Kentucky Statutes 186.620 – Unlawful to drive or permit another to drive without license — Display of license on request of peace officer — Defense
Current as of: 2024 | Check for updates
|
Other versions
(1) No person shall authorize or knowingly permit a motor vehicle owned or controlled by him to be driven by any person who has no legal right to drive it or in violation of any of the provisions of KRS § 186.400 to KRS § 186.640.
(2) No person who has not applied for an operator‘s license or whose operator’s license has been denied, canceled, suspended or revoked, or whose privilege to operate a motor vehicle has been withdrawn, shall operate any motor vehicle upon the highways while the license is denied, canceled, suspended, or revoked or his privilege to operate a motor vehicle is withdrawn, or the license has not been applied for.
(3) If the operator of a motor vehicle on a public highway is requested by a peace officer, authorized to arrest a person for a violation of subsection (2) of this section or KRS § 189A.090, to display his operator’s license and fails to display his operator’s license, that fact shall be admissible in court and shall be prima facie proof of violation of subsection (2) of this section or KRS § 189A.090.
(4) It shall be a defense to a charge under this section and KRS § 189A.090 if the person charged presents to the court an operator’s license issued to him before the date of the charge and which was valid on the date of the charge.
Effective: July 1, 1991
History: Amended 1991 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 15, sec. 21, effective July 1,
1991. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from
Ky. Stat. secs. 2739m-58, 2739m-59.
(2) No person who has not applied for an operator‘s license or whose operator’s license has been denied, canceled, suspended or revoked, or whose privilege to operate a motor vehicle has been withdrawn, shall operate any motor vehicle upon the highways while the license is denied, canceled, suspended, or revoked or his privilege to operate a motor vehicle is withdrawn, or the license has not been applied for.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 186.620
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Highway: means every way or place of whatever nature when any part of it is open to the use of the public, as a matter of right, license, or privilege, for the purpose of vehicular traffic. See Kentucky Statutes 186.010
- Motor vehicle: means in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 186.010
- Operator: means any person in actual control of a motor vehicle upon a highway. See Kentucky Statutes 186.010
- vehicle: means every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway, except electric low-speed scooters, devices moved by human and animal power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks, or which derives its power from overhead wires. See Kentucky Statutes 186.010
(3) If the operator of a motor vehicle on a public highway is requested by a peace officer, authorized to arrest a person for a violation of subsection (2) of this section or KRS § 189A.090, to display his operator’s license and fails to display his operator’s license, that fact shall be admissible in court and shall be prima facie proof of violation of subsection (2) of this section or KRS § 189A.090.
(4) It shall be a defense to a charge under this section and KRS § 189A.090 if the person charged presents to the court an operator’s license issued to him before the date of the charge and which was valid on the date of the charge.
Effective: July 1, 1991
History: Amended 1991 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 15, sec. 21, effective July 1,
1991. — Recodified 1942 Ky. Acts ch. 208, sec. 1, effective October 1, 1942, from
Ky. Stat. secs. 2739m-58, 2739m-59.