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2022 Delaware Code
Title 21 - Motor Vehicles
Chapter 27. Driver’s License
Subchapter I. General Provisions
§ 2721. Duty to sign and carry license.
Universal Citation: 21 DE Code § 2721 (2022)
§ 2721. Duty to sign and carry license.
(a) Every person licensed as an operator shall write the person's usual signature, in a manner acceptable to the Department, in the spaces provided for that purpose on the license certificate and such license shall not be valid until the certificated is so signed.
(b) The licensee shall have such license in the licensee's immediate possession at all times when driving a motor vehicle and shall display the same upon demand of a uniformed police officer, justice of the peace, peace officer or motor vehicle inspector. It shall be a defense to any charge under this subsection if the person so charged produces in court an operator's license theretofore issued to such person and valid at the time of the arrest.
36 Del. Laws, c. 10, § 64; Code 1935, § 5602; 46 Del. Laws, c. 64; 21 Del. C. 1953, § 2719; 62 Del. Laws, c. 237, § 25; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1; 81 Del. Laws, c. 183, § 2;
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