AB 445, as introduced, Alejo. Driver’s licenses.
Existing law requires that each application for an original or a renewal of a driver’s license contain certain information, including the applicant’s true full name, age, and gender. Existing law also provides that if a driver’s license is lost, destroyed or mutilated, or if a new true full name is acquired, the person to whom the driver’s license was issued shall obtain a duplicate if the person provides satisfactory proof of the loss, destruction, or mutilation.
This bill would authorize the department to accept a marriage license issued by a tribal court to verify a new true full name.
This bill would make conforming changes.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 12815 of the Vehicle Code is amended
2to read:
(a) begin insert(1)end insertbegin insert end insert If a driver’s license issued under this code is
4lost, destroyed or mutilated, or a newbegin delete true, fullend deletebegin insert true fullend insert name is
5acquired, the person to whom it was issued shall obtain a duplicate
P2 1upon furnishing to the departmentbegin delete (1)end deletebegin insert
(A)end insert satisfactory proof of that
2loss,begin delete destruction, or mutilationend deletebegin insert
destruction or mutilation, or new
3true full nameend insert andbegin delete (2)end deletebegin insert (B)end insert if the licensee is a minor, evidence of
4permission to obtain a duplicate secured from the parents, guardian,
5or person having custody of the minor. Any person who loses a
6driver’s license and who, after obtaining a duplicate, finds the
7original license shall immediately destroy the original license.
8(2) The department may accept a marriage license issued by a
9tribal court to verify a new true full name.
10(b) A person in possession of a valid driver’s license who has
11been informed either by
the department or by a law enforcement
12agency that the document is mutilated shall surrender the license
13to the department not later than 10 days after that notification.
14(c) For purposes of this section, a mutilated license is one that
15has been damaged sufficiently to render any or all of the elements
16of identity set forth in Sections 12800.5 and 12811 unreadable or
17unidentifiable through visual, mechanical, or electronic means.
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