As Amended
SEC. 63-1-81. Application for license or permit; fees; use by resident of license issued by another jurisdiction; falsification of information or certification; registration with Selective Service System for certain males.
(1) Each application for a commercial driver's license or commercial driver instruction permit shall include the following:
(a) The full name and the current mailing and residential address of the applicant;
(b) A physical description of the applicant, including sex, height, weight, eye and hair color;
(c) The applicant's date of birth;
(d) The applicant's social security number unless the application is for a nonresident commercial driver's license;
(e) The applicant's signature;
(f) The applicant's color photograph;
(g) All certifications required by applicable federal regulations;
(h) Any other information which the Commissioner of Public Safety, by rule or regulation, determines necessary and essential; and
(i) The consent of the applicant to release driving record information.
(2) The fee for accepting and processing an application for a commercial driver instruction permit shall be Ten Dollars ($10.00).
(3) The fee for accepting and processing an application for a Class A, B or C commercial driver's license shall be Twenty-five Dollars ($25.00).
(4) No person who has been a resident of this state for thirty (30) days may drive a commercial motor vehicle under the authority of a commercial driver's license issued by another jurisdiction. Any violation of this subsection shall be punishable as provided by Section 63-1-69, Mississippi Code of 1972.
(5) Any person who knowingly falsifies information or certifications required under subsection (1) of this section shall be subject to the penalties prescribed in Section 63-1-59, Mississippi Code of 1972, and shall be subject to suspension of his commercial driver instruction permit or commercial driver's license in accordance with Section 63-1-51, Mississippi Code of 1972.
(6) Each application or filing made under this section shall include the social security number(s) of the applicant in accordance with Section 93-11-64, Mississippi Code of 1972.
(7) (a) Any male who is at least eighteen (18) years of age but less than twenty-six (26) years of age and who applies for a commercial license or renewal of a commercial license under this article shall be registered in compliance with the requirements of Section 3 of the Military Selective Service Act, 50 USCS Appx 451 et seq., as amended.
(b) The department shall forward in an electronic format the necessary personal information of the applicant to the Selective Service System. The applicant's submission of the application shall serve as an indication that the applicant either has already registered with the Selective Service System or that he is authorizing the department to forward to the Selective Service System the necessary information for registration. The commissioner shall notify the applicant on, or as a part of, the application that his submission of the application will serve as his consent to registration with the Selective Service System, if so required. The commissioner also shall notify any male applicant under the age of eighteen (18) that he will be registered upon turning age eighteen (18) as required by federal law.
SOURCE: 1997 Laws, Chapter 588, Sec. 20, SB2164; Laws, 2002, ch. 388, § 2, HB 522, eff from and after Sept. 1, 2002.
PREVIOUS VERSIONS: Pre-2002.