2020 California Code
Vehicle Code - VEH
DIVISION 6 - DRIVERS' LICENSES
CHAPTER 1 - Issuance of Licenses, Expiration, and Renewal
ARTICLE 5 - Identification Cards
Section 13000.
(a) (1) The department may issue an identification card to any person attesting to the true full name, correct age, and other identifying data as certified by the applicant for the identification card.
(2) The department may not issue a Real ID identification card to a person who holds a Real ID driver’s license.
(3) The department may cancel an identification card in order to enable compliance with paragraph (2).
(b) Any person 62 years of age or older may apply for, and the department upon receipt of a proper application therefor shall issue, an identification card bearing the notation “Senior Citizen.”
(c) Every application for an identification card shall be signed and verified by the applicant before a person authorized to administer oaths and shall be supported by bona fide documentary evidence of the age and identity of the applicant as the department may require, and shall include a legible print of the thumb or finger of the applicant.
(d) Any person 62 years of age or older, and any other qualified person, may apply for, or possess, an identification card under the provisions of either subdivision (a) or (b), but not under both of those provisions.
(e) This section shall become operative on January 1, 2018.
(Repealed (in Sec. 11) and added by Stats. 2016, Ch. 339, Sec. 12. (SB 838) Effective September 13, 2016. Section operative January 1, 2018, by its own provisions.)
