2021 Kentucky Revised Statutes Chapter 186 - Licensing of motor vehicles, operators, and trailers 186.4102 Photograph required for operator's license, instructional permit, or personal identification card -- Identification number -- Age and organ donor designations -- Voluntary travel ID identity document -- When photograph not required.
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186.4102
Photograph required for operator's license, instructional permit, or
personal identification card -- Identification number -- Age and organ donor
designations -- Voluntary travel ID identity document -- When photograph not
required.
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Except as provided in subsection (9) of this section, the Transportation Cabinet
shall issue operator's licenses and personal identification cards bearing a photograph
of the applicant and other information the cabinet may deem appropriate to
qualified applicants under this chapter. When taking the photograph, the applicant
shall be prohibited from wearing sunglasses, veils, scarves, or any other attire that
obscures or creates shadows upon any features of the applicant's face as determined
by the cabinet. An applicant shall be required to remove eyewear that obstructs the
iris or the pupil of the eyes and shall not take any action to obstruct a photograph of
his or her facial features. The face shall be visible from the crown to the base of the
chin and from ear to ear. Any person who refuses to remove attire prohibited by this
subsection as directed by the person taking the application shall be prohibited from
receiving an operator's license or personal identification card.
An operator's license or personal identification card issued by the cabinet shall not
contain the applicant's Social Security number. The cabinet shall promulgate
administrative regulations in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A that develop a
numbering system that uses an identification system other than Social Security
numbers. If an applicant submits adequate proof that he or she does not have a
Social Security number, the Transportation Cabinet shall assign the applicant a
unique identifying number.
The license or personal identification card shall also designate by color coding and
using the phrase "under 21" if the licensee or card holder is under the age of twentyone (21); "CDL" if the license is issued pursuant to KRS Chapter 281A; or "under
21 CDL" if the licensee holds a commercial driver's license issued pursuant to KRS
Chapter 281A and is under the age of twenty-one (21).
The cabinet shall provide on each operator's license and personal identification card
space for a notation that the holder of the license or personal identification card has
expressed to the cabinet the person's willingness to make an anatomical gift under
KRS 311.1917. If a person who has made a declaration under this subsection wishes
to rescind that declaration, the person shall notify the Kentucky Circuit Court
Clerks' Trust for Life, which shall remove the notation from his or her records.
An operator's license issued pursuant to this chapter shall be designated a Class D
license.
A person shall not have more than one (1) operator's license.
Upon marriage, dissolution of marriage, or any other qualifying event, if a person
seeks to change his or her name, the person shall make a name change with the
Social Security Administration prior to applying for an operator's license or a
personal identification card and shall provide the cabinet with the person's marriage
license, divorce decree, or other documentation. The name issued on the identity
document shall match the person's first and last name as recorded with the Social
Security Administration. Unless a person is eligible to renew his or her identity
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document at the time of the name change, the fee charged under this section shall be
for a corrected identity document as set forth in KRS 186.531.
An identity document issued under this chapter shall contain a denotation that
either:
(a) The identity document is a voluntary travel ID identity document that
complies with the security standards set forth by Pub. L. No. 109-13, Title II,
and may be used for identification for federal purposes; or
(b) The identity document shall not be used for federal identification purposes.
(a) The Transportation Cabinet may provide for the issuance of an instruction
permit, operator's license, or personal identification card without a photograph
if there is good cause for the omission based in documented religious
objections. The Transportation Cabinet shall promulgate administrative
regulations pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A to establish the criteria and
requirements for obtaining an operator's license, instruction permit, or
personal identification card without a photograph.
(b) An applicant for an initial instruction permit, operator's license, or personal
identification card without a photograph shall apply to the Transportation
Cabinet in Frankfort or a Transportation Cabinet field office. The application
shall be processed solely by the Transportation Cabinet in the same manner as
in KRS 186.4121(5) and 186.4123(8).
(c) An operator's license, instruction permit, or personal identification card issued
without a photograph shall denote on its face that it shall not be accepted by
any federal agency for identification or any other federal purpose.
Effective: March 27, 2020
History: Amended 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 51, sec. 4, effective March 27, 2020. -- Created
2017 Ky. Acts ch. 100, sec. 6, effective January 1, 2019.
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