Current through September 24, 2024
(1) Upon payment of the required fees the
Department shall issue to every qualified applicant a driver license or
temporary driver license indicating the type or general class of vehicles the
licensee may drive, or a photo identification license or temporary photo
identification license indicating the license is for identification purposes
only and not valid for vehicular use.
(2) Each driver license, temporary driver
license, photo identification license and temporary photo identification
license issued shall contain the following:
(a) The name of this State and a
distinguishing number-,
(b) The
applicant's full. legal name, date of birth, and current residential street
address (or post office box number if the applicant has no bona fide
residential street address);
(c) A
brief physical description of the applicant, including sex, height, and eye
color for photo licenses, and race, sex, height, weight, hair color, and eye
color for non-photo licenses;
(d)
The dates the license was issued and will expire;
(e) Restrictions and/or conditions which
apply to the licensee;
(f)
Organ/tissue donor information; and
(g) Either the facsimile of the applicant's
usual signature or a space upon which the licensee shall write the licensee's
usual signature with pen and ink.
(3) Special requirements in addition to those
specified in subpart (2) include the following:
(a) commercial driver licenses shall show the
applicant's social security number;
(b) duplicate driver licenses, temporary
driver licenses, photo identification licenses and temporary photo
identification licenses shall note that the license is a duplicate of an
original license.
(c) photo
identification licenses and temporary photo identification licenses shall have
printed prominently thereon the following statement: "For identification
Purposes Only, Not Valid For Vehicular Operation"; and
(d) any driver license, temporary driver
license, photo identification license or temporary photo identification license
issued to someone less than twenty-one (21) years of age shall identify the
licensee as being under twenty-one (21) years of age by prominently bearing the
words and numbers "Under 21" and showing the month and year the licensee will
become twenty-one (21) years of age.
(e) If the applicant has provided a social
security number to the department, a phrase substantially similar to "On File"
shall be printed in an appropriate location on the license. If the applicant
does not have, or who states that the applicant has never been issued a social
security number required by T.C.A. §
55-50-321(c)(1)(A),
the applicant shall complete an affidavit, under the penalty of perjury,
affirming that the applicant has never been issued a social security number. A
phrase substantially similar to "None Provided" shall be printed in an
appropriate location on the license. Such phrases shall be in red or other
distinctive lettering.
(4) All driver and photo identification
licenses shall bear a color photograph of the applicant furnished by the
Department, or bear an endorsement that no photograph is required. Persons
sixty (60) years of age or older may elect to obtain a non-photo bearing
license.
(a) All temporary driver licenses and
temporary photo identification licenses shall bear a color photograph of the
applicant provided by the Department.
(5) No license shall be considered valid
unless it bears the applicant's photograph (or endorsement that no photograph
is required) and the applicant's signature or facsimile of signature.
(6) To the maximum extent practicable all
licenses issued shall be tamper resistant.
(7) Records of driver licenses, temporary
driver licenses, photo identification licenses and temporary photo
identification licenses as issued shall be maintained by the
Department.
Authority: T.C.A. §§
55-50-102,
55-50-202,
55-50-321,
55-50-323,
55-50-331,
55-50-333,
55-50-334, 55-50-335, 55-50-336,
55-50-407, Public Chapter No. 194, 2007 and Public Acts of 2004; Chapter
778.
