Suspended Drivers License Information

There are two types of suspension you can receive from the MVA.
Points Suspension

Collecting eight to 11 points, but none of the offenses involving alcohol or drugs, will get you this notice. It is the lighter of the two overall, but not by much: a license suspension still means you cannot drive. If you receive a letter from the MVA informing you that this action is being taken you essentially can do two things:

* Return your license via mail or in person at any MVA office. Depending on the infraction(s) involved, the suspension could last anywhere from three months to one year.

* If you disagree with the notice, you have 15 days to appeal and ask for a hearing. Luckily, the form that the MVA sends out has detailed instructions on how to go about making this request. Once the hearing application is processed, the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) will get in touch with you letting you know where to go, when, and at what time. Until the hearing your license is still considered suspended and you are not allowed to operate a vehicle.

Standard Suspension

This involves the same concept as the points suspension, except one of the infractions adding up to a total in the neighborhood of eight to eleven had something to do with driving with alcohol or drugs in your system.

You can also get a standard suspension by not paying a traffic fine, or by falsifying information on your driver license application.

* Return your license via mail or in person at any MVA office. Depending on the infraction(s) involved the suspension could last anywhere from three months to one year.

* If you disagree with the notice, you have 15 days to appeal and ask for a hearing. Luckily, the form that the MVA sends out has detailed instructions on how to go about making this request. Once the hearing application is processed, the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH) will get in touch with you letting you know where to go, when, and at what time. Until the hearing your license is still considered suspended and you are not allowed to operate a vehicle. There is a fee for the hearing for which you are responsible.

* There is a way that you can keep the suspension at bay: allow an interlock device to be hooked to your vehicle. This device can cause quite the embarrassment, making you blow into a tube that checks your blood alcohol concentration (BAC) before starting your car, but if you need to drive, this is the route to take.

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