Wisconsin Administrative Code
Department of Transportation
Chapter Trans 112 - Medical Standards For Driver Licensing And General Standards For School Bus Endorsements
Section Trans 112.12 - Conditions affecting psychosocial, mental or emotional function
Universal Citation: WI Admin Code ยง Trans 112.12
Current through February 26, 2024
(1) With respect to conditions affecting psychosocial, mental or emotional function, the review boards when making recommendations, and the department when taking licensing action, may consider disorders including, but not limited to, the following:
(a) Schizophrenia.
(b) Personality disorders.
(c) Bipolar disorder.
(d) Delusional disorders.
(e) Dementia and organic brain
syndrome.
(f) Other mood
disorders.
(2) The department may require information on functional ability including, but not limited to, the following:
(a) Impaired
impulse control.
(b) Reality
testing and orientation.
(c)
Impaired affect or mood.
(d)
Asocial, anti-social or dissocial behaviors.
(e) Impulse control.
(f) Suicidal risk.
(g) Cognitive impairment.
(h) Treatment program, including medications
and compliance.
(3)
(a)
Licensing standards. No
license or endorsement may be issued to, renewed by, or held by a person who
does not meet the medical review standards for conditions affecting
psychosocial, mental and emotional function of this subsection.
(b)
Medical standards for school bus
and passenger endorsements. A person who applies for, renews, or holds
a school bus or passenger endorsement shall meet all of the following mental
and emotional function criteria:
1. The person
is oriented to time, date, person and place.
2. There is no behavior disorder that
interferes with safe driving, as assessed by a physician or APNP.
3. There are, at the time of the application
for or renewal or holding of the endorsement, no destructive behaviors or
suicidal tendencies.
(c)
Medical standards for all classes of operators licenses. A
person who applies for, renews, or holds any classification of operator's
license shall meet all of the following mental and emotional function criteria:
1. There is no dementia that is unresponsive
to treatment.
2. There is no
behavior disorder with threatening or assaultive behavior at the time of
application.
3. Any delusional
system does not interfere with safe driving, as assessed by a physician or
APNP.
4. There is no impairment of
judgment that interferes with safe driving as assessed by a physician or
APNP.
5. There is no active
psychosis that interferes with safe driving, as assessed by a physician or
APNP.
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