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An Act To Amend the Driver's License Laws
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
Sec. 1.  29-A MRSA §1251, sub-§1-B  is enacted to read:
 
1-B.  Residency requirement.   A license may not be issued to a nonresident. An applicant for a license must provide the residential address within the State where the applicant resides.
Sec. 2. 29-A MRSA §1410, sub-§1, as enacted by PL 1997, c. 437, §40, is amended to read:
 
1. Application. Any person who is a state resident or, a nonresident temporarily domiciled in the State with a mailing address inperson on active duty in the United States Armed Forces, the spouse and child of a nonresident person on active duty in the United States Armed Forces or a student enrolled in a university, college or school within the State may apply for an official state nondriver identification card. The application must be on a form provided by the Secretary of State and include any supporting documents and information the Secretary of State by rule requiresrequired to establish identity and residency.
 
A.  The application form must include, directly above the signature line, the following notice to the applicant: "I understand that knowingly supplying false information on this form is a Class D crime under Title 17-A, punishable by confinement of up to 364 days or by monetary fine of up to $2,000, or both."
 
SUMMARY
This bill restricts the issuance of driver's licenses and nondriver identification cards to residents of the State, except that nonresident students and persons on active military duty and the spouses and children of persons on active military duty may be issued nondriver identification cards.