California Vehicle Code ARTICLE 3 - Issuance and Renewal of Licenses

  • Section 12800.
    Each application for an original or a renewal of a driver’s license shall contain all of the following information:(a) The applicant’s true full name, age, sex,...
  • Section 12800.a.
    Each application for an original or a renewal of a driver’s license shall contain all of the following information:(a) (1) The applicant’s true full name, age, gender...
  • Section 12800.b.
    Each application for an original or a renewal of a driver’s license shall contain all of the following information:(a) The applicant’s true full name, age, sex,...
  • Section 12800.c.
    Each application for an original or a renewal of a driver’s license shall contain all of the following information:(a) (1) The applicant’s true full name, age, gender...
  • Section 12800.5.
    (a) (1) A license shall bear a fullface engraved picture or photograph of the licensee.(2) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department shall not, unless requested by...
  • Section 12800.7.
    (a) Upon application for an original, renewal, or duplicate of a driver’s license the department may require the applicant to produce any identification that it determines...
  • Section 12801.
    (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c) and Section 12801.9, the department shall require an application for a driver’s license to contain the applicant’s...
  • Section 12801.a.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall require an application for a driver’s license to contain the applicant’s social security account number and any other...
  • Section 12801.2.
    (a) A person shall not receive financial compensation for the sole purpose of filling out an original driver’s license application for another person.(b) A person in violation...
  • Section 12801.5.
    (a) Except as provided in Section 12801.9, the department shall require an applicant for an original driver’s license or identification card to submit satisfactory proof of...
  • Section 12801.5.a.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other law, the department shall require an applicant for an original driver’s license or identification card to submit satisfactory proof of California residency...
  • Section 12801.6.
    (a) Any federal document demonstrating favorable action by the federal government for acceptance of a person into the deferred action for childhood arrivals program shall satisfy...
  • Section 12801.7.
    (a) The department shall not issue an original driver’s license or identification card, or a renewal, duplicate, or replacement driver’s license or identification card to any...
  • Section 12801.8.
    (a) In the case of a legal, nonimmigrant driver’s license applicant, the department shall issue a temporary driver’s license, valid for 90 days, if the applicant...
  • Section 12801.9.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 12801.5, the department shall issue an original driver’s license to a person who is unable to submit satisfactory proof that the applicant’s presence...
  • Section 12801.10.
    (a) Nothing in Section 1653.5, 12800, 12801, 12801.5, or 12801.9 authorizes an individual to apply for, or be issued, a commercial driver’s license without the submission...
  • Section 12801.11.
    (a) If the director determines that the department is prepared to begin issuing driver’s licenses pursuant to Section 12801.9 on a date sooner than January 1,...
  • Section 12802.
    Every original application shall be signed and verified by the applicant before a person authorized to administer oaths and the applicant shall submit such evidence...
  • Section 12802.5.
    Before issuing a driver’s license or permit to any person under 21 years of age, both of the following shall occur:(a) The department shall inform the...
  • Section 12803.
    Upon application for an original license, except student licenses, the department shall require an examination of the applicant and shall make provision therefor before an...
  • Section 12804.2.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 15275, a person issued a driver’s license by the department is exempt from the endorsement requirements of Section 15275 if all of the...
  • Section 12804.5.
    The class of vehicles permitted to be operated as shown on a driver’s license held by a minor shall not be changed, unless the parents,...
  • Section 12804.6.
    (a) A person shall not operate a transit bus transporting passengers unless that person has received from the department a certificate to operate a transit bus...
  • Section 12804.7.
    Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 12804.9, class C also includes any two-axle motortruck or implement of husbandry weighing 4,000 pounds or more unladen when towing...
  • Section 12804.8.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the department may conduct studies to develop and identify examinations and tests, to more accurately identify persons who, due...
  • Section 12804.9.
    (a) (1) The examination shall include all of the following:(A) A test of the applicant’s knowledge and understanding of the provisions of this code governing the operation of...
  • Section 12804.10.
    (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, a person issued a class C license under paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 12804.9 may drive any...
  • Section 12804.11.
    (a) To operate firefighting equipment, a driver, including a tiller operator, is required to do either of the following:(1) Obtain and maintain a firefighter endorsement issued by...
  • Section 12804.12.
    (a) The department may issue a restricted class A driver’s license for the operation of any two-axle vehicle weighing 4,000 pounds or more unladen when towing...
  • Section 12804.14.
    (a) The department may issue a restricted class A driver’s license for the operation of any two-axle vehicle weighing 4,000 pounds or more unladen when towing...
  • Section 12804.15.
    (a) Notwithstanding Section 362, for purposes of this section “house car” means a vehicle described in subdivision (b) of Section 12804.10.(b) (1) Except as provided under paragraph (2),...
  • Section 12805.
    (a) The department shall not issue a driver’s license to, or renew a driver’s license of, any person:(1) Who is not of legal age to receive a...
  • Section 12806.
    The department may refuse to issue to, or renew a driver’s license of, any person:(a) Who is rendered incapable of safely operating a motor vehicle because...
  • Section 12806.5.
    The department may adopt regulations specifying, in addition to any cause provided by statute, the circumstances which are grounds for the suspension or revocation of...
  • Section 12807.
    The department shall not issue or renew a driver’s license to any person:(a) When a license previously issued to the person under this code has been...
  • Section 12808.
    (a) The department shall, before issuing or renewing any license, check the record of the applicant for conviction of traffic violations and traffic accidents.(b) The department shall,...
  • Section 12809.
    The department may refuse to issue or renew a driver’s license to any person:(a) If the department is satisfied that the applicant is not entitled to...
  • Section 12810.
    In determining the violation point count, the following shall apply:(a) A conviction of failure to stop in the event of an accident in violation of Section...
  • Section 12810.2.
    Notwithstanding subdivision (f) of Section 12810, a violation point count shall not be given for a conviction of a violation of Section 27315.(Amended by Stats....
  • Section 12810.2.a.
    (a) Notwithstanding subdivision (f) of Section 12810, a violation point count shall not be given for a conviction of a violation of Section 27315, 27318, or...
  • Section 12810.3.
    Notwithstanding subdivision (f) of Section 12810, a violation point shall not be given for a conviction of a violation of subdivision (a) of Section 23123,...
  • Section 12810.4.
    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no violation point shall be given for a conviction of a violation of Section 22526.(Added by Stats. 1993, Ch....
  • Section 12810.5.
    (a) Except as otherwise provided in subdivision (b), a person whose driving record shows a violation point count of four or more points in 12 months,...
  • Section 12811.
    (a) (1) (A) When the department determines that the applicant is lawfully entitled to a license, it shall issue to the person a driver’s license as applied for....
  • Section 12811.1.
    (a) Upon the applicant’s request, the department shall issue an adhesive backed medical information card which contains a format permitting the licensee to specify blood type,...
  • Section 12812.
    If a driver with a class C or M license, who is not required to have a certificate under any provision of this code, is...
  • Section 12813.
    (a) The department may, upon issuing a driver’s license or after issuance whenever good cause appears, impose restrictions suitable to the licensee’s driving ability with respect...
  • Section 12814.
    (a) Application for renewal of a license shall be made at an office of the department by the person to whom the license was issued. The...
  • Section 12814.5.
    (a) The director may establish a program to evaluate the traffic safety and other effects of renewing driver’s licenses by mail. Pursuant to that program, the...
  • Section 12814.6.
    (a) Except as provided in Section 12814.7, a driver’s license issued to a person at least 16 years of age but under 18 years of age...
  • Section 12814.7.
    (a) Notwithstanding the provisional licensing requirements of subdivisions (a) to (e), inclusive, of Section 12814.6, the department shall issue to a person who is at least...
  • Section 12815.
    (a) If a driver’s license issued under this code is lost, destroyed or mutilated, or a new true, full name is acquired, the person to whom...
  • Section 12816.
    (a) Every original driver’s license expires on the fifth birthday of the applicant following the date of the application for the license.(b) Renewal of a driver’s license...
  • Section 12817.
    (a) A California driver’s license held by a person who enters or is in the United States Armed Forces shall continue in full force and effect,...
  • Section 12818.
    (a) Upon receipt of a request for reexamination and presentation of a legible copy of a notice of reexamination by a person issued the notice pursuant...
  • Section 12819.
    Unless the person issued the notice of reexamination requests the reexamination pursuant to Section 12818 within five working days after the department receives the notice...

Last modified: October 22, 2018