Reversed and remanded with instructions to reinstate DMV order suspending driving privileges.

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