Title 39, Motor Vehicles

1. The following individuals are exempt from having an operator's license: a. An employee of the United States government while operating a motor vehicle owned by or leased to that government and being operated on official business. b. A nonresident who is at least sixteen years …

The director may not issue an operator's license: 1. To an individual who is under the age of sixteen years, except that the director may issue an instructional permit under section 39-06-04, a restricted permit under section 39-06-05, or a license under section 39-06-17. 2. To a…

1. The director shall issue a nondriver color photo identification card to any resident of this state who fulfills the requirements of this section. An application for an identification card must be made on a form furnished by the director. Within thirty days from receipt of a co…

1. Any resident of this state who is at least fourteen years of age may apply to the director for a class D instruction permit. 2. The director may issue a class D instruction permit that entitles the applicant while having the permit in the permittee's immediate possession to dr…

1. The director upon receiving proper application may issue a restricted instruction permit effective for a school year or more restricted period to an applicant who is at least fourteen years of age and enrolled in a commercial driver training course that includes practice drivi…

The director may issue a temporary operator's permit for the operation of a motor vehicle to an applicant for an operator's license pending an investigation and determination of facts relative to the applicant's right to receive an operator's license. The permit must be in the ap…

1. An applicant for an operator's license must be made upon a form furnished by the director. 2. An applicant must state on the application the full name, date of birth, sex, social security number, unless the applicant is a nonimmigrant who is not eligible for a social security …

1. An applicant must verify the applicant's name, date of birth, and legal presence on any application by a certified birth certificate or any other documentary evidence that confirms to the satisfaction of the director the true identity, date of birth, legal presence, and citize…

1. The director is authorized to seek professional medical advice from a licensed medical care provider and to use that advice in decisions made by the director in regard to the issuance, renewal, suspension, revocation, or cancellation of an operator's license under this chapter…

The application of any minor for an operator's license must be signed and verified before an individual authorized to administer oaths or the director, by the father, mother, or legal guardian, or if there is not a parent or legal guardian, then by another responsible adult who i…

1. Subject to subsection 2, any negligence of a minor when driving a motor vehicle on a highway must be imputed to the individual who signed the application of the minor for an operator's license, or upon the father, mother, or legal guardian if signing authority has been tempora…

If a minor provides proof of financial responsibility for the operation of a motor vehicle, then the director may accept the application of the minor.

An individual who has signed the application of a minor for a license may file with the director a verified written request to cancel the operator's license of the minor. Upon receipt of the request, the director shall cancel the operator's license of the minor and the individual…

The director upon receipt of satisfactory evidence of the death of the individual who signed the application of a minor for an operator's license shall cancel the operator's license and may not issue a new license until a new application is made by the minor.

1. Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, the director shall examine every applicant for an operator's license. The examination must include a test of the applicant's eyesight; ability to read and understand highway signs regulating, warning, and directing traffic; and knowle…

1. An applicant for an operator's license who is required to be tested to determine the applicant's knowledge of highway signs, regulating, warning, and directing traffic and of the traffic laws of this state shall pay a fee listed in section 39-06-49. 2. An applicant for an oper…

1. Upon the payment of the application fee listed in section 39-06-49, the director shall issue to every qualified applicant an operator's license. An application for an operator's license must be made on a form furnished by the director. The operator's license must bear the full…

1. A resident of this state who is at least fourteen years of age may apply to the director for a class M learner's permit. An individual holding a class M learner's permit for the operation of a motorcycle may not operate the motorcycle during the hours when the use of headlight…

1. The director shall provide central identity management for all state agencies for citizens who possess a nondriver photo identification card or driver's license using driver record data. Upon an individual's change in citizenship status under section 39-06-03.1 or 39-06-14, th…

1. The department shall implement a computerized licensing system that allows a licensed motor vehicle operator to provide electronic proof of valid licensing on an electronic communications device. 2. The electronic proof of valid licensing may be used: a. When being stopped by …

An individual licensed to operate a motor vehicle shall have a physical or electronic operator's license in the individual's immediate possession at all times when operating a motor vehicle and shall physically surrender or electronically provide an operator's license, upon deman…

1. Upon issuing an operator's license or a temporary restricted operator's license under section 39-06.1-11, the director may impose restrictions suitable to a licensee's driving ability with respect to the type of motor vehicle, special mechanical control devices required on a m…

If an operator's license or nondriver photo identification card issued under this chapter is lost, mutilated, or destroyed, or contains erroneous information due to a change in name, address, or for any other reason, the individual to whom the operator's license or identification…

1. Every operator's license issued under this chapter or chapter 39-06.2 expires and is renewed according to this section. 2. The expiration date of a noncommercial operator's license for an individual whose birth occurred in a year ending in an odd numeral is twelve midnight on …

A valid operator's license issued under this chapter to a resident of this state who enters or is in the United States armed forces and serving on active duty continues in full force and effect so long as the active service continues and the licensee remains absent from this stat…

The director may renew an operator's license issued to an individual who is a resident of this state or to a spouse who is a resident of this state, if the individual or spouse is out of state as a result of the employment of the individual or the other spouse with a governmental…

If an individual after applying for or receiving an operator's license or identification card moves from the address named on the license or identification card, or if the name is changed by marriage or otherwise, that individual within ten days after moving or the name change sh…

The director shall file and maintain each application for a license with suitable indexes containing: 1. All applications denied and on each denied application note the reason for the denial; 2. All applications granted; and 3. The name of every licensee whose operator's license …

The director shall file all accident reports and abstracts of court records of convictions received by the director under the laws of this state and maintain convenient records or make suitable notations in order that each record of each licensee showing the convictions of the li…

1. The director shall cancel any operator's license or nondriver photo identification card upon determining that the individual is not entitled to the issuance of the document or that the individual failed to give the required or correct information on the application or the fee …

The privilege of driving a motor vehicle on the highways of this state given to a nonresident is subject to suspension or revocation by the director in like manner and for like cause as an operator's license issued in this title may be suspended or revoked.

1. Upon receiving a record of the conviction or adjudication in this state of a nonresident driver of a motor vehicle of any offense under the motor vehicle laws of this state, or an equivalent ordinance, the director may notify the licensing authority in the state in which the n…

1. The director may suspend or revoke the operator's license of any resident of this state or the privilege of a nonresident to operate a motor vehicle in this state upon receiving notice of the conviction of that individual in a tribal court or in another state of an offense, wh…

If an individual is convicted of any offense for which this chapter requires the revocation of the operator's license of that individual by the director, the court of the conviction shall require the surrender to the court of any operator's license then held by the convicted indi…

1. A period of revocation is at least thirty days and not more than one year, unless otherwise provided by law. 2. The director shall revoke for a period of one year or for a period as may be recommended by the trial court, the operator's license of an individual upon receiving a…

The director may suspend the operator's license of an individual, after hearing, upon proof by a fair preponderance of the evidence, that any of the following apply to the licensee: 1. Commission of an offense for which mandatory revocation of license is required upon conviction.…

Upon receipt of a copy of an order of a juvenile court ordering the suspension of a child operator's license, the director shall suspend the operator's license and make notation of the length of time of the suspension. During the time of the suspension, an application for a class…

1. If an operator's license is suspended or revoked under section 39-06-32 or 39-06.1-10 or chapter 39-16 or 39-16.1, the director shall give notice of intention to suspend to the licensee by mailing the notice to the licensee at the address of record in the department under sect…

In addition to any other power, the director, having good cause to believe that an individual with an operator's license is incompetent or otherwise not qualified for the operator's license, may upon written notice of at least five days to the individual require the individual to…

In addition to any other powers, the court, upon finding of a moving motor vehicle violation which leads the court to believe an individual with an operator's license is not qualified for the operator's license, may direct the director to require the individual to submit to re-ex…

1. After the period of suspension imposed under this title, the operator's license of an individual that has been suspended remains suspended and may not be returned or reinstated until the individual pays to the director a reinstatement fee as listed in section 39-06-49. If appl…

An individual whose operator's license has been revoked is not entitled to have the operator's license renewed or restored unless the revocation was for a cause which has been removed, except that after the expiration of the revocation period the individual may make application f…

Upon an individual's successful completion of an approved adult treatment court program, if ordered by the district court, the director shall reinstate the driving privileges of the individual for any noncommercial license suspension or revocation imposed under law. A reinstateme…

1. A suspension, revocation, or cancellation ordered under this title must be deemed to have commenced when the order is delivered to the licensee at the address of record in the department under section 39-06-20. Constructive delivery under this section must be considered as occ…

Any resident or nonresident whose operator's license in this state has been suspended or revoked under this title may not operate a motor vehicle in this state under a license, permit, or registration certificate issued by any other jurisdiction or otherwise during the suspension…

1. It is a class B misdemeanor for an individual: a. To display or cause or permit to be displayed or have in possession any canceled, revoked, fictitious, or fraudulently altered operator's license or nondriver photo identification card; b. To lend that individual's operator's l…