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Georgia Administrative Driver's License Suspension

The suspension for a test product over .08 is 45 days for a first offense and 90 days for a second or subsequent offense. The suspension for a rebuttal is 120 days for a first offense and one year for a second or subsequent offense. In some circumstances drivers may be able to stay away from a complete suspension if they are willing to set up an interlock device in their motor vehicle for at least one year.

The earliest thing that a person arrested for drunk driving in Georgia needs to do (except just now schedule a meeting with a attorney) is, WITHIN 10 DAYS OF ARREST, to request a hearing with the Office of Administrative Hearings, Georgia. If there is a breath or blood trial with a result of .08 or more, or the person is claimed to have refused the test, then the arresting officer in all probability took the driver's license and sent a 45 day temporary driver's license. The transitory license is a white piece of paper that is attached to an almost indistinguishable piece of white paper.

The second page is the hearing request carbon copy and is mailed to the Office of Administrative Hearings certified, return receipt requested AT ONCE. (Don't fail to remember to include a check for $15 made payable to the Georgia State Treasurer.) If the hearing request is postmarked more than 10 days after arrest the appropriate suspension may start to run if the hearing is listed more than 45 days after arrest. If the hearing request is postmarked more than 30 days after arrest, you probably can't get a hearing!

The hearings are held before administrative law judges at the Georgia offices. The hearing at the Office of Administrative Hearings, where the driver can lose his or her driver's license or benefit is completely independent of the hearing at court where the potential sanctions can include confinement, fine, probation, and imposition of points, for which the driver may have his or her license revoked or suspended again, after the DWI/DUI is heard in court.

At the hearing that occurs after conviction for DWI or DUI, the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) has discretion to change a suspension to allow driving for employment and alcohol tutoring and treatment related purposes. The ALJ may also in apt cases place an alcohol limit on the driver's license, making it unlawful to drive with a BAC of .02 or more, may order the driver to put in and keep an interlock device, and may refer an person to the Medical Advisory Board (MAB) of the MVA for evaluation and regulation.

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The MAB is composed of medical doctors who serve in optional capacity to the MVA and go over medical and treatment records of people with medical problems that can influence their ability to drive safely, including alcoholism. The MAB's good word are typically rubber stamped by the MVA and can include imposition of most conditions on the driver's license, including supervision by the Drinking Driver Monitor Program, attendance at Alcoholics Anonymous, attendance at an permitted alcohol treatment program, and/or imposition of an alcohol limit, a work limit, and/or an interlock limit on the driver's license.

Georgia is also a member state of the license compact, and on delivery of a conviction from an additional state will start suspension or revocation measures like the offense had occurred in Georgia.

 

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