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Vehicle Code 14601 and Vehicle Code 12500: Punishing Unlicensed Driving in California

By Neil Shous, Esq.

California has two primary criminal laws that punish people for driving a motor vehicle when they are not properly licensed. California Vehicle Code 12500 makes it a misdemeanor to drive without a valid driver?s license. California Vehicle Code 14601 makes it a misdemeanor to drive on a suspended license. California Vehicle Code 12500 is a relatively straightforward statute. It makes it a crime to drive without a validly issued license. This most often applies to people who never obtained a drivers license in the first place, or who failed to renew their license upon expiration, or people who moved to California and failed to switch from a license issued in the previous state to a California drivers license. Vehicle Code 14601, on the other hand, applies to someone who had a valid driver?s license but whose license got suspended...continue to full post

Full post as published by California Criminal Defense Blog on May 22, 2009 (boomark / email).