It may seem strange, but since 2014, representatives of the traffic police have not had the authority to withdraw the rights even from a person arrested for driving while intoxicated. In the past, divestment was a simple and short procedure.
Traffic police solution
For a few more months, representatives of the traffic police could pick up a driver's license for completely different violations. Now the situation has changed radically. Since the beginning of September 2013, provisions have come into force that regulate the rules for punishing drunk drivers and those motorists who do not follow traffic rules.
Until that moment, if a motorist committed significant violations of traffic rules on the road or simply drove in a "drunk" state, the rights were withdrawn on the spot, instead of them a temporary permit was issued, which served as a necessary document for the right to drive a power-driven vehicle. It could be used until the judicial provision on the complete deprivation of rights to drive a car came into force. Now you can forget about such things. If the driver was detained by the traffic police while drunk or violated other traffic rules on the road, the license is not withdrawn under any circumstances. The driver must hand them over to employees only within a few days from the entry into force of a special court decision concerning the case of seizure of documents.
The court's decision
At the moment, only an official court can decide in which department the seizure procedure should be drawn up. It can be located at the place of registration of the offender or in the unit whose employees wrote out a protocol on violation of traffic rules on the road, which entailed such sad consequences.
Interestingly, withdrawal of rights is carried out not only in the case of a common violation of traffic rules on the road. There are a huge number of situations that lead to this kind of sanctions. First of all, this is the validity period of documents, which should not exceed the prescribed 10 years, after which the rights become invalid and must be replaced.
The seizure may be due to the state of health of the driver threatening the safety of the movement of vehicles and other objects on the road. There is a certain list in which the main diagnoses are prescribed, prescribing the application of this kind of sanctions. However, impairment of health is a type of offense, punishment for which is carried out in the presence of an appropriate evidence base, such as a medical report, which confirms that the given driver cannot physically cope with driving a vehicle.
