Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:422 – Learner’s license; driving school instruction permit; special restrictions on motorcycles
Terms Used In Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:422
- Department: means the Department of Public Safety and Corrections. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
- Guardian: A person legally empowered and charged with the duty of taking care of and managing the property of another person who because of age, intellect, or health, is incapable of managing his (her) own affairs.
- Motor vehicle: means and includes automobiles, trucks, truck-tractors, trailers, semitrailers, and motorcycles, propelled by steam, gasoline, electricity, or any other source of energy other than muscular power, except electric-assisted bicycles, farm implements temporarily operated or moved on a highway or vehicles operated only on rails or tracks constructed therefor. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
- Motorcycle: means every motor vehicle having a seat or saddle for the use of the rider and designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, but excluding a tractor and an electric-assisted bicycle or a motorized bicycle. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 32:401
- person: includes a body of persons, whether incorporated or not. See Louisiana Revised Statutes 1:10
A. Any person who is at least seventeen years of age may apply to the department for a learner’s license to drive motor vehicles or power cycles, provided such person has completed a driving course in accordance with La. Rev. Stat. 32:402.1. The department may, in its discretion, after the applicant has successfully passed all parts of the examination, other than the driving test, issue to the applicant a learner’s license at the regular fee of a Class “E” driver’s license, which shall entitle the applicant while having such license in his immediate possession to drive a motor vehicle upon public highways when accompanied by a licensed parent or guardian, by a licensed adult at least twenty-one years of age, or by a licensed sibling at least eighteen years of age. In addition to a licensed parent, sibling, guardian, or adult, there may be other members of the licensee’s immediate family in the vehicle, and when accompanied by a driver’s education instructor, there may be one or more fellow driver’s education students in the vehicle. It shall be unlawful for any other person to accompany the beginner and licensed driver, except in the event the applicant is operating a motorcycle. Any person under the age of seventeen who has a valid learner’s license and is operating a motorcycle is restricted to a distance of three miles from the applicant’s residence, unless a parent, tutor, or other person having custody is temporarily staying or residing at another location, where the applicant would be restricted to within three miles of that location. Any person seventeen years of age or older being issued a learner’s license may apply for a regular Class “E” license thirty days after the issuance of a learner’s license, or at any time after the issuance of the learner’s license provided the applicant provides proof that the applicant has completed an approved thirty-six hour driver education course, and there shall not be any additional fee for the regular license.
B. Repealed by Acts 2016, No. 317, §2.
Amended by Acts 1954, No. 165, §8; Acts 1992, No. 382, §1, eff. July 1, 1993; Acts 1994, 3rd Ex. Sess., No. 119, §1, eff. July 7, 1994; Acts 1995, No. 163, §1, eff. June 12, 1995; Acts 1995, No. 1247, §1; Acts 1997, No. 725, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1998; Acts 2001, No. 427, §1; Acts 2011, No. 294, §2; Acts 2016, No. 317, §2.