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<section article="gtr" article_name="Transportation" number="16-103.1" title_number="16" title_name="Vehicle Laws -- Drivers' Licenses" subtitle_number="1" subtitle_name="Issuance, Expiration, and Renewal of Licenses">
  <text>The Administration may not issue a driver’s license to an individual:</text>
  <level label="1">
    <text>During any period for which the individual’s license to drive is revoked, suspended, refused, or canceled in this or any other state, unless the individual is eligible for a restricted license under § 16–113(e) of this subtitle;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="2">
    <text>Who is an habitual drunkard, habitual user of narcotic drugs, or habitual user of any other drug to a degree that renders the individual incapable of safely driving a motor vehicle;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="3">
    <text>Who previously has been adjudged to be suffering from any mental disability or mental disease and who, at the time of application, has not been adjudged competent;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="4">
    <text>Who is required by this title to take an examination, unless the individual has passed the examination;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="5">
    <text>Whose driving of a motor vehicle on the highways the Administration has good cause to believe would be inimical to public safety or welfare;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="6">
    <text>Who is unable to exercise reasonable control over a motor vehicle due to disease or a physical disability, including the loss of an arm or leg or both, except that, if the individual passes the examination required by this title, the Administration may issue the individual a restricted license requiring the individual to wear a workable artificial limb or other similar body attachment;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="7">
    <text>Who is unable to understand highway warning or direction signs written in the English language;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="8">
    <text>Who is unable to sign the individual’s name for identification purposes;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="9">
    <text>Who is 70 years old or older and applying for a new license, unless the applicant presents to the Administration:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Proof of the individual’s previous satisfactory operation of a motor vehicle; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>A written certification acceptable to the Administration from a licensed physician attesting to the general physical and mental qualifications of the applicant;</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="10">
    <text>Who does not provide satisfactory documentary evidence of lawful status;</text>
  </level>
  <level label="11">
    <text>Who does not provide:</text>
    <level label="i">
      <text>Satisfactory documentary evidence that the applicant has a valid Social Security number by presenting the applicant’s Social Security Administration account card or, if the Social Security Administration account card is not available, any of the following documents bearing the applicant’s Social Security number:</text>
      <level label="1">
        <text>A current W–2 form;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="2">
        <text>A current SSA–1099 form;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="3">
        <text>A current non–SSA–1099 form; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="4">
        <text>A current pay stub with the applicant’s name and Social Security number on it; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="ii">
      <text>Satisfactory documentary evidence that the applicant is not eligible for a Social Security number; or</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="12">
    <text>Who otherwise does not qualify for a license under this title.</text>
  </level>
</section>
