| "body"> | | | | even after your 30-day temporary license has expired. |
| Driver's license restriction is one of the most common | | | | If you do not request a hearing with the Department of |
| punishments for DUI conviction. Statutory chapters that | | | | Motor Vehicles within 10 days of your arrest, your |
| set guidelines for the granting of driver's licenses | | | | license will be automatically suspended. Typically, if you |
| generally also provide the circumstances under which | | | | lose the hearing or fail to request a hearing in time, the |
| they can be revoked. With such statutes in place, | | | | Department of Motor Vehicles will suspend your |
| license revocations have primarily become a simple | | | | privilege to drive for four months (one year if you have |
| state administrative agency matter, occurring | | | | a prior conviction). However, you may be eligible for a |
| automatically upon conviction of a DUI offense. | | | | five-month restricted license after 30 days of your |
| If any chemical tests determine your blood alcohol level | | | | suspension, if you are a first time offender. If you have |
| is .08 percent or more, your driver's license will | | | | a prior conviction within 10 years you are not eligible for |
| immediately be taken by the officer at the time of | | | | a restricted work-driving-only license until a one-year |
| your arrest. | | | | suspension is completed (and you must attend the |
| Since the DMV is considered a civil arena, your due | | | | 18-month multiple-offender alcohol program). |
| process rights have been determined by the courts | | | | In addition to mandatory license revocation, state |
| not to apply. The officer will issue a 30-day temporary | | | | statutes are increasingly giving courts the discretionary |
| license which will allow you to drive while awaiting a | | | | power to suspend the DUI offender's vehicle |
| hearing date. If the DMV assigns a hearing date after | | | | registration, or even, in some circumstances, to |
| 30 days, which they commonly have to do because | | | | impound the convicted DUI offender's vehicle. Where |
| they are overbooked, you should receive a written | | | | allowed, actual impoundment rarely occurs and when it |
| extension so you can continue to drive until the hearing, | | | | does, is of relatively short duration. |