Speeding

How can a state suspend your license if you don’t have one in that state?

Speeding ticket in Indiana in 1996, has had a Michigan license for years. Moved to Arkansas found out Indiana has suspended his license for non payment of fines. We called Indiana and asked what had to be paid and where to send it. We did as they said. Had to pay a reinstatement fee to Indiana to get Arkansas license. The day Indiana sent out the reinstatement notice, bam they sent notice of another ticket that needs be paid. Moved back to Michian and damn if Indiana didn’t suspend the non exist license in Indiana. How can they keep doing this? We had thought the matter was resolved. His Mom said she paid his fines back in 1996 when he went to jail for non payment, but has no proof. I wish Hackley bank was still around maybe get a copy of check she wrote to pay it.

The Nonresident Violator Compact allows states to suspend your license even if you don’t live in that particular state. This is a prime example of it. I don’t know about all of the run around you’re getting. However, it allows states to enforce its traffic laws on people from out of state. Otherwise out of staters could violate the traffic laws and just leave the state they were cited in and throw the ticket away. Or the state would be forced to arrest people from out of state on traffic violations. This way if an out of stater doesn’t pay a traffic ticket they just get their license revoked. They’ll have to pay it sooner or later or risk getting charged with driving while license revoked.