2016 Arkansas Code
Title 27 - Transportation
Subtitle 2 - Motor Vehicle Registration and Licensing
Chapter 16 - Driver's Licenses Generally
Subchapter 9 - -- Expiration, Cancellation, Revocation, or Suspension
§ 27-16-901. Expiration and renewal of licenses. [Effective January 1, 2016.]

(a) (1) (A) Except for the intermediate driver's license and the learner's license, every driver's license shall expire at the end of the month in which it was issued eight (8) years from its date of initial issuance unless the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles shall provide, by regulation, for some other staggered basis of expiration.

(B) A learner's license shall be issued for no more than a two-year period and shall expire upon the driver's reaching sixteen (16) years of age. Any person sixteen (16) years of age may apply for an intermediate driver's license, provided that his or her driving record is free of a serious accident and conviction of a serious traffic violation for the most recent six-month period.

(C) An intermediate driver's license shall be issued for no more than a two-year period and shall expire upon the driver's reaching eighteen (18) years of age and may be renewed at that time as a regular driver's license for eight (8) years, so long as the intermediate driver has been free of a serious accident and conviction of a serious traffic violation for at least twelve (12) months before arriving at his or her eighteenth birthday.

(2) (A) The commissioner shall have the authority, by regulation, to shorten or lengthen the term of any driver's license period, as necessary, to ensure that approximately twenty-five percent (25%) of the total valid licenses are renewable each fiscal year.

(B) (i) All drivers' licenses subject to change under this subsection shall also be subject to a pro rata adjustment of the license fee charged in § 27-16-801(a).

(ii) The adjustment of the fee shall be carried out in the manner determined by the commissioner by regulation.

(b) Every driver's license shall be renewable on or before its expiration upon completion of an application, payment of the fees designated in § 27-16-801, and passage of the eyesight test required in § 27-16-704 and shall be renewed without other examination, unless the commissioner has reason to believe that the licensee is no longer qualified to receive a license.