A 3-minute lesson from the South Dakota course. Read the rules and examples, follow the handbook page references, and check your understanding before you move on.
Suspension and revocation both take away your right to drive, but getting back on the road is different for each. Teens on permits also face their own automatic suspensions.
Revocation
Loss of your license and/or privilege to drive or apply. To return, you retake vision and knowledge tests and pay the application fee plus a $50-$200 reinstatement fee.
Loss of your license and/or privilege to drive or apply. To return: no testing unless the license expired, plus the application fee and a $50 reinstatement fee.
After a first-offense permit suspension, you don't pay the $50 reinstatement and application fee unless the conviction was a moving offense assessed six or more points; you may apply for a duplicate.
A 15-year-old with an Instruction Permit gets a second traffic conviction two months before turning 16. The suspension is 180 days or until the 16th birthday, whichever is longer, so it lasts 180 days.
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 minor under 16 is convicted of a first traffic violation while holding an Instruction Permit. How long is the suspension?
60 days
180 days
30 days
90 days
Answer: 30 days
A first traffic conviction for a minor under 16 on an Instruction Permit results in a 30-day suspension, unless otherwise required by law.