Title 28 — Transportation

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…

A. If a licensee is required to attend and successfully complete approved traffic survival school educational sessions designed to improve the safety and habits of drivers pursuant to section 28-645, 28-647, 28-672, 28-695, 28-3306 or 28-3321, the department shall indicate on the…

On notification by the court that a person failed to appear as directed for a scheduled court appearance after service of a criminal complaint alleging a violation of a provision of this title, the department shall suspend the person's driver license or nonresident operating priv…

A. The department shall promptly suspend a driver license or nonoperating identification license issued to or the driving privilege of a person who is under the legal drinking age and who is convicted of using a false or lawfully issued license of this state or any other jurisdic…

A. A peace officer who arrests a person for the commission of an offense for which, on conviction, suspension of any license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle is required by section 28-3309 shall file an affidavit with the department. The peace officer shall make the affida…

Periods of suspension required pursuant to section 28-3309, subsection A or B or section 28-3310 arising from the same offense run concurrently and begin on the date the original suspension is effective.

A. The department shall disqualify a person who is required to have a commercial driver license, who is a commercial driver license holder or who is a commercial learner's permit holder from driving a commercial motor vehicle as follows: 1. Except as provided in subsection E of t…

A. Within ten days of the suspension, revocation, cancellation or disqualification of a commercial driver license for a period of sixty days or more, the department shall update its records to reflect the action and shall notify the commercial driver license information system of…

A. If the department has good cause to believe that a licensed driver is incapable of operating a motor vehicle pursuant to section 28-3306, subsection A, paragraph 5 or is otherwise not qualified to be licensed, the department may require the licensee to submit to an examination…

A. The department shall not suspend, revoke or disqualify a driver license or privilege to drive a motor vehicle on the public highways for more than one year from the date of a conviction or judgment, if any, against a person for which this chapter makes revocation, suspension o…

A resident or nonresident whose driver license or privilege to operate a motor vehicle in this state is suspended or revoked pursuant to this chapter shall not operate a motor vehicle in this state under a license, permit or registration certificate issued by another jurisdiction…

A. Unless the cancellation or revocation is mandatory under this chapter, a person who is denied a license or whose license is canceled, suspended or revoked by the department may seek judicial review pursuant to title 12, chapter 7, article 6, except that section 12-910, subsect…

A. The department shall provide written, electronic or digital notice to a person possessing a driver license, to an unlicensed driver or to a nonresident driver of the following: 1. A suspension, revocation, cancellation, disqualification or certified ignition interlock device l…

A. If, pursuant to section 28-1321, 28-1381, 28-1382, 28-1383, 28-3320 or 28-3322, the license of a driver or the driving privilege of a nonresident is suspended or revoked, the department shall not terminate the suspension or revocation or issue a special ignition interlock rest…

A. In addition to the grounds for mandatory suspension or revocation provided for in chapters 3, 4 and 5 of this title, the department shall immediately suspend the driver license or privilege to drive or refuse to issue a driver license or privilege to drive of a person who comm…

A person who holds a driver permit or license and who is found responsible for a moving civil traffic violation pursuant to this title or who is convicted of a moving criminal traffic offense pursuant to this title, excluding violations of sections 28-693, 28-695, 28-708, 28-1381…