Browse Previous Page | Table of Contents | Browse Next Page

Title 27 Transportation

Subtitle 2. Motor Vehicle Registration And Licensing

Chapter 16 Driver's Licenses Generally

Subchapter 9 - Expiration, Cancellation, Revocation, or Suspension

27-16-912. Period of suspension or revocation.

The office shall not suspend a license for a period of more than one (1) year and upon revoking a license shall not in any event grant application for a new license until the expiration of one (1) year after the revocation.

History. Acts 1937, No. 280, § 31; Pope's Dig., § 6855; A.S.A. 1947, § 75-335.


Case Notes



Suspension.

Suspension.

A suspension that continues for nine or ten years is not temporary under anyone's definition and certainly exceeds the one-year limitation set out in this section. Sievers v. City of Fort Smith, 320 Ark. 136, 894 S.W.2d 940 (1995).

Suspensions in one state have the effect of precluding a driver from obtaining a license in other states; that is what happens in Arkansas, and recognition of foreign state suspensions is appropriate so long as those suspensions are effective for a fixed period of time. Sievers v. City of Fort Smith, 320 Ark. 136, 894 S.W.2d 940 (1995).

Browse Previous Page | Table of Contents | Browse Next Page