She used to live in AZ but didn't turn in her AZ license after she moved to CA and received her CA license. Is there a system in place that would make the AZ license void?
She carries both in her wallet. How could this benefit her/why would she do this?
2006-10-08 16:38:40 · 10 answers · asked by westla24_m 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Law Enforcement & Police
Is she breaking a law?
2006-10-08 16:40:09 · update #1
I'm guessing neither one is a real license. Tell her not to get caught.
2006-10-08 16:40:45 · answer #1 · answered by Salem 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
When a resident of Arizona moves to California and applies for a California driver's license, the California license replaces the Arizona one. Probably if you were to check her California license through a DMV database, it will show the prior AZ license was 'surrendered' on a particular date. (Meaning one replaced the other as the official driver's license for that person).
Technically she should have turned the AZ in at the time she applied for the CA license. But she did what thousands of Americans often do and she kept her other license for whatever personal reasons she has, and none of the reasons may have to do with a criminal thought. DMV doesn't get to excited over this, as long as the person didn't apply for a new license under a false name or identifyer, or try to mislead in some way. The old AZ license will expire in due course. She will not be able to continue to renew her AZ license.
What she did is not ethnically symbolic. The most an officer might do if he came across this even in the field, is take the old license and mail it to DMV. He 'could' issue a citation if eagerness overcame him/her, but it doesn't amount to much more than a mechanical fix-it ticket.
Just my miniscule 2-cents worth. :)
2006-10-09 04:59:40 · answer #2 · answered by nothing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is no benefit for having two license. She may have a suspended drivers license in AZ or CA and thinks that if she produces the valid license, that she won't get in trouble. Little do people know is that all 50 states communicate with one another and when another driver receives license in another, the previous state's information may be passed onto their new license. Some states will show a previous driver's license number in another state. The dispatcher can run both driver's license number and see that one is suspended. If that is the case, an arrest can be made for both driving under suspension and/or having two driver's license
2006-10-09 00:33:38 · answer #3 · answered by coconuthead508 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a system. She was suppose to turn in the license when she got a california license. It is illegal to be licensed in more than one state. Technically, her old license is null and void when she gets the new one if she applied for one based on the fact that she was licensed in another state.
If she gets caught with both, she may get into trouble if the law in your state dictates.
2006-10-08 23:48:03 · answer #4 · answered by J D 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What does this have to do with her being Mexican...? If she has a valid license she can drive, whether she is Mexican , Chinese, Arabic, or whatever nationality ......Maybe she likes her picture better on the other license and does not realize it is not legal. I think if people are going through other peoples wallets may be a crime, if it is not , it should be !
2006-10-09 00:16:58 · answer #5 · answered by fly4130_2000 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You know she can't legally use the AZ license in Ca. If she does then she is a felon.
2006-10-08 23:42:57 · answer #6 · answered by Donald W 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Can you tell me what she has done to you for you to want to tell on her? Yeah it is illegal, but if that is the worse she does in her life then she is better than half the mexicans in this country. If she has done nothing to you personally or anything else illegal that you know of, then leave her alone and don't worry about it. There are too many people in the world today that worry so much about everyone else's business that they fail to see they have flaws and problems as well, like the fact that no one likes them because they are nosy little tattle-tales.
2006-10-09 00:03:38 · answer #7 · answered by HBPD 126 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not legal. You can have a license only in your state of official residence. However, the likelihood that she will get caught is small.
2006-10-08 23:54:27 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
depends if shes going back to az. but i think generally you are considered a resident of a state after a year. so you may want to ask someone who knows about these things.
2006-10-08 23:41:43 · answer #9 · answered by mysterious_yet_sweet 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Its illegal to hold 2 DLs. Mexicans do a lot of things that are illegal. Get used to it. You're about to be up to your arm pits in them.
2006-10-08 23:40:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋