Title 28 — Transportation

In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. "Cancellation" means the annulment or termination of a driver license because of an error or defect or because the licensee is no longer entitled to the license. 2. "Commercial driver license" means a license that is issu…

A. The following fees are required: 1. For each original or initial application or renewal application, if a written examination is required, for the following: (a) Class A driver license, twenty-five dollars. (b) Class B driver license, twenty-five dollars. (c) Class C driver li…

A. The department may receive and deposit in the state highway fund established by section 28-6991 monies collected by the director pursuant to section 28-3002, paragraph 1, subdivisions (a), (b) and (c), paragraph 3, subdivisions (a), (b), (c) and (d), paragraph 4, subdivisions …

A. The department shall file an application for a license and shall maintain suitable indexes containing, in alphabetical order: 1. Each application denied, with a note on each application of the reason for the denial. 2. Each application granted. 3. Except as provided in subsect…

A. For medical conditions, a physician or registered nurse practitioner, or for psychological conditions, a psychologist, physician, psychiatric mental health nurse practitioner or addiction counselor who provides information to the director in good faith and at the written reque…

1. To allow a person applying for a driver license, permit or nonoperating identification license pursuant to this chapter to indicate during the application process the person's preference to be an organ or tissue donor. An indication that the applicant wishes to be an organ or …

A. The student transportation advisory council is established consisting of the following members appointed by the governor: 1. One member representing the department of public safety. 2. One member representing the state board of education. 3. One member representing the state b…

A. Except as provided in subsections B and C of this section and section 28-3102, the following driver license classes are valid: 1. Class A. A class A license is valid for operating either of the following: (a) A motor vehicle that tows a vehicle with a gross vehicle weight rati…

A. Notwithstanding section 28-3101, a person who operates an authorized emergency vehicle, a farm vehicle or a recreational vehicle may operate the vehicle with a class A, B, C, D or G license. B. For the purposes of this section: 1. "Commercial farming" means the intensive culti…

A. A driver license applicant shall obtain the following endorsements to the applicant's driver license and shall submit to an examination appropriate to the type of endorsement if the applicant operates one or more of the following vehicles: 1. A motorcycle endorsement for opera…

A. Unless exempt pursuant to this chapter, a person shall not drive a motor vehicle or vehicle combination on a highway without a valid driver license and proper endorsement as prescribed by this chapter. B. A person who is licensed under this chapter is entitled to exercise the …

A. Except as provided in subsection B, the following persons are exempt from licensing under this chapter: 1. Except for United States reserve technicians, any of the following while operating a commercial motor vehicle for military purposes: (a) Active duty military personnel. (…

A. The department shall not issue the following: 1. A driver license to a person who is under eighteen years of age, except that the department may issue: (a) A restricted instruction permit for a class D or G license to a person who is at least fifteen years of age. (b) An instr…

A. A person who is at least fifteen years and six months of age may apply to the department for an instruction permit for a class D or G license. The department may issue an instruction permit to the applicant after the applicant successfully passes all parts of the examination o…

A. On receipt of a proper application, the department may issue a restricted instruction permit for a class D or G license to an applicant who is enrolled in a driver training program approved by the department and who is at least fifteen years of age. The restricted instruction …

A. A person who is at least fifteen years and six months of age may apply to the department for an instruction permit for a class M license. The department may issue an instruction permit to the applicant after the applicant successfully passes all parts of the examination other …

A. The department may issue a temporary driver permit to an applicant for a driver license. The permit allows the driver to operate a motor vehicle while the department is completing its investigation and determining all facts relative to the applicant's privilege to receive a dr…

A. A person who applies for an instruction permit or for a driver license shall use a form furnished by the department. B. An applicant shall pay the fee prescribed by section 28-3002 for a driver license or for an instruction permit issued under section 28-3154, 28-3155, 28-3156…

A. With good cause, the department may issue the following restricted driver licenses: 1. A driver license with any of the following: (a) Restrictions suitable to the licensee's driving ability for the type of motor vehicle or special mechanical control devices required on a moto…

A. Except as provided in section 28-3161, the following person or persons shall sign and verify before a person authorized to administer oaths the application of a person under eighteen years of age for an instruction permit, a class G or M driver license or an endorsement to a c…

A. A person who is at least fifteen years of age, who is attending school and who is not living or residing with the person's parent or guardian may apply for a restricted instruction permit issued pursuant to section 28-3155. An approved instructor of the drivers training progra…

A. A person who signs the application of a minor for a driver license may file with the department a verified written request that the department cancel the driver license of the minor. On receipt of the request, the department shall cancel the driver license of the minor and the…

An owner of a motor vehicle who causes or who knowingly permits an unlicensed minor to drive a vehicle on a highway and a person who gives or furnishes a motor vehicle to an unlicensed minor are jointly and severally liable with the minor for damages caused by the negligence or w…

A. The department may do any of the following: 1. Examine an applicant for an original driver license. 2. Accept the examination conducted by an authorized third party pursuant to chapter 13 of this title. Beginning July 1, 2014, the third party must be authorized pursuant to sec…

A. On receipt of an application from a person who does not have a valid driver license issued by this state or whose driving privilege is suspended, the department shall issue a nonoperating identification license that contains a distinguishing number assigned to the licensee, th…

A. The department shall issue a driver license to a qualified applicant. The driver license shall contain a distinguishing number assigned to the licensee, the license class, any endorsements, the licensee's full name, date of birth and residence address, if the licensee has a re…

A. The department shall provide on each driver license and on each nonoperating identification license a space where a licensee may indicate that the licensee suffers from some type of adverse medical condition using a medical code prescribed by the department if the licensee pre…

A. When a male person who is under twenty-six years of age applies for a driver license or a nonoperating identification license or for renewal of a driver license, the person consents to register with the selective service system in compliance with section 3 of the military sele…

A. A licensee shall have a legible driver license in the licensee's immediate possession at all times when operating a motor vehicle. On demand of a justice of the peace, a police officer or a field deputy or inspector of the department, a licensee shall display the license. B. A…

A. If an instruction permit or driver license issued under this chapter is lost, destroyed or made illegible, if the name or address of the applicant changes or if a new photo image is desired, the person to whom the permit or license was issued may obtain a duplicate, update or …

A. Except as provided in subsection B, D or E of this section and unless medical restrictions require a shorter expiration period, a driver license is: 1. Except as provided in paragraph 3 of this subsection, valid until the applicant's sixty-fifth birthday. 2. Renewable for succ…

A. By written notice the department shall require a licensee to update the licensee's photograph or present or mail to the department in a form prescribed by the department a report based on a vision test performed by the department or an examination by an optometrist or an ophth…

A. A person who is under eighteen years of age may apply to the department for a class G driver license if all of the following apply: 1. The person is at least sixteen years of age. 2. The person has a valid instruction permit issued pursuant to this article and the person has h…

B. A driver license or nonoperating identification license issued pursuant to this section: 1. Shall be valid for a period not to exceed eight years. 2. May not contain radio frequency identification technology. C. The department shall adopt rules to implement this section.

The department shall mark a license issued to a qualified person for a class A, B or C license as a commercial driver license or a CDL.

A person who operates a commercial motor vehicle and who changes state of domicile to this state shall obtain the appropriate class of commercial driver license from this state within thirty days of changing state of domicile to this state and shall surrender the person's current…

A. In addition to the requirements applicable to all driver license applicants, an original applicant for a class A, B or C license is subject to the following requirements: 1. The applicant shall submit evidence of compliance with medical standards and requirements that the depa…

A. The department may issue a nondomiciled commercial driver license to a resident of another jurisdiction if the United States secretary of transportation determines that the commercial motor vehicle testing and licensing standards in the other jurisdiction do not meet the testi…

A. A person who is at least eighteen years of age may apply to the department for a learner's permit for a class A, B or C license. The department may issue a learner's permit to the applicant after the applicant passes all parts of the examination and meets all other requirement…

A driver of a commercial motor vehicle shall not have more than one driver license, except during the ten day period beginning on the date the person is issued a driver license in this state to allow the driver to return to the department a commercial driver license currently hel…

A. A driver of a commercial motor vehicle who has a driver license issued by this state and who is convicted of violating a state law or local ordinance relating to motor vehicle traffic in any state or a federal, provincial, territorial or municipal law of another country, other…

A. A person shall not operate a school bus that is designed for sixteen or more passengers and that transports school children unless the person possesses the appropriate license class for the size of school bus being operated that is issued by the department of transportation, a…

A. The department may waive the requirement that an original applicant for a class A, B or C license take the driving test prescribed by section 28-3223, subsection A, paragraph 5 if the applicant is on active duty in the armed forces of the United States or has separated from th…

B. On notification from the federal motor carrier safety administration's drug and alcohol clearinghouse that a driver is prohibited from operating a commercial motor vehicle due to a violation of the controlled substances and alcohol use and testing prohibitions in 49 Code of Fe…

A. The department may cancel a driver license or permit on determining any of the following: 1. The licensee was not entitled to the issuance of the license or permit under this chapter. 2. The licensee failed to give the required or correct information in the application or comm…

A. The privilege of driving a motor vehicle on the highways of this state that is given to a nonresident driver under this chapter is subject to suspension or revocation by the department in the same manner and for the same cause as a driver license that is issued under this chap…

A. Except as provided in subsection B of this section, the department may suspend or revoke the license or driving privilege of a resident of this state or the privilege of a nonresident to drive a motor vehicle in this state and shall require the person to successfully complete …

1. A homicide or aggravated assault resulting from the operation of a motor vehicle. 2. A felony in the commission of which a motor vehicle is used. 3. Theft of a motor vehicle pursuant to section 13-1802. 4. Unlawful use of means of transportation pursuant to section 13-1803. 5.…

A. If a person is convicted of an offense or if a judgment is entered against the person for which revocation of the driver license of the person by the department is mandatory pursuant to this chapter, the court that ordered the conviction or judgment shall: 1. Require the perso…

A. The department may suspend or revoke the license of a driver or require a licensee to attend and successfully complete approved traffic survival school educational sessions designed to improve the safety and habits of drivers on a showing by department records or other suffici…