California Vehicle Code CHAPTER 1 - Driving Schools and Driving Instructors

• Section 11100.
  (a) No person shall own or operate a driving school or give driving instruction for compensation, unless a license therefor has been secured from the department.(b) This...
• Section 11100.1.
  No person who instructs others in the operation of all-terrain vehicles shall represent that the instruction given satisfies the requirements of Sections 38503 and 38504,...
• Section 11100.5.
  Whenever it is necessary for a driving school or independent driving instructor to be certified by the Department of Education, or any agency thereof, in...
• Section 11101.
  (a) This chapter does not apply to any of the following:(1) Public schools or educational institutions in which driving instruction is part of the curriculum.(2) Nonprofit public service...
• Section 11102.
  (a) A driving school owner, or the principal in an all-terrain vehicle safety training organization, shall meet all of the following requirements:(1) Maintain an established place of...
• Section 11102.1.
  If a deposit is given instead of the bond required by Section 11102:(a) The director may order the deposit returned at the expiration of three years...
• Section 11102.5.
  (a) A driving school operator shall meet all of the following requirements:(1) Within three attempts, pass an examination that the department requires on traffic laws, safe driving...
• Section 11102.6.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11102.5, a driving school operator who is first licensed to operate a driving school on or after July 1, 2016, and who offers...
• Section 11103.
  A driving school owner and an independent instructor licensed under Section 11105.5 shall maintain bodily injury and property damage liability insurance on motor vehicles while...
• Section 11103.1.
  An all-terrain vehicle safety training organization shall maintain bodily injury and property damage liability insurance on motor vehicles while being used in all-terrain vehicle safety...
• Section 11103.2.
  A driving school owner who employs one or more driving instructors or other employees shall sign, under penalty of perjury, a statement in a form...
• Section 11104.
  (a) Every person, in order to qualify as a driving instructor, as defined in Section 310.4, shall meet all of the following requirements:(1) On and after July...
• Section 11104.3.
  (a) An all-terrain vehicle safety instructor shall meet all of the following requirements:(1) Be a person who has not been convicted of a crime involving an act...
• Section 11104.5.
  Each applicant for a license as a driving school owner, driving school operator, or driving instructor shall submit an application to the department on the...
• Section 11104.6.
  Each applicant for a license or for renewal of a license under this chapter shall submit an application to the department on the forms prescribed...
• Section 11105.
  (a) The department shall issue a license certificate to each driving school owner and to each driving school operator when it is satisfied that the owner...
• Section 11105.1.
  (a) The department shall issue a license certificate to each driving school instructor and to each all-terrain vehicle safety instructor when it is satisfied that the...
• Section 11105.2.
  (a) The fee for a license issued to a driving school owner or to an all-terrain vehicle safety training organization shall be as follows:(1) For the original...
• Section 11105.3.
  Any school owner, operator, or instructor required to be licensed under this chapter who fails to renew the license prior to the expiration of the...
• Section 11105.5.
  The department shall issue an independent driving instructor’s license to permit instruction in any city with a population of less than 50,000, which does not...
• Section 11105.6.
  (a) The department shall issue a license to an all-terrain vehicle safety training organization when the department is satisfied that the organization has met the qualifications...
• Section 11106.
  (a) Until the department is satisfied that the applicant has met the requirements under this chapter, it may issue a temporary permit to any person applying...
• Section 11107.
  (a) The department may refuse to issue a license certificate under this chapter to any applicant to own or operate a school or to any instructor...
• Section 11108.
  (a) Every person licensed under this chapter shall keep a record showing all of the following:(1) The name and address and license number of the school.(2) The name...
• Section 11108.5.
  (a) Every school owner licensed pursuant to this chapter shall notify the department within 10 days of any change in the ownership or corporate structure of...
• Section 11109.
  Every licensee under this chapter shall maintain all vehicles used in driver training in safe mechanical condition at all times.(Enacted by Stats. 1959, Ch. 3.)
• Section 11110.
  (a) The department, after notice and hearing, may suspend or revoke a license issued under this chapter if any of the following occurs:(1) The department finds and...
• Section 11110.1.
  Any of the causes specified in this chapter as a cause for refusal to issue a license under this chapter is cause to suspend or...
• Section 11110.2.
  The license issued to a school owner shall be automatically canceled upon the happening of any of the following:(a) The abandonment of the established place of...
• Section 11110.5.
  The department may cancel any license issued under this chapter when that license has been issued in error or voluntarily surrendered to the department for...
• Section 11110.7.
  (a) The department, after notice and hearing, on an interim basis, may refuse to issue or may suspend a license issued under this chapter when the...
• Section 11111.
  (a) Every licensee under this chapter is entitled to notice and hearing prior to cancellation, suspension, or revocation of the license by the department, except that...
• Section 11111.2.
  Any owner licensed under this chapter who has closed his or her established place of business or any operator or instructor currently or previously licensed...
• Section 11111.5.
  (a) After the filing of an accusation under this chapter, the director may enter into a stipulated compromise settlement agreement with the consent of the licensee...
• Section 11112.
  Upon refusal of the department to issue a license, the applicant shall be entitled to demand in writing a hearing before the director or his...
• Section 11113.
  (a) The director may prescribe rules and regulations for driving schools regarding the conduct of courses of driver education and driver training, including curriculum, facilities, and...
• Section 11113.3.
  The rules and regulations adopted pursuant to Section 11113 regarding the curriculum shall include, but are not limited to, the rights and duties of a...
• Section 11113.5.
  The department shall establish rules and regulations prescribing standards for the licensing and control, as provided in this chapter, of owners, operators, and instructors and...
• Section 11114.
  The department may require any person licensed under this chapter to submit to a reexamination of his qualifications when there is reasonable cause to believe...

Last modified: October 22, 2018