Section 1340-02-05-.08 - SUSPENSIONS OF LICENSE FOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH THE REINSTATEMENT FEE INSTALLMENT PAYMENT PLAN(1) The department, upon such person's failure to comply with the department's payment plan, shall issue, by regular mail to the person's last known address, a notice of intent to suspend the license of such person in thirty (30) days. For the purposes of this subdivision, "failure to comply" means failure to pay any installment payment on the date due.(2) Any person who fails to make the minimum quarterly payment as established will be sent a driver license suspension notice.(a) The suspension notice will advise the person that they have not complied with the reinstatement fee installment payment plan and the amount of reinstatement fee that is due for that particular quarter.(b) The suspension notice will advise the person that they have thirty (30) days to either send in the required quarterly payment or request an administrative hearing, pursuant to Rule No. 1340-2-5-.09. The request for an administrative hearing will not extend the thirty- (30) day period to send in the quarterly payment.(c) The notice will also advise the person that should the person decide to send in the required quarterly payment, the mailing of such payment must be postmarked within thirty (30) days from the date of the suspension notice letter sent to such person.(d) The notice shall also advise the person that if the person does not elect to pay the quarterly payment or request an administrative hearing, then such person's driver license and privileges would be suspended and full payment of the reinstatement fee would be required prior to reinstatement of any driver license.(e) The notice will be sent to the last known address of the person according to the department of safety driver license database.(f) The notice shall also advise the person that if the driver license is suspended, the person's driver license status would revert back to the original driver license status prior to entering the reinstatement fee installment payment plan.Tenn. Comp. R. & Regs. 1340-02-05-.08
Original rule filed May 30, 2001; effective September 28, 2001.Authority: T.C.A. §§ 55-50-202 and 55-12-129 as amended by Public Chapter 43 of the Public Acts of 2001.