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186.440 Persons ineligible for operator's license -- Reinstatement fee.
An operator's license shall not be granted to:
(1) Any person who is not a resident of Kentucky;
(2) Any person under the age of sixteen (16);
(3) Any person under the age of eighteen (18) who holds a valid Kentucky instruction
permit issued pursuant to KRS 186.450, but who has not graduated from high
school or who is not enrolled and successfully participating in school or who is not
being schooled at home, except those persons who satisfy the District Court of
appropriate venue pursuant to KRS 159.051(3) that revocation of their license
would create an undue hardship. Persons under the age of eighteen (18) shall
present proof of complying with the requirements of KRS 159.051;
(4) Any person whose operator's license has been suspended, during the period of
suspension, subject to the limitations of KRS 186.442;
(5) Any person whose operator's license has been revoked, nor to any nonresident
whose privilege of exemption under KRS 186.430 has been refused or discontinued,
until the expiration of the period for which the license was revoked, or for which the
privilege was refused or discontinued;
(6) Any applicant adjudged incompetent by judicial decree;
(7) Any person who in the opinion of the Department of Kentucky State Police, after
examination, is unable to exercise reasonable and ordinary control over a motor
vehicle upon the highways;
(8) Any person who is unable to understand highway warnings or direction signs in the
English language;
(9) Any person required by KRS 186.480 to take an examination who has not
successfully passed the examination;
(10) Any person required by KRS Chapter 187 to deposit proof of financial
responsibility, who has not deposited that proof;
(11) Any person who has not filed a correct and complete application attested to in the
presence of a person authorized to administer oaths;
(12) Any person who cannot meet the requirements set forth in KRS 186.411(1) or (3);
or
(13) Any person whose operator's license has been suspended or revoked under the
provisions of KRS Chapter 186, 187, or 189A who has not paid the reinstatement
fee required under KRS 186.531.
Effective: March 27, 2020
History: Amended 2020 Ky. Acts ch. 51, sec. 13, effective March 27, 2020. -Amended 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 100, sec. 24, effective January 1, 2019. -- Amended
2007 Ky. Acts ch. 85, sec. 193, effective June 26, 2007. -- Amended 2003 Ky. Acts
ch. 189, sec. 2, effective June 24, 2003. -- Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 264, sec. 6,
effective July 15, 2002. -- Amended 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 442, sec. 5, effective July 15,
1998. -- Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 198, sec. 4, effective October 1, 1996; and ch.
341, sec. 10, effective July 15, 1996. -- Amended 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 267, sec. 1,
effective July 15, 1994; ch. 416, sec. 7, effective July 15, 1994; and ch. 455, sec. 3,
effective July 15, 1994. -- Amended 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 63, sec. 1, effective July 13,
1990; and ch. 234, sec. 2, effective July 13, 1990. -- Amended 1986 Ky. Acts ch.
123, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1986. -- Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 88, sec. 1,
effective July 15, 1980. -- Amended 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 92, sec. 8, effective June 17,
1978. -- Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 306, sec. 2. -- Amended 1966 Ky. Acts ch. 78,
sec. 1; and ch. 255, sec. 170. -- Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective
October 1, 1942, from Ky. Stat. sec. 2739m-37.
Legislative Research Commission Note (7/15/94). This section was amended by 1994
Ky. Acts chs. 267, 416, and 455. Where these Acts are not in conflict, they have been
codified together. Where a conflict exists, Acts ch. 416, which was last enacted by
the General Assembly, prevails under KRS 446.250.
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