Appealing a Lifetime License Suspension
For most residents of the Indianapolis area, having a valid driver’s license is a necessity. You need your driver’s license to travel to and from your job, as well as to run every day errands and to ensure that your kids can reach extracurricular destinations. Yet your driving privileges can be at risk in many different types of cases, including those involving multiple or serious traffic infractions, charges for operating a vehicle while intoxicated (OWI), and convictions for other types of criminal offenses. For any infractions issued or convictions after 2014, you will not face the possibility of a lifetime suspension or forfeiture of your driver’s license, but you can nonetheless have your license suspended for a period of time. But you may have multiple options for getting back on the road.
It is also crucial to know that you may be able to have your driver’s license reinstated if you have been living with a lifetime license suspension that occurred before 2014. Many Indiana residents do not realize that those lifetime suspensions are no longer issued, and that they may be able to get their driving privileges back. Our Indianapolis driver’s license rehabilitation attorney can tell you more, and we can speak with you today about your case.
Is It Possible to Appeal a Lifetime License Suspension?
It is possible to appeal your lifetime license suspension. Although the process is not known as an “appeal,” the key takeaway is that you may be able to have your driving privileges reinstated even if you were subject to a lifetime license suspension or forfeiture when these still happened (prior to 2014).
What does the process involve for getting your driver’s license back? You will not be filing an “appeal,” but instead a legal petition to have the lifetime license suspension rescinded.
Filing a Petition for Rescission of Lifetime Suspension of Driving Privileges
If you were subject to a lifetime license suspension, the first step in getting your license back is to file a petition for rescission of lifetime suspension of driving privileges under IC 9-30-10-14.1.
Under the statute, you are not eligible if you were classified as a habitual offender due to the reckless or intoxicated operation of a vehicle that resulted in another person’s death under IC 9-30-10-4(a). Others, however, may be able to file this petition as long as 10 years elapsed since the lifetime suspension — this should now be true for all potential applicants — and other conditions are met. In order to be eligible to file this petition, you will need to include specific statutory information in the petition.
Contact an Indianapolis License Rehabilitation Lawyer Today
If your license has been suspended, or if you are facing any other action against your driver’s license because of a history of traffic infractions or OWI charges, it is essential to seek legal advice. Your driver’s license can be suspended for a wide range of reasons, and although it is no longer ordered, many Indiana residents are still under lifetime license suspensions based on their driving history. With assistance from one of the experienced Indianapolis license rehabilitation attorneys at Rigney Law LLC, you may be able to have your license reinstated. To find out more about how our firm can assist you, contact Rigney Law LLC today.
Sources:
law.justia.com/codes/indiana/title-9/article-30/chapter-10/section-9-30-10-14-1/
law.justia.com/codes/indiana/title-9/article-30/chapter-10/section-9-30-10
