hahabogus wrote:
> "Nancy Young" > wrote in
> :
>
>> "James Silverton" > wrote
>>
>>> They seem to insist on a personal appearance in MD and have done so
>>> for a long time. As I mentioned responding to Blake, Montgomery, tho'
>>> not the rest of the MD counties, has a number of sub-stations where
>>> you can renew permits and get IDs. For driver's permits, they do the
>>> photographs and eye tests.
>> Funny, here only in very recent years were you required to appear to
>> renew your license, you just mailed it in with a check. Now we
>> have to show up every time with a full proof of ID, starting with
>> birth certificate and on up. But I have never been asked to take an
>> eye exam, maybe with the exception of first getting a license, and I
>> don't remember taking one then. Never since.
>>
>> nancy
>>
>>
>>
>
> Every time I renew my handicapp sticker I get called in. I have to write
> the written test, get a eye test and have a doctor's note for my driver
> liscense renewal.
>
It is a personal visit, eye exam, and new license every 5 years IIRC,
here in Louisiana. My handicap hang tag expires every ten years and I
have to go in, pay four bucks, get my picture taken and get a separate
handicap ID to go with the number on the hang tag. The police do check
them occasionally so I guess it's a good thing.