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

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

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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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16 February
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Is Your Professional License at Risk Due to Your DUI Arrest?

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Is Your Professional License at Risk Due to Your DUI Arrest?

Your professional license could be at risk due to your DUI arrest or conviction. Depending on your profession and the current rules of your professional licensing board, you may need to report your arrest or conviction. Alternatively, someone may report it anonymously or you may fail a pre-employment check or drug test. As a result, you may have no choice but to participate in extensive monitoring programs, take drug tests, and more. Professional licensing organizations for medical professionals take drinking or drug-related arrests particularly seriously. Nurses and doctors may face required diversion and discipline in their state. For example, in Oklahoma...

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17 November
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The Interstate Driver’s License Compact

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The Interstate Driver’s License Compact

Like many other states, Oklahoma has enacted the Interstate Driver’s License Compact. The Interstate Driver’s License Compact (IDLC), 47 O.S. 781 et seq., is an agreement adopted by states who want to exchange information about license suspensions and traffic violations to other states in the U.S. Because each state has its own system for recording and tracking license suspensions and traffic violations, they do not communicate driver’s records to each other unless they have the IDLC in place. The IDLC gives states the power to communicate an out-of-state driver’s offenses to his home state. The home state then may treat the...

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

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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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