A. Any person who is at least seventeen years of age may apply to the department for a learner’s license to drive motor vehicles or power cycles, provided such person has completed a driving course in accordance with La. Rev. Stat. 32:402.1. The department may, in its discretion, after the applicant has successfully passed all parts of the examination, other than the driving test, issue to the applicant a learner’s license at the regular fee of a Class “E” driver’s license, which shall entitle the applicant while having such license in his immediate possession to drive a motor vehicle upon public highways when accompanied by a licensed parent or guardian, by a licensed adult at least twenty-one years of age, or by a licensed sibling at least eighteen years of age. In addition to a licensed parent, sibling, guardian, or adult, there may be other members of the licensee’s immediate family in the vehicle, and when accompanied by a driver’s education instructor, there may be one or more fellow driver’s education students in the vehicle. It shall be unlawful for any other person to accompany the beginner and licensed driver, except in the event the applicant is operating a motorcycle. Any person under the age of seventeen who has a valid learner’s license and is operating a motorcycle is restricted to a distance of three miles from the applicant’s residence, unless a parent, tutor, or other person having custody is temporarily staying or residing at another location, where the applicant would be restricted to within three miles of that location. Any person seventeen years of age or older being issued a learner’s license may apply for a regular Class “E” license thirty days after the issuance of a learner’s license, or at any time after the issuance of the learner’s license provided the applicant provides proof that the applicant has completed an approved thirty-six hour driver education course, and there shall not be any additional fee for the regular license.

            B. Repealed by Acts 2016, No. 317, §2.

            Amended by Acts 1954, No. 165, §8; Acts 1992, No. 382, §1, eff. July 1, 1993; Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, §1, eff. July 7, 1994; Acts 1995, No. 163, §1, eff. June 12, 1995; Acts 1995, No. 1247, §1; Acts 1997, No. 725, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998; Acts 2001, No. 427, §1; Acts 2011, No. 294, §2; Acts 2016, No. 317, §2.