This law states that the director is responsible for managing and ensuring compliance with the rules and regulations of the department as outlined in this code.

This law allows the director to create and enforce rules needed for the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to operate effectively. Any new rules, changes, or removal of existing rules must follow a specific process called the Administrative Procedure Act, which sets out how regulations are made and modified.

If the department believes someone is, or will be, breaking rules related to acting without a required license, they can ask a court to stop them. The court can then issue an order, such as an injunction or restraining order, to halt these activities. The court can also require the person to cover the department's legal costs.

This law ensures that military training and experience are recognized in California, specifically to help veterans obtain a commercial driver's license (CDL) when they leave active duty. The Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), in partnership with the U.S. military, will create policies to support this transition without bypassing any standard requirements or tests for obtaining a CDL. The DMV will collaborate with the Department of Veterans Affairs in the policy-making process, and they must do this within their current budget.

This section allows the director of the Department of Motor Vehicles to set expiration dates for vehicle registrations. These dates can range from 7 to 18 months initially, followed by yearly renewals. Trailers and certain motor vehicles have expiration dates set to the end of a calendar month. Vehicles registered quarterly expire on December 31. The director can exclude some vehicles from year-round registration if deemed suitable.

Additionally, for vehicles registered under the International Registration Plan, the director must establish year-round registration expiration dates by 2009, using the same methods as for other vehicles.

This section explains that the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is responsible for creating and providing all the necessary forms related to vehicle and driver documentation, like applications or certificates, and will cover any shipping costs. Additionally, the DMV can require these documents to be signed under penalty of perjury, meaning it’s a crime to lie on them.

This law allows the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to review and verify all applications or documents submitted to them. If the DMV has doubts about the authenticity or accuracy of information in any submission, they can ask for more details or reject the application.

This law requires that forms for getting or renewing a driver's license or ID card include a section for social security numbers, and forms for vehicle registration or title transfers include a section for driver's license or ID numbers. Applicants must provide these numbers if the form asks. The department won't complete applications missing these numbers, except in certain cases. These numbers won't appear on issued documents like licenses or registration papers. Social security information isn't public and can only be shared with specific agencies for purposes like child support, tax administration, or unemployment benefits. If any part of this law is ruled invalid by a court, it becomes inactive, and the department must update their website accordingly.

This law section outlines requirements for forms used by the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) when applying for or renewing driver's licenses, identification cards, vehicle registrations, or certificates of title. It mandates that these forms must include spaces for applicants to provide their social security numbers or driver's license/ID card numbers. The DMV cannot process applications missing this information. It also protects applicants' social security numbers from being printed on official documents and restricts their disclosure, with exceptions for specific government purposes like child support enforcement and tax administration. This section will take effect following a court ruling on its legality.

The director of the department has the authority to buy or lease property and construct buildings if needed, but they must get approval from the Department of General Services first.

This law gives certain people in the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), like the director, deputy directors, and investigators, the authority of police officers when it comes to enforcing laws that the DMV manages or enforcing laws on DMV property.

These authorized individuals are also allowed to inspect any registered vehicles, or their parts, at places like garages, repair shops, and used car lots. They do this to verify vehicle titles and registrations, check wrecked or dismantled cars, or find stolen vehicles.

This law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to create and distribute a summary of the rules for driving and traffic laws. They must provide this summary for free when issuing new vehicle registrations and driver's licenses. Additionally, the DMV must create copies in both English and Spanish, and make sure they're available at DMV offices and law enforcement agencies without charge.

The Department of Justice, working with the Department of Motor Vehicles and the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, needs to make a video showing the right way for police officers and drivers to behave during a traffic stop. This video should be available on the DMV's website.

This law mandates that the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) distribute a printed summary detailing the penalties for not following specific financial responsibility laws. This summary must be provided with every vehicle registration, driver’s license, and renewal. The summary explains that drivers must carry proof of insurance or other forms of financial responsibility, such as a bond or cash deposit. Not having proof can lead to fines, license suspension, or even jail time for falsifying information.

Additionally, if a driver is involved in an accident with damages over $1,000 or any injuries, they must report it to the DMV within 10 days. If they fail to report or show proof of financial responsibility, their license may be suspended for up to four years. Drivers have the right to request a hearing if their license is suspended, and the DMV must provide a decision promptly.

This California law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to ensure that the Driver’s Handbook includes information on several topics: rail transit safety, prohibiting animal abandonment on highways, respecting the right-of-way, and understanding a person's civil rights during a traffic stop. It explains what drivers and passengers can expect from law enforcement, including their rights and how to file complaints. Officers must also disclose reasons for stops unless there’s an immediate threat to safety. This info should be added when the handbook is next updated, starting January 1, 2024.

This California law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles, with help from the Department of Consumer Affairs, to provide information online for consumers buying or who have bought vehicles. The info must include contact details for government agencies, vehicle arbitration services, and consumer organizations related to vehicles.

Additionally, funds from the Consumer Fraud Protection Program Fund can be used to support these consumer protection activities, if approved by the Legislature.

This law allows California's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to make deals with private companies to use message display systems for sharing public safety and consumer information. These systems can be featured on the DMV's mailings or properties they own or manage.

The advertising messages included must benefit drivers and consumers, and these ads can only take up 15 minutes of every hour. The DMV decides if an advertised product or service is in the public's best interest and won’t partner with advertisers whose offerings aren't suitable for the motoring community.

This law allows the director to appoint qualified department employees to assist the State Board of Education and local school boards in creating and running driver education and training programs in high schools.

This law allows the department to join groups or associations that focus on sharing information about vehicle registration, driver's licenses, highway safety, and what the department is responsible for. The department can also pay membership fees to be part of these groups.

This law allows the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to create standards and run a driver education and training program for people whose licenses have been suspended or revoked. The goal of this program is to encourage safe driving habits. To effectively implement this, the DMV can work with schools, courts, and others who are interested in promoting road safety.

If you're an institution or organization receiving donated vehicles, you need to keep certain records for at least three years. These records include the donor's details and specifics about the vehicle, such as its make, year, identification number, and sometimes the license plate number. You must also track when the vehicle was donated, sold, and for how much.

If you're selling a donated vehicle for someone else, you need a written agreement detailing the profit split and confirming the vehicle meets equipment and emission standards. You should also keep a list of vehicles and maintain all sale documents in the same way as for your own donations. Additionally, these records must be available for inspection by the department to verify compliance with related laws.

This law requires the DMV to notify vehicle owners at least 60 days before their registration renewal fees are due, except for certain vehicles covered under a specific article. If a vehicle's registration isn't renewed, the DMV's final notice must mention the possibility of the vehicle being taken away and impounded. There was a temporary suspension of the 60-day notification requirement for certain vehicles from May 1, 2011, till January 1, 2012.

This law requires the California Department of Motor Vehicles to include a warning in its vehicle laws summary. The warning emphasizes that not using a shoulder harness in certain accidents can lead to serious or fatal injuries, especially to areas like the head, spine, and abdomen. However, this law doesn't affect anyone's legal rights or remedies that already exist.

California's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is required to promote awareness of the Safe Streets Act of 1994. They must do this by including information about it when sending out vehicle registrations, driver's licenses, and notices related to driver's license suspensions or revocations. Additionally, the DMV should feature this information in other educational resources they distribute.

This law allows the department to create rules for issuing and renewing certain licenses or certificates every two years instead of annually. They can also decide the fee for these two-year licenses, which can't be more than twice the yearly fee. Importantly, this rule doesn't apply to driver's licenses or vehicle and vessel registrations.

This law requires the Department to add at least one question related to blood alcohol concentration to every driver's license test. This ensures that applicants are aware they need to read and understand the blood alcohol concentration table in the Driver’s Handbook. When sending a driver’s license or vehicle registration renewal, the Department must also include information on the amount of alcohol it takes to reach a 0.08% blood alcohol level. The law also emphasizes the need to include a question about pedestrian rights in these tests to ensure applicants understand this important aspect.

When the California Driver’s Handbook is updated, the Department of Motor Vehicles must include at least one question in the noncommercial driver’s license exams. This question checks if applicants understand the dangers and penalties of fleeing from a police officer in a vehicle.

This law requires that at least 20% of driving knowledge tests in California include a question about the criminal offense of abandoning or dumping animals and the severe traffic safety risks it poses. This ensures that applicants are aware of the legal consequences and safety hazards associated with such actions.

This law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles to include a question in at least 20% of driving knowledge tests about the dangers and illegality of driving with unsecured loads, like loose tools or materials in a pickup. This aims to ensure drivers understand that unsecured loads can be a traffic safety hazard and are against the law.

This law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to inform vehicle owners about the vehicle smog indexing program when they are renewing their registration, but not when registering a new vehicle for the first time. The notice provided to owners should follow the format developed by the State Air Resources Board. The section will stop being applicable five years after a specific date outlined in a related act and will be officially repealed the following January 1.

The department can offer fingerprinting services to the public and must charge at least $5 per person for the service. If an applicant's fingerprints are sent to the Department of Justice for a license or certificate and a fee is needed, the department will charge the applicant enough to cover that cost without needing to create new regulations.

This law aims to make sure the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) in California operates efficiently. Specifically, it states that, under normal conditions and depending on available resources, anyone seeking DMV services like vehicle registration or getting or renewing a driver's license or ID card should not wait longer than 30 minutes. The DMV must also clearly display their hours of operation near the entrance of each office.

If you have a license to run a vehicle-related business and you operate different types of businesses from the same location, you must keep each business area separate. Your business location must also be open for inspections by law enforcement during business hours.

This law outlines requirements for the physical business locations of vehicle-related businesses like dealers, manufacturers, and schools. These businesses need an office and, in most cases, a display or manufacturing area on the same property. If their office is in a building like a hotel or apartment, it must be on the ground floor with a direct entrance from outside and used only for business purposes. Certain types of dealers, like those not selling to the public or those acting as intermediaries between dealers, only need an office and not a display area. For automobile dismantlers, an office and dismantling area, zoned correctly by local laws, are required.

This section of the law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to provide information about organ donation in its offices. Specifically, DMV offices must display a sign describing the Uniform Anatomical Gift Act and provide information on the California Organ and Tissue Donor Registry.

Additionally, the DMV should have pamphlets or brochures with more details about the donor registry and private donations available to the public. The materials for these displays and resources are to be supplied for free by parties involved in the anatomical gift program.

This section states that the director of the department must decide when the supply of current driver's license and ID card forms, as they were on December 31, 1998, has run out. Once this happens, the director must inform several key officials, including the Secretary of State and leading members of the Senate and Assembly Transportation Committees, by sending them a written notice. This notice must explicitly mention that it's provided according to this specific law section.

This law requires the design of driver's licenses and identification cards to include a spot for a sticker, which shows that the person is willing to donate their organs or tissues after death. The stickers must be durable and not easily removed accidentally.

This section defines who is considered the 'registered owner or lessee' when it comes to refunding the smog impact fee. It refers to the individual or individuals whose name appears on the registration or title at the time the fee was first applied.

This law requires the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to work with the Department of Finance to manage the refund of a $300 smog impact fee to vehicle owners or lessees. The DMV will search its records to find eligible individuals and send them a refund notification form. The form must be completed and returned, and the DMV will verify the claim before issuing the refund, which includes any penalties and interest. Interest will be calculated based on rates from October 1990 until the law's effective date and will stop accruing one year after this law takes effect.

People who paid the smog fee between October 15, 1990, and October 19, 1999, can file for refunds, but they must do so within three years of the law's effective date.

This law explains how claims for a smog impact fee refund should be handled if submitted by someone other than the car's registered owner or lessee. Claims from non-owners must be filed within 30 days after this section becomes active. The Department must notify the registered owner or lessee about the competing claim. They then have three years to oppose it, or else the refund goes to the competing claimant. If there's disagreement about who receives the refund, any of the claimants can take the matter to small claims court, but not if more than three years have passed since the refund was issued. The State and its employees cannot be involved in disputes between claimants.

If the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) mistakenly issues a refund for the smog impact fee, they will try to get it back. The DMV will start collecting the money if the person doesn't respond within 90 days after being notified to pay it back. They will use their usual methods to collect the money.

This law makes it illegal to lie or hide important details when submitting a refund claim for the smog impact fee to the department. If you break this law, it's punishable as a fraud under another legal section. Also, when you sign the claim form, you're doing so under the penalty of perjury, which means if you lie, you could face serious consequences.

This law mandates that when the California Department of Motor Vehicles issues a refund for the Smog Impact Fee, they must include a specific notice. The notice explains that the fee was ruled unconstitutional in a court case and informs the recipient of the interest included with the refund. It also provides contact information for any inquiries about the refund. Additionally, no other information or notice is allowed to accompany the refund check.

This law requires the department to create a supportive environment that helps drivers do well on their visual, written, and driving tests.

This law requires the department responsible for driver's testing to include a training module for their test administrators. The purpose of this training is to make these administrators aware of and sensitive to any biases they might have—either consciously or unconsciously—towards younger and older drivers during visual, written, or on-the-road driving tests.

This California law focuses on creating transportation alternatives for people who can no longer drive because they didn't pass visual, written, or behind-the-wheel driving tests. While families and communities share some responsibility, the state also pledges to help fund and promote other transportation options.

The law aims to set up affordable and fair transportation solutions by January 1, 2003, for those who've lost their driving privileges. To achieve this, a task force will look into funding sources and transportation modes, with a report on their findings due by July 1, 2001.

This law requires the creation of driver improvement courses specifically for drivers aged 55 and older, called mature driver improvement courses. These courses must include lessons on visual and audio perception impairments, effects of fatigue and substances, road rules, and safe driving techniques. The course must be at least 400 minutes long and can have up to 25 students for one-day sessions or 30 for two-day sessions. Completing the course provides a certificate that can lower auto insurance premiums for three years. The certificate can be renewed by taking a shorter, 240-minute renewal course. Course providers must be approved by the department.

This section outlines the costs associated with mature driver improvement courses in California. Course providers can charge a maximum fee of $30 for the course itself. They must provide a receipt for the tuition paid by participants.

The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) also charges a fee of up to $3 for each completion certificate given to course providers. This fee helps cover the administrative costs of the mature driver improvement program, and course providers cannot charge more than this amount for issuing a certificate.

All fees collected by the DMV are deposited into the State Transportation Fund's Motor Vehicle Account.

This law outlines the rules for providers offering mature driver improvement courses. Providers must develop and operate courses with approval fees not exceeding the cost of approval. Approved providers are responsible for course delivery, instruction, and content. The department can investigate claims of wrongdoing by providers and revoke course approval if there are violations, like giving certificates prematurely or overcharging. Courses remain approved until providers fail to meet conditions or the department finds a reason to revoke approval.

This section talks about how certain fees related to vehicles in California are calculated and adjusted. Starting in 2004, specific fees were set as a base according to a list of sections from different legal codes. Every year beginning on January 1, 2005, these fees are adjusted based on the California Consumer Price Index, a measure of inflation. The fees increase by at least fifty cents and are rounded up to the next whole dollar. If any new laws change these fees after January 1, 2005, those changes will be considered when calculating future adjustments based on inflation.

This law mandates that starting July 1, 2006, any documents sent by the department offering voter registration under the National Voter Registration Act must include a notice. This notice tells individuals that if they don't get voter registration info within 30 days of asking for it, they should reach out to their local elections office or the Secretary of State.

It's illegal for anyone to sell or offer to sell appointments with a government department.

An 'appointment' here refers to scheduling a time to receive a government service.

This law allows the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to partner with private companies to improve vehicle registration and titling services. There are three types of partnerships: first-line business partners who use DMV data for their own purposes, first-line service providers who pass information to other partners, and second-line business partners who receive data from service providers.

To be a partner, companies must apply and meet certain requirements, like providing fingerprints and posting a bond. The DMV decides how much partners can charge customers, adjusts these fees annually based on inflation, and requires a $3 transaction fee that can be passed to customers. Exemptions to this fee may apply to certain transactions.

The DMV oversees these partnerships to protect customers' data and must report annually to the Legislature about the program’s outcomes and any suspected fraud. Starting July 1, 2025, a $1 transaction fee will be applied to fund system improvements until 2028 or until sufficient funds are collected.

This California law allows the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to partner with interstate carriers for electronic vehicle registration services. To qualify, partners must be able to handle registration transactions, maintain registration documents, and demonstrate knowledge of the International Registration Plan. The DMV can form partnerships with registration services, vehicle leasing or rental companies, and motor carrier associations. Prospective partners need to apply and meet specific standards. The DMV can regulate the program, set fees, ensure compliance, protect privacy, and establish performance measures. Additionally, there may be limits on fees partners can charge their customers.