How to get a driver's license in Alabama

Your first license comes from a trooper's office; your fifth comes from the courthouse

The division of labor is stated across several ALEA documents and it is worth learning before you drive anywhere. Examinations belong to ALEA's driver license examiners. So does first issuance: the fee page says out-of-state license transfers "must be at an ALEA Office", the STAR ID page says STAR IDs "are issued originally to qualified individuals only at Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Driver License exam offices", and the manual is blunt that to add, change or remove license classes, restrictions and endorsements "you must see a driver license examiner". The Code of Alabama sets the same split in § 32-6-4(a)(1): you apply to ALEA for an initial license or non-driver ID, and to the judge of probate or license commissioner of your county for a renewal.

The county desks carry the aftercare, and they carry a lot of it. A license that is lost, destroyed or illegible but not yet expired is replaced at the Probate Judge or License Commissioner Office with no examination, though you still bring proof of identity such as a certified birth certificate. Renewals may be done at either desk — probate offices, license commissioners' offices or ALEA examining offices — within the 180 days before your expiration date. An address change can be handled in person at any of the three, and the STAR ID page adds that county-operated license offices "will continue to provide renewals/duplicates for license, ID cards, and STAR ID", so holding a STAR ID does not by itself push a renewal back to ALEA.

There is one crossover worth memorizing because it costs a wasted drive. A name change normally goes to your probate judge, your license commissioner or any ALEA driver license office — but the manual carves out an exception: if you hold a STAR ID, the name change has to happen at an ALEA office. The manual also warns that a duplicate fee is charged for the corrected card, and that neither Alabama licenses nor non-driver identification cards are forwarded to another address, so a card sent to a stale address does not follow you.

Scheduling sits in a third place again. The manual sends you to a state portal at www.AlabamaDL.alea.gov to book a driver license appointment, pre-apply for a first license, permit or ID, reprint a temporary, request an administrative hearing or apply for a hardship license. Be warned that the address has been unreachable every time we have tested it — it answers with a redirect loop rather than a page — so treat it as the address ALEA prints rather than a link you can count on today, and phone a district office if it will not load for you either. Appointments are not a wall in any case: ALEA's graduated-license page says road-skills appointments can be booked up to two weeks in advance at select locations, and that "walk-ins are welcome at all testing sites".

The only exam figure Alabama prints is a price

Start with what is not there. Across everything read for this article — the November 2024 Alabama Driver Manual, eleven live alea.gov pages, the road-test study guide, and 454 sections of the Code of Alabama covering Title 32's rules of the road and its driver license chapter — not one document attaches a question count, a passing score, a percentage or a clock to the knowledge test. The manual's whole KNOWLEDGE TEST section runs to ten sentences, and only five of them describe the test at all — its price, its subject matter, its source in the booklet, the fact that it is automated, and the rule that collecting a motor-driven cycle license alongside a learner license means sitting two examinations rather than one. The other five are about which credential you are handed on passing and where to pick up a manual. The graduated-license page asks a Stage I applicant to "complete the written examination and receive a passing grade" and then moves on to the next bullet.

There is a reason, and it is written into the law. Section 32-6-3(b)(1) of the Code of Alabama hands the whole shape of the test to the agency: the Director "shall promulgate reasonable rules and regulations … as to the kind of examination or test to be given and the method and manner of giving the examination, ascertaining and reporting the results". The legislature declined to fix a number, the agency was told to make the rule, and the rule's numbers are not on a page we could reach. That is not the same thing as saying Alabama has no scoring standard — it certainly has one, and the examining office applies it the day you sit down. It means the standard is not published for you to study toward.

So where do the numbers on this site come from? From us. Our Alabama practice tests are built to a shape we chose: each one deals 30 questions and marks a run of 24 correct answers as a pass. Four right out of every five is our arithmetic on our own model, not a percentage Alabama printed, and you should not walk into a district office expecting either figure to be the one on the screen. Treat our line as a target to clear with room to spare rather than a threshold to squeak past, because the grade that counts on test day is whatever ALEA's own equipment calls passing.

What ALEA does commit to is worth studying, because it is the actual boundary of the test. The manual gives it two sentences of description, and they are the whole boundary: it "contains questions on Alabama traffic laws, road signs, and rules of safe driving", and it "will be taken from material found in this booklet". The manual itself is the syllabus, in other words, and nothing outside it is fair game. "Automated testing is available to all applicants taking the driver license knowledge test" — which means a screen, not a paper booklet. Applicants who cannot read and comprehend the written questions may be given oral examinations, which the manual says may be administered on that same automated equipment. And the written examination exists in eleven languages besides English — Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, French, German, Japanese, Korean, Russian, Spanish, Thai and Vietnamese, the full list the manual prints — with the manual directing you to a Driver License District Office for how each one is administered.

Five dollars is charged to the test, not to the trip

Alabama prices the examination separately from the card, and the law says so before the agency does. Section 32-6-21(a) requires every applicant for an original driver license, a temporary instruction and learner permit, or a motor-driven cycle operator license to pay an examination fee of five dollars, and adds the sentence that matters most if you fail: "The five dollar ($5) fee shall be required prior to each examination." The manual repeats the price and the payment rule together — "The fee for each knowledge test is $5.00, no checks accepted" — and ALEA's document-requirements table lists it on its own line as a "$5 test fee (no checks)", separate from the price of the credential.

The credential itself is $36.25 across most of the fee table: for a driver or learner license at 16 and older, for the learner license at 15, for a motor-driven cycle license, for a non-driver identification card, for a vessel license, and for a commercial learner license. Class C commercial licenses are also $36.25, Class B is $56.25 and Class A is $66.25. An out-of-state transfer is charged a $5 transfer fee plus the $36.25 purchase. Commercial applicants pay a $25 testing fee rather than $5, and a $20 skills-test fee on top when a skills test is required, which the page says is by appointment only.

Two cautions come straight from ALEA's own pages, and they pull in opposite directions, so read both. The graduated-license page says license fees "are subject to change and may be slightly higher in counties where local legislation permits a higher fee"; the manual's fee note says they "will be slightly higher" in those counties. Whichever verb your county lives under, the point is the same — the figures above are what these documents printed on the day we read them, and the courthouse can be dearer. Confirm the current amount on ALEA's document-requirements page before you go. The payment rule is firmer: the Driver License Division does not accept personal checks anywhere in this process, and the reinstatement page spells out the alternatives as money order, cashier's check, cash or credit card.

One fee waiver hides in the statute and appears on none of the agency fee pages read for this article. Section 32-6-21(a) says no driver license examination fee shall be charged to a "qualified student, as defined in Section 16-28-40(b)(2)" for a first examination, and § 32-6-4(b)(2) exempts a qualified student from the license issuance fee as well. The defining section is a school-attendance provision, and it is worth knowing that § 16-28-40 did not appear in the Code portal's own listing between §§ 16-28-24 and 16-28-41 when we looked, so we cannot print its text for you. If you are a high-school student, it costs nothing to ask the examiner whether the waiver applies to you before you pay.

The residence rule is two documents, and Alabama names fifteen that qualify

ALEA's document-requirements page gives each credential its own row, and the row for a driver or learner license at 16 and older is built from four ingredients: identity documents, a Social Security card, proof of school status if you are under 19, and two proofs of principal residence. Other rows are shaped differently — the CDL row adds a medical certification, a TSA background check, proof of insurance and a skills test, and the non-driver ID and vessel rows carry no school-status element at all. On the driver-license row, identity means two forms of identification with at least one photograph — one of them from the "primary" list, in addition to the Social Security card — or three forms of non-photo identification with the same primary-list requirement. The primary list runs to nine items: a certified U.S. birth certificate, an unexpired U.S. passport, an Alabama identification card, an Alabama driver license, a certificate of naturalization, a certificate of citizenship, a U.S. certificate of birth abroad, a Permanent Resident Card, and a valid foreign passport with a valid U.S. immigration document.

The residence requirement is the one that catches people out, because two documents is more than most drivers carry. ALEA lists fifteen acceptable proofs, and the range is wider than "a utility bill": a voter registration card, a residential mortgage contract, a current lease or rental agreement, proof of payment of residential property tax, the previous year's tax return bearing your address, a vehicle registration in your name and address, a water, gas or electric bill less than 90 days old, any state or federal court document indicating a residence address, school enrollment documentation, Defense Department Form 214, sex offender registration documents, a current homeowners insurance policy with your name and address, Social Security benefits statements mailed to your physical address, a U.S. or state government check or other document mailed to that address, and military orders documenting your duty station and place of residence. One footnote is easy to miss and expensive to discover at the counter: if the bill carries your spouse's or parent's name rather than yours, you must also produce a marriage certificate or birth certificate tying you to the address.

Two rules bite harder on younger and newer Alabamians. The manual is flat about the first: "All applicants under the age of 19 must present a current Student Enrollment/Exclusion Form (DL-1-93)", obtainable at your school or any driver license office and signed by authorized personnel. ALEA's fee page asks that same age group for something looser, and narrows who owes it — an "acceptable school enrollment form or proof of graduation", required "if younger than 19 and applying for the first time" — and its footnote names three documents that will do: Form DL1/93, a certificate of graduation, or a GED certificate. Carry the manual's version if you are still enrolled and your diploma or GED if you are not, because a graduated eighteen-year-old should not have to go back to a school they have left for a form. Either way the manual ties the requirement to Alabama Act 93-368, which conditions licensing on secondary school graduation or current attendance, with limited exclusions. And a fifteen-year-old has a documentary hurdle nobody older faces: the birth certificate itself, certified, and issued by no office but the Bureau of Vital Statistics. The manual pins that to Title 36-6-8(b); the fee page adds "NO PHOTOCOPIES" in capitals. A foreign-born applicant's birth certificate must be translated into English and certified by the embassy of the issuing country, unless a U.S. passport is used to prove date of birth instead.

Non-U.S. citizens have a parallel checklist rather than an extra one. The fee page asks for a valid foreign passport with an acceptable visa or a resident alien card, Social Security number verification or a letter from Social Security stating non-eligibility, and a document from the secondary list authorizing presence in the United States for more than 30 days. The manual narrows this further: the visa must fall in one of the categories it enumerates — A, B except B-1, E, F, G-4, H, I, J, K, L, M, NATO, O, P, Q, R, S, T, TN, TD, TPS, U or V — and it adds two document conditions, that F and M visa holders must also present Form I-20 and that J-1 and J-2 holders must also present Form DS-2019 or I AP-66. The manual also notes that a license issued on this basis is limited by the days of allowable time remaining in the United States.

Eighteen things the examiner watches, five that end the drive early

Alabama publishes a one-page Road Test Study Guide, and unlike the knowledge test it is specific. It opens with five ways to fail outright: being involved in an accident, violating the law, driving recklessly or dangerously, failing to cooperate with the examiner, and making several errors in safe driving practices "because of habit or not enough practice". Those are the only automatic endings the sheet names, and four of the five are about conduct rather than skill.

The eighteen scored items read like a checklist you can rehearse in a parking lot. Knowing where the controls are — brake, parking brake, light switch, dimmer, wiper control, ignition, gear selector. Clutch discipline, including holding the pedal down when your speed drops below 10 miles per hour while stopping. Posture, with both hands on the wheel and no elbow in the window. A smooth stop from low speed with a mirror check behind you. Backing about fifty feet, slowly and straight, with your head turned to the right and looking to the rear the whole way. Stop signs, traffic lights, the three-point turn about, approaching a corner, right of way, stopping and starting on an upgrade, turning, passing and merging, keeping in lane, use of the horn, following distance and speed.

Several of those items carry a measurement, and they are the ones examiners can score without argument. Stop on an upgrade means parallel to the curb and within 18 inches of it, wheels turned sharply to the left — to the right where there is no curb — rolling back until the back of the right front wheel rests against the curb, ignition off, parking brake set, transmission in reverse or, with an automatic, in park. A turn wants your signal at least 100 feet before the intersection, and the guide asks you not to keep signaling after the crosswalk. Following distance is judged on the two-second rule. The turn about is a single reversing movement in a narrow street without bumping the curb or using a driveway.

The car has to qualify before you do. The manual says an examiner will inspect the vehicle before testing begins to confirm it is in safe operating condition and carries the required equipment — brake lights, left and right turn signals, and horn — and that you must present proof of insurance and vehicle registration. A rental may be used only if your name appears on the rental agreement as an additional driver, and a 16-year-old applicant must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. ALEA's fee page adds the requirement adults sometimes forget. An applicant of 18 or older who wants all the testing done in a single visit has to turn up with three things: somebody else who is licensed to drive, current insurance on the car, and a car the examiner's inspection will pass.

The eye check that sends you to a specialist and back again

Alabama screens your vision before the rest of the examination, and here too it publishes a process without publishing a number. Nothing in the manual or on any alea.gov page read for this article gives an acuity standard — there is no 20-over-something to memorize from these documents. What the manual does say is what the screening decides: "If, as a result of the vision examination, it is found that lenses are needed to improve eyesight, you will be required to wear corrective lenses while driving."

That requirement is not advice; it is printed on the card. ALEA's list of license restrictions runs to twenty-four codes, and the first of them is "A - Corrective Lenses". The manual adds the rule that catches people on the day: "Those restricted to corrective lenses must wear them when taking the road test." So if the screening puts an A on your record, the glasses or contacts go on before the examiner gets in the car, not after.

Failing the screening is a detour rather than a dead end, and the manual describes the round trip precisely. You will be required to have your eyes examined by a licensed eye specialist and to return the report to the examiner; if the report shows you can see well enough to operate a motor vehicle safely, "you will be allowed to take the remainder of the test". The word remainder is doing real work there: you are not starting over, you are resuming. The documents speak of corrective lenses without separating glasses from contacts, so wear whatever actually corrects you — squinting through a screening is how a single visit becomes three.

Vision is not the only medical door. The manual's re-examination rule says that if you appear to have a physical or mental impairment that could affect your driving ability, you may be required to furnish a physician's statement describing the condition as it pertains to driving, and you may be required to appear periodically before an examiner to prove your ability to drive — failure to report such conditions can cost you the license by revocation. The Code adds a protection alongside the duty: § 32-6-7.1 forbids refusing a license on the grounds of physical appearance, speculation or generalization without probable cause, and gives an applicant the right to an impartial hearing, to counsel, to present a physician of their own choosing, and to appeal to circuit court for a trial de novo.

A star on the card, or a warning printed across the top of it

Alabama calls its federally compliant credential a STAR ID, and ALEA's page sets both the deadline and the geography. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security extended enforcement of the REAL ID Act to May 7, 2025, and effective that date every air traveler aged 18 and over needs a compliant license or ID, or another form of identification, for domestic air travel — and the page sends you to the TSA's own website for the full list of what it accepts rather than reproducing it. The same page says the requirement reaches beyond airports, and names the one substitute it does name: individuals who do not have an unexpired U.S. passport will need an Alabama STAR ID to board commercial aircraft for domestic flights or to enter certain regulated federal facilities.

Where the card is born matters, because it is the one errand the county cannot do for you. STAR IDs "are issued originally to qualified individuals only at Alabama Law Enforcement Agency Driver License exam offices", while county-operated license offices continue to provide renewals and duplicates for licenses, ID cards and STAR IDs. So the first STAR ID is a trip to ALEA; the second is a trip to the courthouse. And if you already hold one, remember the name-change rule from earlier in this guide: a STAR ID holder changing a name has to do it at ALEA.

Alabama also marks the cards that will not fly, which makes checking your wallet a five-second job. Any Alabama license or identification card issued on or after April 25, 2022 that is not compliant with the REAL ID Act displays "Not for Federal Identification" across the top of the credential. If that line is on your card, it is not a STAR ID, whatever else it is good for.

One warning about dates on ALEA's own site. Of the eleven pages read for this article, two carry a REAL ID enforcement date and they do not agree: the STAR ID page carries the extension to May 7, 2025, while the private high school driver education page still prints the superseded "Effective October 1, 2021". The STAR ID page is the one that treats the subject directly and carries the later date; treat the driver education page's line as stale rather than as a second opinion, and check the TSA's own list if the deadline is load-bearing for a trip you have already booked.

Your first Alabama license does not last four years

The manual gives the simple version — "Your driver license expires four years after it is issued" — and for a renewal that is exactly right. For an original license it is a rounding. Section 32-6-1(b) sets the first term by the parity of your birth year: an original license issued to a person born in an odd-numbered year expires on the second anniversary of their birth date occurring in an odd-numbered calendar year after the application date, and the same rule with "even" for a person born in an even-numbered year, with a proviso that if that would produce a term shorter than 24 months, the expiration is extended by an additional two years. Every renewal after that runs four years from the previous expiration date, regardless of when you actually renew. So look at the date on the card rather than counting four years from the day you were handed it.

The renewal window is generous at both ends, and the far end has teeth. You may apply from 180 days before expiration until three years after it, and Alabama law provides a 60-day grace period after the expiration date during which the license stays valid. Between the end of that grace period and the three-year mark, the license may be renewed without examination — but the manual is explicit that you still cannot legally drive on an expired license during that stretch. Past three years, the driver license information page says an applicant whose Alabama license has been expired for over three years must pass the required driver examination again, and § 32-6-1(b) puts it more sharply still: failure to apply within the specified time results in the applicant being required to take and pass a written examination and a driving test. Active-duty members of the U.S. Armed Forces are not held to the 180-day limit if they can show the licensing official that deployment prevented them from renewing in the window.

Arriving from another state has its own clock. Section 32-6-1(a) requires every new resident of Alabama to obtain an Alabama driver license within 30 days of establishing residence, and the driver license information page gives the matching grace: a non-resident with a valid license from a previous state of residence may drive for 30 days after becoming a resident. The transfer itself must be done at an ALEA office, and a holder of an out-of-state license that has not been expired more than one year does not have to pass a driver examination. The state also insists on exclusivity — an Alabama license will not be issued until every driver license in your possession has been surrendered to ALEA.

Moving within Alabama triggers a shorter deadline that costs nothing to meet. The manual gives you 30 days to notify the Driver License Division of a new address, citing Alabama Code 760-X-1-.07(7), and says an Alabama citizen with a license or identification card may update the address on their state driver record without charge — though a new card is not reissued on that basis. If you want the address changed on the card itself, you appear in person at a Driver License Examining Office, a probate judge's office or a license commissioner's office. Renewal by mail is a fourth path, open to military personnel and their dependents, students attending college, and other licensed Alabama drivers temporarily out of state for job requirements, provided an Alabama license with photo and signature was obtained within the last four years and a current photo and signature are on file. The Alabama address still has to appear on the card.

Twelve points in two years is where the arithmetic starts

Alabama runs a point system under § 32-5A-195, and ALEA publishes both halves of it — the tariff and the schedule. Convictions are worth 2 points for speeding 1 to 25 mph over the limit, all other moving violations, inability to control the vehicle, an improper lane violation, drinking alcohol while operating a vehicle, improper operation of a motorcycle, an emergency vehicle violation, failing to signal or using the wrong signal, an improper turn, coasting and unsafe operation; 3 points for following too closely, disregarding a traffic control device, and failing to obey construction or maintenance zone markers, a flagman, a police officer or a restricted lane; 4 points for wrong side of the road or illegal passing; 5 points for failure to yield right of way, passing a stopped school bus, and speeding 26 mph or more over the limit; and 6 points for reckless driving or reckless endangerment involving a motor vehicle, for admin per se, and for any conviction arising from a charge involving drinking and driving that did not require mandatory revocation.

The schedule turns those points into days off the road, counted over a rolling two-year window: 12 to 14 points in a two-year period is a 60-day suspension, 15 to 17 is 90 days, 18 to 20 is 120 days, 21 to 23 is 180 days, and 24 or more is 365 days. After a traffic conviction is two years old it loses its point count for suspension purposes but stays on your record — the points expire, the history does not. When a suspension notice arrives you may request a pre-suspension or administrative hearing in your county of residence before an ALEA agent, in writing to Driver License Services in Montgomery or through the state's online services.

The hands-free law has its own ladder, and it is worth reading closely because it is conditional. Effective June 2024, physically holding a wireless telecommunications device is a violation when a driver is observed crossing in and out of a traffic lane without signaling, swerving, or otherwise operating the vehicle in an improper manner — the manual attaches all three of those observed behaviors to the offense. A first conviction is a $50 fine and 1 point; a second, $100 and 2 points; a third, $150 and 3 points, within a 24-month period.

Getting the license back has a published price list, and ALEA's reinstatement page is more specific than the manual's "not less than $100". A suspended or cancelled license is $100 to reinstate, a revoked license $175, and an alcohol- or drug-related suspension or revocation $275 either way, with an additional $25 drug-related fee and a $150 interlock issuance fee where those apply. Failing to surrender the license within 30 days adds $50, and a child-support suspension adds $50 of its own. A driver record costs $5.75 and a crash report $15, with the page noting that Alabama Code 32-10-7 governs who may buy a crash report. No personal checks, again — money order, cashier's check, cash or credit card. And revocation is the harder reset of the two: the manual says that after a revocation period expires the driver applies for a new license and is required to take and pass the complete examinations, while a suspension simply ends and the license is reinstated unless it expired during the suspension or the suspension's requirements were not met.

A hardship license names the errands you may still run

When a suspension has already landed, Alabama has a limited-privilege credential governed by Rule 760-X-1-.24. ALEA's page names four routes to eligibility: participating in an Alabama Department of Corrections regulated work release program, participating in a recognized or compliant Community Corrections Program, being released from Department of Corrections custody, or having a license suspended or revoked with no reasonable transportation available. It is subject to all the laws, rules and restrictions that apply to a Class D license, and it carries its own restriction code — "HS - Hardship License" — on ALEA's published list.

The page enumerates seven categories of permitted driving, and the specificity is the point. Work, including job training, job readiness programming and job interviews. Church, meaning a religious service, an affiliated religious function, or a civic event recognized to meet basic secular needs for full societal participation. Education, covering a sanctioned Alabama educational institution where you are a regularly enrolled student, schools or childcare facilities where a family member or dependent is enrolled, and events sanctioned by them. Programs, meaning any court-ordered program, treatment, community service or event — drug or alcohol counseling, a court appearance, reporting to a probation and parole field office, a Community Corrections Program or work release. Medical, covering scheduled medical or mental health appointments, a pharmacy run for prescriptions, and medical emergencies. Groceries and household necessities, including essential household duties. And voting, if you are eligible.

The application is deliberately not an in-person errand. ALEA says all hardship applications must be submitted by email, fax or mail to the Hardship License Unit in Montgomery, or online under the Suspended License Help section, and that you cannot apply in person. A reviewing officer decides, and you learn the outcome by letter. If you are approved you then have 60 days to visit an ALEA Driver License Office to be issued the license, and missing that window means reapplying. Initial issuance must happen at ALEA, though a duplicate of an existing hardship license may be bought online or at a county office. The credential is valid for four years, but you reapply annually; if you are making good-cause progress toward clearing the issues on your record, it is renewed free for up to three years, and you can reapply within six months of expiration.

Three grounds of ineligibility close the door outright, and they are worth checking before you spend the postage. A person whose license is currently suspended or revoked for a serious traffic offense under Title 32 is ineligible as a risk to public safety — ALEA's examples include manslaughter or homicide by vehicle, any felony committed using a motor vehicle, leaving the scene of an accident with death or serious personal injury, and a conviction for fleeing or attempting to elude a police officer, and the page says plainly that this is not an exclusive list, pointing readers to the Alabama Code for more. A person adjudicated or convicted of DUI under § 32-5A-191 is not eligible to apply. And a driver who is medically ineligible for a Class D license cannot be approved. Two further limits are about what the credential can do rather than who can get one: an Alabama hardship license is valid only in Alabama and nowhere else, and it never carries commercial driving privileges. It can also be suspended or revoked in its own right under the same rule that creates it.

Alabama licensing — frequently asked questions

Official sources

• Alabama Driver Manual, November 2024 edition (ALEA Driver License Division) — the knowledge test, foreign-language and oral examinations, vision screening, the road test, renewals, duplicates, the point system and the hands-free law
• ALEA — Document Requirements and Fees: the $5 test fee, the $36.25 purchase fee, the primary and secondary document lists and the fifteen accepted proofs of principal residence
• ALEA — Driver License Information: who must be licensed, who cannot be, the exemptions for non-residents, and the age-free wording of the "Y" restriction
• ALEA — Road Test Study Guide: the eighteen scored items and the five reasons the drive ends early (linked PDF read in full)
• ALEA — Road Test Study Guide, the linked one-page PDF itself: this is where the eighteen scored items and the five automatic-fail reasons actually live, with the 18-inch curb distance, the fifty-foot backing and the 100-foot turn signal
• ALEA — Driver Licenses: Classes, Endorsements, and Restrictions — six classes, six endorsements and the twenty-four restriction codes
• ALEA — STAR ID: the May 7, 2025 federal enforcement date, ALEA-only original issuance, county renewals, and the "Not for Federal Identification" marking
• ALEA — Driver License Point System: the per-offense point values and the two-year suspension schedule
• ALEA — Driver Records, Crash Reports, and Driver License Reinstatements: the reinstatement fee table and the accepted forms of payment
• ALEA — Hardship Driver License: Rule 760-X-1-.24, the four eligibility routes, the seven permitted driving purposes and the exclusions
• Code of Alabama (Alabama Legislature) — Title 32, Chapter 6: § 32-6-1 expiration and renewal, § 32-6-3 the examination and its delegation to agency rule, § 32-6-4 who issues what, § 32-6-7.1 disability protections, § 32-6-21 the examination fee and the qualified-student waiver it points at in § 16-28-40, and § 32-5A-195 in Chapter 5A, which authorizes the point system

Checked against official state sources on August 21, 2026.