California Code of Regulations
Title 13 - Motor Vehicles
Division 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Chapter 1 - Department of Motor Vehicles
Article 2.2 - Licenses for Minors Under Age of Eighteen
Section 50.45 - Minimum Instruction Requirements Acceptable to the Department

Universal Citation: 13 CA Code of Regs 50.45

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

(a) Certification of driver education by a licensed driving school or educational institution other than a secondary school must be based on the areas prescribed for automobile driver education stated in Section of Title 510020 of Title 5 of the California Code of Regulations. Classroom instruction shall be a minimum of thirty (30) fifty-minute periods. Instruction shall be based on a teaching guide furnished by the department.

(b) Pursuant to behind-the-wheel training certification, the training must be a minimum of six (6) hours. Training shall be based on a teaching guide furnished by the department.

1. Change without regulatory effect renumbering former section 100.45 to section 50.45 filed 7-19-93 pursuant to title 1, section 100, California Code of Regulations (Register 93, No. 30).
2. Change without regulatory effect amending section and adding NOTE filed 1-10-2002 pursuant to section 100, title 1, California Code of Regulations (Register 2002, No. 2).

Note: Authority cited: Sections 1651 and 11113, Vehicle Code. Reference: Section 12814.6, Vehicle Code.

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