As Amended
SEC. 63-1-31. Appeal from denial of application for license or temporary permit.
When a person is denied a license or any temporary driving permit after filing the proper application, he shall have the right within sixty (60) days thereafter to file a petition, in the county circuit or chancery court in the county wherein such application was filed, praying for a hearing in the matter before the judge of the court in which such application is presented. Such judge or chancellor is hereby vested with jurisdiction to hear such matters forthwith within term time or during vacation, upon five (5) days' written notice to the officer who refused to issue such license or any temporary driving permit. Said hearing shall be conducted at such place as may suit the convenience of the court. On the hearing of the petition, testimony may be taken, and the court shall render such judgment in the matter as it deems right and proper under the law and evidence.
SOURCES: Codes, 1942, Sec. 8105; Laws, 1938, ch. 143; 1985, ch. 376, Sec. 12, eff from and after July 1, 1985.