What does lifetime or permanent revocation mean?
A. When a court orders us to revoke a person’s driving privileges permanently or for a lifetime it is because the person was convicted of murder or manslaughter in the first degree and that it was determined the person used a motor vehicle as a dangerous weapon resulting in the death of another person; or that the person was convicted of felony driving while under the influence of intoxicants or convicted for a third or subsequent DUII offense. If driving privileges are lifetime or permanently revoked, the law says that the person may file a petition in the circuit court of the county in which the person resides for an order restoring driving privileges no sooner than 10 years after released on parole or post prison supervision; or 10 years after the person is sentenced to probation if the probation is not revoked and the person is not sentenced to imprisonment. DMV cannot restore driving privileges after being permanently revoked until the court sends us an order to do so.
