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Minnesota driving lesson · Your Driving Privileges

Limited license and cancellation

A 3-minute lesson from the Minnesota course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.

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Read time
3 minutes
Course unit
Your Driving Privileges
Checkpoint questions
6
Source pages
93, 98

A suspension or revocation doesn't always mean no driving at all. A limited license may let you drive for essential purposes, while cancellation means you have no legal right to the license you hold.

Limited license

A restricted license some drivers with a revoked or suspended license may get after meeting requirements, including any mandatory waiting period.

Handbook p. 93 ↗

A limited license only allows:

  • Travel to and from work
  • Travel to and from chemical dependency treatment or counseling
  • Transporting dependent children and household dependents for medical, educational or nutritional needs
  • Travel to and from a post-secondary school where you're enrolled
Handbook p. 93 ↗

Cancellation

Your license may be canceled when you don't have a legal right to the license issued to you.

Handbook p. 93 ↗

Your license may be canceled if you:

  • Acquire a mental or physical disability that makes you unable to drive safely
  • Fail a test DPS legally requests to check your ability to drive safely
  • Give false or misleading information on your license application
  • Commit a crime for which cancellation is a legal punishment
  • Don't qualify for a license under Minnesota law
Handbook p. 93 ↗
60 days

Cancellation for false application info — or until corrected, whichever is longer

Handbook p. 93 ↗

Know the rule

Drivers whose licenses are canceled and whose privileges are denied as "inimical to public safety" must use the Ignition Interlock Device Program for three to six years to regain full driving privileges.

Handbook p. 98 ↗

Know the rule

Commercial drivers can be disqualified — lose their CDL privileges — for certain offenses; see the Minnesota Commercial Driver's License Manual.

Handbook p. 93 ↗

Put it into practice

After a DWI revocation and the required waiting period, a driver gets a limited license. She may drive to work and to counseling, and take her son to the doctor — but not to a friend's party.

Check your understanding

Read the question, decide on an answer, then open it to check the explanation. These are Roadwise study questions based on the source handbook.

A limited license issued to someone with a revoked or suspended license restricts them to which activities?
  1. Any purpose, but only in daylight
  2. Any driving within your home county
  3. Any driving with a licensed adult
  4. Work, treatment, school and dependents' needs

Answer: Work, treatment, school and dependents' needs

A limited license restricts driving to specific purposes like work, treatment, education, and caring for dependents.

Handbook p. 93 ↗
Before a limited license is issued, what must you complete?
  1. Any mandatory waiting periods
  2. Nothing; it's issued on request
  3. A waiting period only if under 21
  4. Nothing if you have no prior offenses

Answer: Any mandatory waiting periods

You must meet requirements, including mandatory waiting periods, before a limited license is issued.

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If you give false or misleading information on a license application, how long is your license canceled?
  1. 30 days or until corrected, whichever is longer
  2. 60 days or until corrected, whichever is longer
  3. 60 days or until corrected, whichever is shorter
  4. 90 days or until corrected, whichever is longer

Answer: 60 days or until corrected, whichever is longer

Providing false information results in a cancellation of 60 days or until corrected, whichever is longer.

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Your license may be canceled if you acquire what kind of condition that makes you unable to drive safely?
  1. An expired vehicle registration
  2. A first speeding ticket
  3. A mental or physical disability
  4. A change of address

Answer: A mental or physical disability

A mental or physical disability that impairs your ability to drive safely can lead to cancellation.

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What can happen to your commercial driver's license (CDL) for certain driving offenses?
  1. Nothing; only Class D is affected
  2. It is converted to a Class D
  3. Only a fine applies
  4. They can be disqualified

Answer: They can be disqualified

Certain offenses can disqualify you from holding CDL privileges.

Handbook p. 93 ↗
A limited license allows unrestricted driving for any personal purpose.
  1. True
  2. False

Answer: False

A limited license only allows driving for specific approved purposes, like work or treatment.

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