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Defensive Driving Class (Traffic Law)

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:46:00 GMT

Last year I got a speeding ticket. Since it was my first offense, the local police department told me I could take a defensive driving course and the issue would be revolved.  They instructed me on the process.  I rented the video and took the course and test and passed the course.  I misunderstood that the "school" would notifiy the local court. Last week, I realized the school notifies all states except Texas.  I have the certification of completion, so I took it to the local court, only to be told that since I was new to Texas last year and still had an out of state driver's license when I got the ticket, the court will not accept the DD certification. When I asked what law applied to the "out of state license issue", I was told two different stories by two different city court employees. One said it was a city "law", the other said it was a state law.  Is there a Texas law which penalizes someone with an out of state driver's license?

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