1. Purpose. State motor vehicle operators’ licenses and identification documents have an increasingly important role in our society. They serve not only to identify persons who have received permission to undertake a specific regulated activity, but also serve as identification in numerous public and private transactions.
It is becoming vitally important to insure that state motor vehicle operators’ licenses be issued in a form that clearly identifies them as official state documents, that they positively and easily identify the holder and that they are extremely difficult to counterfeit or alter.

[PL 1981, c. 506, §1 (NEW).]

2. Form. An official state motor vehicle operator’s license or identification card issued under this section shall be a one-piece document and shall:
A. Clearly indicate its nature as an official state document; [PL 1981, c. 506, §1 (NEW).]
B. Contain a photograph of the person to whom issued; [PL 1981, c. 506, §1 (NEW).]
C. Be manufactured in a manner to prohibit, as nearly as possible, the ability to reproduce, alter or counterfeit the document without ready detection; [PL 1981, c. 506, §1 (NEW).]
D. Contain other information required or appropriate for that license or identification card; and [PL 1981, c. 506, §1 (NEW).]
E. Provide that any license issued to persons under 21 years of age shall be distinguished by a different color or other means to make the distinction easily observable. [PL 1985, c. 539, §1 (AMD).]

[PL 1985, c. 539, §1 (AMD).]

SECTION HISTORY

PL 1981, c. 506, §1 (NEW). PL 1983, c. 480, §A2 (AMD). PL 1985, c. 539, §1 (AMD).
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