(Continued from reverse side)to be asked for an ID in a bar, club or other location serving alcohol while you are under 21. In a bar check, the police officer will confiscate your driver’s license. If you are in possession of someone else’s ID or a fake ID, whether you used it to get into the bar or not, it will also be confiscated.

The officer will fill out an affidavit and send yourlicense to the DMV without going through a court process and possibly without giving you a ticket. You will then need to set up an administrative hear-ing to dispute this.

You must pay to reinstate your license at the end of the suspension period, your privileges are NOT automatically reinstated.

Once driving privileges have been revoked, you must apply to have driving privileges reinstated. It is NOT automatic, and you do not regain your driving privileges at the end of a period of revocation.

To apply to get your driving privileges back:

(1) Set up an appointment with a Hearing Officer for an Informal Hearing.

In Champaign, the phone number to the DMV is 217-278-3344. The office is located at 2401 West Bradley Avenue in Champaign, across the street from Parkland College. There is a map in the “Maps” section of our website.

(2) If reinstatement is granted, you will have to pay a fee of $70.00, $250.00 or $500.00, and show proof of insurance.

(3) You then have to wait for the Authorization form to come in the mail to reinstate your license. You will be required to take a written or driving exam, or both.

If your suspension or revocation was due to a DUI (Driving under the Influence) conviction, there are further require-ments. Please refer to our “DUI” bro-chure in our office or on our website.

Things to know about

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Driver’s License Required You must have a valid Driver’s License or Temporary Learner’s Permit to drive in Illinois.

A Learner’s Permit requires that a licensed driver over 21years old must be in the passenger seat, sober, awake, conscious and paying attention, NOT texting, reading, working on a computer or smart-phone, and not talking on a phone while you are driving. You cannot legally drive alone with a Learner’s Permit.

Your Driver’s License can be one issued by any State and almost any Country. If you

are a permanent resident of Illinois, as opposed to a temporary resident, you must give up your other driver’s license and obtain an Illinois license. Many students can claim temporary residency.

International Students: Watch out. Some local police officers do not know that licenses issued by other countries or that international driver’s licenses are usually valid, and they may issue you a ticket for “no valid driver’s license”.

If you are issued this ticket, fill out an intake form on the Student Legal Service website and come in to schedule an appointment to meet with a Student Legal Service attorney.

Insurance Required In Illinois, if you are driving a vehicle, you and the vehicle must be covered by insurance.

If you are driving a friend’s vehicle, make sure the vehicle is covered by insurance AND that the current insur-ance card is in the vehicle.

This insurance will likely also cover you while driv-ing the car. You can consult our brochure, “Auto Insurance for You”, in our office or on our website for more information on insurance requirements.

If you receive a traffic ticket, the court system in the county and state where you got the ticket will

Traffic Tickets

handle the disposition of the ticket (fine and costs).Even if you are found guilty, there may be ways to avoid a conviction by doing some sort of deferred dismissal program, such as taking traffic school.

Consult a Student Legal Service attorney about the possibility of avoiding the conviction by submitting the “Traffic or Accident” intake form on our website and coming in to set up an appointment to meet with one of the SLS attorneys.

Sometimes, the website for the court system or the information the officer gives you with the ticket may explain one way to avoid a conviction – this may not be the only way. If that information does not fit your circumstances, fill out an intake and consult a Student Legal Service attorney to see if there are other options.

NOTE: Parking Tickets are not Traffic Tickets. They cannot hurt your right to drive unless you do not pay them.

Many people drive over the speed limit. The police try to enforce speeding laws enough to keep people from danger-ous and excessive speeds. They can charge you for, and we have seen tick-ets for, only a few miles over the limit.

In Illinois, going 30-39 mph over the speed limit is a Class B Misdemeanor, 40+ mph over is a Class A Misdemeanor. You must appear in court for these in the county where the ticket was issued.

Most judges consider such speeds to be “inten-tionally reckless.” Any ticket for 40 mph or more over the limit is likely to result in fines in excess of $900.00 plus court costs.

If convicted, this will appear on your criminal back-ground check.

Although you think you are just going the same speed as others, you all are in danger of receiving speeding tickets.

Your license will be suspended and could be revoked for getting too many tickets.

Driver’s License Suspension and Revocation

The Court System must report supervisions and convictions for most traffic tickets to the Illinois Secretary of State’s Office, Division of Motor Ve-hicles (DMV).

The DVM may impose sanctions, such as the suspension or revocation of your driver’s license, depending on the type of ticket and the number of tickets recieved.

If you receive a ticket and have a license from another country, Illinois will create an Illinois Driver’s License number to track your convictions and deferred judgments so the DMV might still take action prohibiting you from driving.

If you receive a ticket out of state or if you have an out of state license, you need to know that traffic ticket information is shared by ALL the states , and the state in which you are licensed will get the information. This could cause that state to suspend or revoke your license based on their standards.

There are about 50 different types of violations or combination of violations that will result in the suspension or revocation of your Illinois driver’s li-cense. Two of the most common ways a student’s license is suspended are:

(1) if you are under 21 and have two traffic con-victions reported to the DMV in 24 months, your license will be suspended; and

(2) if you are 21 or older and have three traffic convictions in 12 months you license will be suspended.

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