§ 512. Operation while registration or privilege is suspended or
revoked. Any person who operates any motor vehicle upon a public highway
while the certificate of registration of such motor vehicle or privilege
of operation of such motor vehicle in this state or privilege of
obtaining a certificate of registration issued by the commissioner is
suspended or revoked shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction shall be subject to a fine of not less than fifty dollars nor
more than one hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not exceeding
thirty days or by both such fine and imprisonment for conviction of a
first offense; by a fine of not less than one hundred dollars nor more
than two hundred dollars or by imprisonment for not exceeding ninety
days or by both such fine and imprisonment for a conviction of a second
offense committed within a period of eighteen months; by a fine of not
less than two hundred dollars nor more than five hundred dollars or by
imprisonment for not exceeding one hundred eighty days or by both such
fine and imprisonment for a conviction of a third or subsequent offense
committed within a period of eighteen months.