Section 1340-01-13-.18 - CONTENTS AND DESIGN OF LICENSES AND TEMPORARY LICENSES(1) Upon payment of the required fees the Department shall issue to every qualified applicant a driver license or temporary driver license indicating the type or general class of vehicles the licensee may drive, or a photo identification license or temporary photo identification license indicating the license is for identification purposes only and not valid for vehicular use.(2) Each driver license, temporary driver license, photo identification license and temporary photo identification license issued shall contain the following: (a) The name of this State and a distinguishing number-,(b) The applicant's full. legal name, date of birth, and current residential street address (or post office box number if the applicant has no bona fide residential street address);(c) A brief physical description of the applicant, including sex, height, and eye color for photo licenses, and race, sex, height, weight, hair color, and eye color for non-photo licenses;(d) The dates the license was issued and will expire;(e) Restrictions and/or conditions which apply to the licensee;(f) Organ/tissue donor information; and(g) Either the facsimile of the applicant's usual signature or a space upon which the licensee shall write the licensee's usual signature with pen and ink.(3) Special requirements in addition to those specified in subpart (2) include the following: (a) commercial driver licenses shall show the applicant's social security number;(b) duplicate driver licenses, temporary driver licenses, photo identification licenses and temporary photo identification licenses shall note that the license is a duplicate of an original license.(c) photo identification licenses and temporary photo identification licenses shall have printed prominently thereon the following statement: "For identification Purposes Only, Not Valid For Vehicular Operation"; and(d) any driver license, temporary driver license, photo identification license or temporary photo identification license issued to someone less than twenty-one (21) years of age shall identify the licensee as being under twenty-one (21) years of age by prominently bearing the words and numbers "Under 21" and showing the month and year the licensee will become twenty-one (21) years of age.(e) If the applicant has provided a social security number to the department, a phrase substantially similar to "On File" shall be printed in an appropriate location on the license. If the applicant does not have, or who states that the applicant has never been issued a social security number required by T.C.A. § 55-50-321(c)(1)(A), the applicant shall complete an affidavit, under the penalty of perjury, affirming that the applicant has never been issued a social security number. A phrase substantially similar to "None Provided" shall be printed in an appropriate location on the license. Such phrases shall be in red or other distinctive lettering.(4) All driver and photo identification licenses shall bear a color photograph of the applicant furnished by the Department, or bear an endorsement that no photograph is required. Persons sixty (60) years of age or older may elect to obtain a non-photo bearing license.(a) All temporary driver licenses and temporary photo identification licenses shall bear a color photograph of the applicant provided by the Department.(5) No license shall be considered valid unless it bears the applicant's photograph (or endorsement that no photograph is required) and the applicant's signature or facsimile of signature.(6) To the maximum extent practicable all licenses issued shall be tamper resistant.(7) Records of driver licenses, temporary driver licenses, photo identification licenses and temporary photo identification licenses as issued shall be maintained by the Department.Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1340-01-13-.18
Original rule filed April 8, 1996; effective August 28, 1996. Amendment filed October 22, 2002; effective January 5, 2003. Amendment filed July 27, 2004; effective November 26, 2004. Public necessity rule filed September 24, 2007, effective through March 7, 2008. Public necessity rule filed September 24, 2007, expired March 8, 2008. Public necessity rule filed March 11, 2008, effective through August 23, 2008. Amendments filed December 3, 2007; effective April 29, 2008.Authority: T.C.A. §§ 55-50-102, 55-50-202, 55-50-321, 55-50-323, 55-50-331, 55-50-333, 55-50-334, 55-50-335, 55-50-336, 55-50-407, Public Chapter No. 194, 2007 and Public Acts of 2004; Chapter 778.