Abuse and lose — Missouri Permit Test

If you are younger than 21, your license may be taken away for 90 days for any intoxication alcohol-related traffic offense.

The Abuse and Lose law reaches offenses that are not driving offenses at all.

If you are younger than 21 years of age, your driver license may be taken away for 90 days for any of the following:

An under-21 driver may lose their license for possessing or using alcohol or drugs while driving a vehicle.

Possession is enough. Nothing has to have been consumed for the license to go.

If you possess or use alcohol or drugs while driving a vehicle;

An under-21 driver may lose their license for altering, modifying, or misrepresenting a driver license.

A changed card is treated as an alcohol offense, because of what it is usually changed for.

If you alter, modify, or misrepresent a driver license; or

A driver 21 or older may lose their license for one year for possessing or using drugs while driving.

Over twenty-one the Abuse and Lose law narrows to drugs, and the penalty lengthens to a year.

If you are 21 years of age or older, you may have your driver license taken away for one year if you possess or use drugs while driving.

Getting your license back after an Abuse and Lose action requires a $45 fee, proof of a Substance Awareness Traffic Offender Program, two years of SR-22 insurance, and retaking the complete driver exam.

Four separate requirements, and the last one is the whole examination again.

Retake the complete driver exam.

Under Missouri's Abuse and Lose law, how long may an under-21 driver lose their license?

90 days. The Abuse and Lose law reaches offenses that are not driving offenses at all. Missouri Driver Guide, p.69: “If you are younger than 21 years of age, your driver license may be taken away for 90 days for any of the following:”