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2010 New Teen Driving Laws
2010 Teen Laws Update
New Teen Driving Laws
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Relates to restrictions on the issuance of a regular driver's license for persons under the age of 18, specifies that a person may have held a valid learner's license from another state for a specified period of time prior to applying for a regular driver's license.
Creates a system for increasing the age at which a person is eligible to apply for a driver's license if the person, over the age of 12 years and a student in a public or private school, was subject to habitual school punishment for an infraction committed on school property, requires the Department of Public Safety to determine a student's age of eligibility, requires documentation of school enrollment, relates to boater safety certification.
Prohibits a driver under eighteen years of age from operating a motor vehicle while using a cellular telephone device.
Addresses issues related to the licensing of youthful drivers, to amend the law regarding restricted driver's licenses, learner's licenses, and intermediate licenses. A driver with a learner's license shall not use a cellular telephone device or other interactive wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle.
Places reasonable restrictions on youthful drivers granted a license, provides that a license shall be issued only to an applicant with a valid instruction permit or learner's license who is a specified age and has remained free of a serious accident and conviction of a serious traffic violation for a specified time, prohibits unrelated minor passengers and use of a cellular telephone device or other interactive wireless communication device while operating a motor vehicle except for an emergency purpose.
Indiana - Senate Bill 16 - Top
Raises the minimum age for the issuance of a learner's permit, raises the minimum age for the issuance of a probationary operator's license, sets requirements for practice driving before a probationary operator's license can be issued, prohibits a driver under the age of 18 from operating a motor vehicle while using a telecommunications device, revises the period during which certain passengers may not accompany a probationary driver.
Relates to motor vehicles, allows a driver of an authorized emergency vehicle to execute a lawful intervention technique involving a fleeing motor vehicle if the person has completed a qualifying training course, requires the driver of a school bus to stop the school bus before crossing certain railroad tracks, authorizes a driver less than 18 years of age to operate a motor vehicle in which there are passengers if accompanied by a parent, guardian, or stepparent of the operator.
Relates to driver's licenses, provides for certain restrictions and graduated driver's licensing provisions.
Relates to motor vehicle operator's licenses, exempts 17-year olds who have enlisted in the military from the requirement to obtain an intermediate license, requires proof of enlistment, conforms and clarifies that individuals over the age of 18 are exempt from graduated driver's licensing provisions.
Requires the clerk of the juvenile court to report to the Motor Vehicle Administration an adjudication of a child as delinquent or a finding that the child has committed a delinquent act relating to fleeing the scene of an accident or eluding a police officer, requires the Administration to suspend a child's license upon such notification by the clerk and to suspend a provisional driver's license of a person of a certain age if the individual accumulates a certain number of points in a certain time period.
Increases the minimum age at which an individual may obtain a provisional driver's license or original driver's license, requires that an applicant for a driving instructor's license be fingerprinted and undergo a criminal history records check, repeals a provision requiring that an applicant's school attendance record be furnished with an application for an instructional permit, provides for the cancellation of a minor's license, authorizes a driver improvement program for young drivers.
Increases the minimum age for obtaining a provisional or original driver's license, requires the Motor Vehicle Administration, upon request of a cosigner, to cancel a minor's license, requires fingerprinting and criminal background screening of an applicant for a driving instructor's license, provides for a driver improvement program for young drivers, imposes certain restrictions on a provisional driver's license relative to the age and number of passengers.
Mississippi Senate Bill 2280 -Top
Increases the minimum period of time that an applicant for an intermediate driver's license must hold a temporary driving permit, requires public schools to submit to the Department of Public Safety documentation verifying that a minor applicant for a license or learning permit is enrolled in school, revises the hours during which an intermediate driver's licensee may drive unsupervised, prohibits drivers holding an intermediate license or temporary permit from sending written messages while driving.
Establishes a Teen Driver Safety Day to promote teen driver education and safety.
New Hampshire - House Bill 99 - Top
Increases the hours of supervised driving time required to complete driver education of persons under 18, adds a requirement that 10 of those hours be at night.
Excludes certain advanced driver instruction from the definition of drivers' school, requires that a driver's licenses display the licensee's mailing address and not display the licensee's social security number, provides that a new driver's license be issued upon change of address for a specified fee.
Revises certain restrictions on permit holders and provisional driver's licensees and renames the license probationary, provides that the holder of the examination or learner's permit shall not use any hand-held or hands-free interactive wireless communication device.
New Jersey Senate Bill 2314 - Top
Requires holders of special learner's permits, examination permits, and provisional driver's licenses to display certain decals, provides for a fee for the decals, provides that such decals shall be displayed in a specified manner and shall be clearly visible to law enforcement officers, provides that the permit holder shall not operate a vehicle unless the decals are displayed.
Relates to motor vehicles, increases the number of hours of behind-the-wheel training required for eligibility to receive a graduated Class D driver licenses, modifies certain curfew restriction.
Requires the Department of Transportation to reimburse a public school or commercial driver training school for the cost of providing a course of traffic safety education that is certified by the department, prohibits a public school or commercial driver training school from charging tuition that is greater than a certain amount.
A driver education course for a student who is under 18 years of age must require the student to complete 34 hours of behind-the-wheel instruction, including at least 10 hours of instruction that takes place at night. A person under 18 years of age may not operate a motor vehicle during the 12-month period following issuance of an original Class A, B, or C driver's license to the person: after 10 p.m. and before 5 a.m. unless the operation of the vehicle is necessary for the operator to attend or participate in employment or a school-related activity or because of a medical emergency.
Relates to the requirement that driver education curriculum shall include information regarding distractions while driving, relates to wireless communications devices.
Relates to education and examination requirements for the issuance of a driver's license to certain persons.
Provides that the requirement that the reinstatement of a person's license for a person under 21 years of age operating a vehicle with a detectable amount of alcohol in the person's body is contingent upon the person's completion of an action recommended by a local substance abuse authority or substance abuse program is only applicable within five years after the effective date of the license sanction.
Relates to the motorcycle education program, provides that a person who is at least 15 years 6 months of age and has been issued a learner permit may enroll in and complete a motorcycle rider training course if the course is conducted on a closed course that is not conducted on a public highway, is approved by the Driver License Division and meets or exceeds established national standards for motorcycle rider training courses prescribed by the Motorcycle Safety Foundation.
Virginia - House Bill 719 - Top
Relates to penalties for underage drinking and driving, provides that underage drinking and driving is punishable as a Class 1 misdemeanor, provides for forfeiture of such person's license to operate a motor vehicle for one year from the date of conviction and a mandatory minimum fine or community service.
Provides for issuance of restricted driver's licenses for persons less than 19 years old whose driver's licenses have been suspended for violations committed when operating a motor vehicle under a provisional driver's license.
Requires that minor applicants for a driver's license show they have successfully completed, with a parent or guardian, an in-classroom driver safety course.
Provides for the suspension of the driver's license or learner's permit of any minor who has a specified number of unexcused absences from public school on consecutive school days.
Permits children at least 17 years of age to drive automobiles or trucks on public roadways if enumerated criteria are satisfied, including requirements that the vehicle's gross weight not exceed a specified weight, the driving occur in daylight hours, has a valid license and the driving occur within certain miles of the place of employment.
Washington - Senate Bill 6345 - Top
The holder of an intermediate license may not operate a moving motor vehicle while using a wireless communications device unless the holder is using the device to report illegal activity, summon medical or other emergency help, or prevent injury to a person or property.
Requires provisional license holders to complete either a driver's education course approved by the State Department of Education or fifty hours of behind-the-wheel driving experience, including a minimum of ten hours of nighttime driving. Also amends night driving restrictions.
Wyoming - Senate Bill 74 - Top
Relates to restricted licenses, allows young drivers to hold both class C and class M licenses.