"blake murphy" > ha scritto nel messaggio
> *you* find it readily available. if you have no car and live 50 miles
> from the registrar, with public transportation spotty or unavailable,
> suddenly it's not.
>
> your pal,
> blake

I don't recall the method, but I do think they produce non-license photo ID
cards at the MVA in MD. No one wants to go there, but one can.

I had a friend who was 100% blind who kept her license current before the
advent of photo licenses for just that reason. Now you have to let them see
you every few years, but then as long as you paid, they sent new ones.

In article >,
"Giusi" > wrote:


> I had a friend who was 100% blind who kept her license current before the
> advent of photo licenses for just that reason. Now you have to let them see
> you every few years, but then as long as you paid, they sent new ones.

Don't know about MD or your friend, but here in California, to renew
your driver's license by mail, you have to sign a form, which states
that you are certifying by your signature that you have had no visual
impairments since your vision was last screened by them.

--
Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA

Dan Abel wrote:

> Don't know about MD or your friend, but here in California, to renew
> your driver's license by mail, you have to sign a form, which states
> that you are certifying by your signature that you have had no visual
> impairments since your vision was last screened by them.
>
Many years ago when I was first married and moved about the country I
used to renew my Maryland drivers license from out of state via mail,
and it would arrive back without any photo. The square photo spot said
"Valid without Photo". Who could tell if I lied about my eye color or
weight?? LOL

Goomba38 wrote on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:42:19 -0400:

??>> Don't know about MD or your friend, but here in
??>> California, to renew your driver's license by mail, you
??>> have to sign a form, which states that you are certifying
??>> by your signature that you have had no visual impairments
??>> since your vision was last screened by them.
??>>

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.


James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

E-mail, with obvious alterations:
not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

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.
>
>
> James Silverton
> Potomac, Maryland
>
> E-mail, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

I was renewing that license about 20 years or so ago. They allowed it
back then at least (at least for military folks stationed in DC/MD area)

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 20:55:48 GMT, "James Silverton"
> wrote:

> Goomba38 wrote on Mon, 21 Apr 2008 16:42:19 -0400:
>
> ??>> Don't know about MD or your friend, but here in
> ??>> California, to renew your driver's license by mail, you
> ??>> have to sign a form, which states that you are certifying
> ??>> by your signature that you have had no visual impairments
> ??>> since your vision was last screened by them.
> ??>>
>
>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.
>
>
>James Silverton

the non-driver's i.d. has a photo, and you must appear to get one.

your pal,
blake

"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

"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.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

A man in line at the bank kept falling over...when he got to a teller he
asked for his balance.

"hahabogus" > wrote

> "Nancy Young" > wrote

>> 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.

> 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.

No kidding. I guess I could see that with a handicapped sticker.
I'm not sure why they have you take the written test, who knows.

nancy

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.

hahabogus wrote:

> 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 puzzles me, that a written test is required, before you can renew a
handicapped sticker. That is just wrong.

Becca

Dan Abel wrote:
> In article >,
> "Giusi" > wrote:
>
>
>> I had a friend who was 100% blind who kept her license current
>> before the advent of photo licenses for just that reason. Now you
>> have to let them see you every few years, but then as long as you
>> paid, they sent new ones.
>
> Don't know about MD or your friend, but here in California, to renew
> your driver's license by mail, you have to sign a form, which states
> that you are certifying by your signature that you have had no visual
> impairments since your vision was last screened by them.
>
I've renewed my TN drivers license via the Internet the last two times.
They haven't actually *seen* me at the DMV for quite some time; they accept
an "electronic signature". They also extended the length of the license
from 4 to 5 years. I'm not sure at what point they'll figure out hmmm,
maybe she doesn't look the same as she did in 1996

Jill

On Tue 22 Apr 2008 06:30:14a, jmcquown told us...

> Dan Abel wrote:
>> In article >,
>> "Giusi" > wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I had a friend who was 100% blind who kept her license current
>>> before the advent of photo licenses for just that reason. Now you
>>> have to let them see you every few years, but then as long as you
>>> paid, they sent new ones.
>>
>> Don't know about MD or your friend, but here in California, to renew
>> your driver's license by mail, you have to sign a form, which states
>> that you are certifying by your signature that you have had no visual
>> impairments since your vision was last screened by them.
>>
> I've renewed my TN drivers license via the Internet the last two times.
> They haven't actually *seen* me at the DMV for quite some time; they
> accept an "electronic signature". They also extended the length of the
> license from 4 to 5 years. I'm not sure at what point they'll figure
> out hmmm, maybe she doesn't look the same as she did in 1996
>
> Jill
>
>

In Arizona licenses are good for 10 years, at which time one must go to the
license bureau for another vision exam and new photo.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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