20-29.1. Commissioner may require reexamination; issuance of limited or restricted licenses.
The Commissioner of Motor Vehicles, having good and sufficient cause to believe that a licensed operator is incompetent or otherwise not qualified to be licensed, may, upon written notice of at least five days to such licensee, require him to submit to a reexamination to determine his competency to operate a motor vehicle. Upon the conclusion of such examination, the Commissioner shall take such action as may be appropriate, and may suspend or revoke the license of such person or permit him to retain such license, or may issue a license subject to restrictions or upon failure of such reexamination may cancel the license of such person until he passes a reexamination. Refusal or neglect of the licensee to submit to such reexamination shall be grounds for the cancellation of the license of the person failing to be reexamined, and the license so canceled shall remain canceled until such person satisfactorily complies with the reexamination requirements of the Commissioner. The Commissioner may, in his discretion and upon the written application of any person qualified to receive a driver's license, issue to such person a driver's license restricting or limiting the licensee to the operation of a single prescribed motor vehicle or to the operation of a particular class or type of motor vehicle. Such a limitation or restriction shall be noted on the face of the license, and it shall be unlawful for the holder of such limited or restricted license to operate any motor vehicle or class of motor vehicle not specified by such restricted or limited license, and the operation by such licensee of motor vehicles not specified by such license shall be deemed the equivalent of operating a motor vehicle without any driver's license. Any such restricted or limited licensee may at any time surrender such restricted or limited license and apply for and receive an unrestricted driver's license upon meeting the requirements therefor. (1943, c. 787, s. 2; 1949, c. 1121; 1971, c. 546; 1979, c. 667, ss. 26, 41.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Article 2 - Uniform Driver's License Act.
§ 20-7 - Issuance and renewal of drivers licenses.
§ 20-7.1 - Notice of change of address or name.
§ 20-7.3 - Availability of organ, eye, and tissue donor cards at motor vehicle offices.
§ 20-7.4 - License to Give Trust Fund established.
§ 20-7.5 - License to Give Trust Fund Commission established.
§ 20-7.6 - Powers and duties of the License to Give Trust Fund Commission.
§ 20-8 - Persons exempt from license.
§ 20-9 - What persons shall not be licensed.
§ 20-9.2 - Selective service system registration requirements.
§ 20-9.3 - Notification of requirements for sex offender registration.
§ 20-10 - Age limits for drivers of public passenger-carrying vehicles.
§ 20-12.1 - Impaired supervision or instruction.
§ 20-13 - Suspension of license of provisional licensee.
§ 20-13.2 - Grounds for revoking provisional license.
§ 20-15 - Authority of Division to cancel license or endorsement.
§ 20-15.1 - Revocations when licensing privileges forfeited.
§ 20-16 - Authority of Division to suspend license.
§ 20-16.01 - Double penalties for offenses committed while operating a commercial motor vehicle.
§ 20-16.3A - Checking stations and roadblocks.
§ 20-17 - Mandatory revocation of license by Division.
§ 20-17.1A - Restoration of license for person adjudicated to be restored to competency.
§ 20-17.3 - Revocation for underage purchasers of alcohol.
§ 20-17.4 - Disqualification to drive a commercial motor vehicle.
§ 20-17.5 - Effect of disqualification.
§ 20-17.7 - Commercial motor vehicle out-of-service fines authorized.
§ 20-17.8A - Tampering with ignition interlock systems.
§ 20-18 - Conviction of offenses described in § 1 not ground for suspension or revocation.
§ 20-20.1 - Limited driving privilege for certain revocations.
§ 20-20.2 - Processing fee for limited driving privilege.
§ 20-21 - No operation under foreign license during suspension or revocation in this State.
§ 20-22 - Suspending privileges of nonresidents and reporting convictions.
§ 20-23 - Revoking resident's license upon conviction in another state.
§ 20-23.1 - Suspending or revoking operating privilege of person not holding license.
§ 20-24.2 - Court to report failure to appear or pay fine, penalty or costs.
§ 20-25 - Right of appeal to court.
§ 20-26 - Records; copies furnished; charge.
§ 20-27 - Availability of records.
§ 20-28.4 - Release of impounded motor vehicles by judge.
§ 20-28.5 - Forfeiture of impounded motor vehicle or funds.
§ 20-28.7 - Responsibility of Division of Motor Vehicles.
§ 20-28.8 - Reports to the Division.
§ 20-29 - Surrender of license.
§ 20-29.1 - Commissioner may require reexamination; issuance of limited or restricted licenses.
§ 20-31 - Making false affidavits perjury.
§ 20-32 - Unlawful to permit unlicensed minor to drive motor vehicle.
§ 20-34 - Unlawful to permit violations of this Article.
§ 20-34.1 - Violations for wrongful issuance of a drivers license or a special identification card.
§ 20-35 - Penalties for violating Article; defense to driving without a license.
§ 20-36 - Ten-year-old convictions not considered.
§ 20-37 - Limitations on issuance of licenses.