Florida Statute 322.23 - Full Text and Legal Analysis

The 2025 Florida Statutes

Title XXIII
MOTOR VEHICLES

Chapter 322
DRIVER LICENSES

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322.23 Suspending privileges of nonresidents and reporting convictions.—

(1) The privilege of driving a motor vehicle on the highways of this state, given to a nonresident, shall be subject to suspension or revocation by the department in the same manner and for the same cause as a license issued by the department may be suspended or revoked.

(2) The department is authorized, upon receiving a record of the conviction in this state of a nonresident driver, of any offense under the motor vehicle laws of this state, to forward a certified copy of such record to the motor vehicle administrator in the state wherein the person so convicted is a resident.

History.—s. 35, ch. 19551, 1939; CGL 1940 Supp. 4151(649); s. 35, ch. 20451, 1941.

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Cases Citing Statute 322.23

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Burgess v. State, 198 So. 3d 1151 (Fla. 2d DCA 2016).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal | 2016 Fla. App. LEXIS 13279, 2016 WL 4607547

conferring a privilege to drive. See, e.g., § 322.23(1) (1971 & 2012) (“The privilege of driving a

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Kirpalani v. Dept. of High. Saf., 997 So. 2d 502 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2008 WL 5352188

...DUI. § 316.1932(1)(a), Fla. Stat. (2007). A nonresident's privilege of driving a motor vehicle "shall be subject to suspension or revocation... in the same manner and for the same cause" as a Florida driver's license "may be suspended or revoked." § 322.23(1), Fla....

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John Eugene Williams, III v. State of Florida, 244 So. 3d 356 (Fla. 1st DCA 2018).

Cited 1 times | Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal

...driving privileges” for minors); § 322.263(2), Fla. Stat. (2016) (declaring the legislative intent to “[d]eny the privilege of operating motor vehicles” to persons who have demonstrated their indifference to the safety of others and their disrespect for the laws and orders); § 322.23(1), Fla....

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Kirpalani v. State Dept. of High. Saf. & Motor Vehs., 991 So. 2d 1026 (Fla. 4th DCA 2008).

Published | Florida 4th District Court of Appeal | 2008 Fla. App. LEXIS 15410, 2008 WL 4489430

...DUI. § 316.1932(1)(a), Fla. Stat. (2007). A nonresident's privilege of driving a motor vehicle "shall be subject to suspension or revocation ... in the same manner and for the same cause" as a Florida driver's license "may be suspended or revoked." § 322.23(1), Fla....

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Burgess v. State (Fla. 2d DCA 2016).

Published | Florida 2nd District Court of Appeal

...'s license and the legal ability to drive as conferred by an exemption from licensure. See §§ 322.03, .04. Indeed, chapter 322 itself refers to the exemption from licensure afforded to nonresidents as conferring a privilege to drive. See, e.g., § 322.23(1) (1971 & 2012) ("The privilege of driving a motor vehicle on the highways of this state, given to a nonresident, shall be subject to suspension or revocation ....

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Silha v. Dep't of High. Saf. & Motor Vehs., Div. of Driver Licenses of Florida, 109 So. 3d 820 (Fla. 1st DCA 2013).

Published | Florida 1st District Court of Appeal | 2013 WL 646052, 2013 Fla. App. LEXIS 2958

...urt applied the correct rule of law. Id. Appellant challenges only the trial court’s legal conclusion in this appeal. In determining that the Department was authorized to revoke Appellant’s driving privilege, the trial court properly relied upon section 322.23, Florida Statutes (1999), which is entitled “Suspending privileges of nonresidents and reporting convictions,” and which sets forth in subsection (1) that “[t]he privilege of driving a motor vehicle on the highways of this state,...

...Pursuant to these two statutes, the Department would have been entitled, had Appellant had a Florida license, to revoke that license based upon his fourth DUI which occurred in Georgia. It, therefore, follows that the Department was authorized under section 322.23(1) to revoke Appellant’s privilege to drive in Florida as a result of his fourth DUI conviction....

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