California Code of Regulations
Title 13 - Motor Vehicles
Division 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Chapter 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Article 2.0 - Driver Licenses and Identification Cards
Section 17.00 - Documentation Required to Obtain a REAL ID-Compliant Driver's License or Identification Card

Universal Citation: 13 CA Code of Regs 17.00

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 38, September 20, 2024

(a) To be issued a REAL ID-compliant driver's license or identification card, an applicant shall:

(1) Satisfy the requirements of section 17.02; and,

(2) Submit two documents from the list of documents set forth in section 15.01.

(b) The department shall send the REAL ID-compliant driver's license or identification card to the applicant by mail with a return service requested at the address provided in the application and verified with the document submitted pursuant to section 15.01.

(c) Applicants who do not receive their REAL ID-compliant driver's license or identification card because it has been returned to the department may:

(1) Notify the department of their correct address; and,

(2) Submit two documents from the list set forth in section 15.01 showing the applicant's correct California address.

(d) Pursuant to federal requirements, the department shall not renew a REAL ID-compliant driver's license or identification card issued to a person who submitted only one document from the list of documents set forth in Section 15.01 unless the person provides additional proof of California residency by providing a second document from the list of documents set forth in Section 15.01.

(e) Customers who applied for a REAL ID-compliant driver's license or identification card prior to April 29, 2019, submitted one document from the list of documents set forth in Section 15.01, and were issued a REAL ID-compliant driver's license or identification card, must provide additional proof of California residency by providing a second document from the list of documents set forth in Section 15.01.

(1) Customers who applied for a REAL ID-compliant driver's license or identification card prior to April 29, 2019, submitted only one document from the list of documents set forth in Section 15.01, and were issued a REAL ID-compliant driver's license or identification card, that are applying to change the address on their REAL ID-compliant driver's license or identification card must provide two documents from the list of documents set forth in Section 15.01.

1. New section filed 12-22-2017; operative 12-22-2017 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2017, No. 51).
2. Change without regulatory effect amending subsection (a)(2) filed 11-29-2018 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2018, No. 48).
3. Amendment of subsections (b) and (c) and new subsections (d)-(f) filed 5-23-2019 as an emergency; operative 5-23-2019 (Register 2019, No. 21). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 11-19-2019 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
4. Certificate of Compliance as to 5-23-2019 order, including amendment of subsections (c)(2) and (d), new subsection (e)(1) and repealer of subsection (f), transmitted to OAL 11-5-2019 and filed 12-9-2019; amendments effective 12-9-2019 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2019, No. 50).
5. Amendment of subsection (a)(1) filed 4-18-2022; operative 7-1-2022 (Register 2022, No. 16).

Note: Authority cited: Section 1651, Vehicle Code. Reference: Section 681, Vehicle Code; and 6 C.F.R. Part 37.11.

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