Surrendering a suspended license — Tennessee Permit Test

Surrendering a suspended license on the Tennessee permit test — 3 rules, each with the reason behind it and a question on it while it is fresh.

The rules

Whenever your driver license is suspended or revoked, you must turn it in to the Department of Safety within 20 days.

A suspended license still in your wallet tempts you to drive, and it can fool an officer. Turning it in ends that.

Whenever a driver license is suspended or revoked, it must be turned in to the Department of Safety within 20 days of the suspension or revocation.

Tennessee Comprehensive Driver License Manual, p.85

If you fail to surrender a suspended or revoked license, you will be fined $75 on top of any other fines and costs.

Keeping the card does not keep the right to drive. It only adds another fine to what you already owe.

Failure to surrender your license means that you will be fined $75 in addition to any other fines and costs you may owe.

Tennessee Comprehensive Driver License Manual, p.85

Before your license is suspended, revoked or canceled, the department gives you a chance for a hearing, except in cases of final judgments and convictions.

A hearing lets you show a mistake in your record before you lose the license, not after.

If your license is about to be suspended, revoked or cancelled, the department will give you an opportunity for a hearing prior to action, except in cases of final judgments and convictions.

Tennessee Comprehensive Driver License Manual, p.85

On the test

When your license is suspended or revoked, within how many days must you turn it in?

20 days. A suspended license still in your wallet tempts you to drive, and it can fool an officer. Turning it in ends that. Tennessee Comprehensive Driver License Manual, p.85: “Whenever a driver license is suspended or revoked, it must be turned in to the Department of Safety within 20 days of the suspension or revocation.”

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Where these come from

Every rule here is checked against Tennessee Comprehensive Driver License Manual, published by the Tennessee Department of Safety and Homeland Security, and against the state code itself. Last checked 2026-10-03.