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The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXIII
MOTOR VEHICLES
Chapter 322
DRIVER LICENSES
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322.059 Mandatory surrender of suspended driver license and registration.A person whose driver license or registration has been suspended as provided in s. 322.058 must immediately return his or her driver license and registration to the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. The department shall invalidate the digital proof of driver license issued pursuant to s. 322.032 for such person. If such person fails to return his or her driver license or registration, a law enforcement agent may seize the license or registration while the driver license or registration is suspended.
History.s. 13, ch. 93-208; s. 399, ch. 95-148; s. 30, ch. 2014-216.

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Michael Crist v. State of Florida (Fla. 5th DCA 2025).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

...The driver license is issued only by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. See § 322.14(1)(a), Fla. Stat. And Florida law grants to the department the right to require the surrender of the driver license upon certain occurrences. See, e.g., § 322.059, Fla. Stat....
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Michael Crist v. State of Florida (Fla. 5th DCA 2025).

Published | Florida 5th District Court of Appeal

...(mandating what the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles must include on licenses); id. § 322.15(1) (requiring that driver licenses not be “faded, altered, mutilated, or defaced”); id. § 322.16 (authorizing the State to impose license restrictions); id. § 322.059 (requiring surrender of a driver license); id....
...hown on a Florida driver license is, in its entirety, spoken by the State.5 Thus, the regulate, seize, suspend, and revoke driver licenses, it follows that the physical license is government speech expressed on government property. See, e.g., id. §§ 322.059 (authorizing law enforcement to seize driver licenses where an individual fails to return it upon suspension), .22 (authorizing state agency to cancel or refuse to issue or renew a license in some cases; requiring licensee to surrender the license); cf....
...The driver license is issued only by the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. See § 322.14(1)(a), Fla. Stat. And Florida law grants to the department the right to require the surrender of the driver license upon certain occurrences. See, e.g., § 322.059, Fla. Stat....

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