§ 39-06-13 — Examination of applicants

North Dakota § 39-06-13

• Jurisdiction: North Dakota
• Title 39: Motor Vehicles
• Ch. 39-06: Operators' Licenses

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1. Unless otherwise provided in this chapter, the director shall examine every applicant
for an operator's license. The examination must include a test of the applicant's
eyesight; ability to read and understand highway signs regulating, warning, and
directing traffic; and knowledge of the traffic laws of this state. The director shall make
any written portion of the examination, except writing on illustrations of signs, available
to an applicant in any widely practiced language. The director may waive the written
portion of the examination for an applicant who has successfully passed a written
examination in another state and has an operator's license that is not or in the process
of being revoked, suspended, or canceled.
2. The director shall establish a process to administer the written portion of an
examination for an operator's license through an online electronic medium. The
director shall charge an applicant a fee of ten dollars to access the online written
examination. The online examination must:
a. Use personal questions about the applicant before the examination which the
applicant is required to answer during the examination, to strengthen test security
to deter fraud; and
b. Require the applicant's parent or legal guardian to certify to the department the
parent or legal guardian monitored the applicant during the online written
examination, before issuance by the department of a class D instruction permit to
an applicant who has passed the online examination.
3. The examination must include an actual demonstration of ability to exercise ordinary
and reasonable control in the operation of a motor vehicle unless waived for an
applicant who has successfully passed an actual ability test in this or another state
conducted by a state licensing authority or by a commercial driver training school
meeting the driver education requirements prescribed by the director under chapter
39-25. A minor may operate a motor vehicle no matter how owned for the actual ability
test.
4. In lieu of an eyesight test, the applicant may provide a statement of examination from
a licensed physician or an optometrist stating the corrected and uncorrected vision of
the applicant, if the examination was within six months of the application.
5. The director may require any other physical or mental examination.