License Reinstatement
To get your driver's license back you must go through the license reinstatement process, a driver convicted of DUI must:
- Have a clean driving record except the revocation sanction.
- Do a drug and alcohol evaluation. If an alcohol or drug problem is shown, proof of treatment must be sent.
- Finish an alcohol and drug remedial education program assessing alcohol problems. Even if the evaluation does not lead toward treatment, the driver is still needed to finish a remedial education program or an alcohol and drug safety DUI action school and/or possible alcohol monitoring.
- Appear before a Secretary of State hearing officer. For a first offense, an informal hearing may be held by visiting a hearing officer at one of the regional Driver Services facilities. Multiple offenders must request in writing and go to a formal hearing in their own state.
- Prove that during the hearing that public safety will not be endangered if driving privileges are restored. The hearing officer thinks about the seriousness of the drinking and driving offense, the offender's overall driving record and the driver's remedial efforts.
- File proof of financial responsibility ahead of reinstatement, pay a $500 reinstatement fee, pass the driver's license examination (written, vision and driving portions) and pay the right application fee.
- Repeat offenders have to pay $500 in reinstatement fees on top of usual fees.
- A person wanting a formal hearing for reinstatement of his or her driving privileges will be charged a $50 non-refundable filing fee when asking the formal hearing.
A driver's license reinstatement becomes approved when it is put in the driver's record in the Secretary of State's office.
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