A NEW law no longer allows the police to confiscate a driver’s license.
Gov. Juan N. Babauta on Friday signed Senate Bill 13-17 which is now Public Law 13-6.
Authored by Senate Vice President Jose M. Dela Cruz, D-Tinian, the new law states: “A person who is stopped by a police officer for a traffic or other related violation is required to surrender his…driver’s license pending a court appearance. The Legislature finds that to surrender one’s driver license is not only unnecessary because of the availability of obtaining a bench warrant from the court if the persons fails to appear at the appointed time, but also very inconvenient to the person who may rely exclusively on the driver’s license as the persons’ sole form of identification for common everyday transactions.”
