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Ark. Code Ann. § 27-16-602

Driver's license required

Known as the Motor Vehicle Driver's License Act

The act spans §§ 27-16-1001 to 27-16-915 (100 sections).

Applied in 5 court decisions — leading case Coleman v. Watt (1994)

Most recently applied in Cook v. State (October 1995)

Acts 1937, No. 280, § 7; Pope's Dig., § 6831; Acts 1959, No. 307, § 12; A.S.A. 1947, § 75-307; Acts 1993, No. 445, § 11.

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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.

(1) No person, except those expressly exempted, shall drive any motor vehicle upon a highway in this state unless the person has a valid driver's license under the provisions of this chapter.

(2) No person shall receive a driver's license unless and until he or she surrenders to the Office of Driver Services all valid driver's licenses in his or her possession issued to him or her by any other jurisdiction.

(3) All surrendered licenses shall be returned by the office to the issuing department together with information that the licensee is now licensed in the new jurisdiction.

(4) No person shall be permitted to have more than one (1) valid driver's license at any time.

(5) No person shall drive a commercial motor vehicle as a commercial driver unless he or she holds a valid commercial driver's license.

(6) No person shall receive a commercial driver's license unless and until he or she surrenders to the office any noncommercial driver's license issued to him or her or an affidavit that he or she does not possess a noncommercial driver's license.

(7) Any person holding a valid commercial driver's license under this chapter need not procure a noncommercial driver's license.

(8) Any person licensed under this chapter may exercise the privilege granted upon all streets and highways in this state and shall not be required to obtain any other license to exercise the privilege by any county, municipal, or local board or body having authority to adopt local police regulations.

Current official text: Arkansas General Assembly. Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Arkansas statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.