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What If You Get a DUI While Your License Is Suspended?

What If You Get a DUI While Your License Is Suspended?

If you get a DUI in Oklahoma while your license is suspended, you could be charged with an additional crime that comes with more penalties. Your license could be suspended for many different reasons, but all will lead to fines and potentially prison time if you drive while intoxicated and with a suspended license. What Are the Penalties for Driving with a Suspended License and DUI? If you are caught driving with a suspended license and also appear intoxicated, you may be arrested both for the suspended license violation and a suspected DUI. The law enforcement officer will probably have you take...

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What Is the Difference Between a Suspended License and a Restricted License?

What Is the Difference Between a Suspended License and a Restricted License?

If your driver’s license is suspended or restricted in Oklahoma, you may wonder if you can ever drive your car and when. These two license designations have very different meanings that are important to understand. What Is a Suspended Driver’s License? When a driver refuses a breath or blood test, fails a roadside test, or is arrested for DUI, law enforcement may revoke that person’s license. The law uses both the words “suspend” and “revocation”. Usually, the arresting officer will seize your license and give you a receipt and notice of your right to request an administrative hearing with the Department of Public...

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The Driver’s License: A Privilege or a Right?

The Driver's License: A Privilege or a Right?

Holding a driver’s license has been called both a privilege and a right. The Supreme Court weighed in on driver’s license revocation hearings and related issues in two cases from the 1970s. In the case of Bell v. Burson, 402 U.S. 535 (1971), the Supreme Court determined that an administrative driver’s license revocation must involve a determination of whether there is a reasonable likelihood that the driver will be found liable for the offense. In other words, a long-term (not temporary) license revocation because a driver might have committed a crime cannot be automatic. If it is truly automatic and does...

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The Effect of a DUI on Your Oklahoma Commercial Driver’s License

The Effect of a DUI on Your Oklahoma Commercial Driver's License

Being charged or convicted of a DUI while holding a commercial driver’s license could cost you your license or even your job. To obtain a commercial driver’s license or CDL, you must pass a test and meet higher state-established standards than holders of non-commercial licenses. Similarly, the federal government has established higher standards than some states for when a commercial driver loses his license after a DUI. The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration sets minimum standards that holders of CDLs must meet. States perform the practical administration of applications, renewal, and reinstatement of CDLs and may set even higher standards for...

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