Connecticut Drivers Education
Connecticut teens who are interested in obtaining a drivers license must first obtain a learner’s permit and follow specific requirements that have been enacted in Connecticut. You must have had your sixteenth birthday prior to applying for a Learners Permit and pass a vision test as well as a ten question written test in order to obtain your permit.
Documentation that is required by the Department of Motor vehicles includes verification of address (no post office boxes), a certified birth certificate, a valid passport plus one additional form of identification. The
secondary documents list is extensive so it would be helpful for you to review that document and determine what items you have available. You are also required to have your social security card or a letter from the Social Security Administration that states you are not eligible to receive one. You must also complete an application for a
Learner’s Permit (Form B307).
There are several restrictions that apply to those who hold a learners permit. These restrictions include:
- Passengers will be limited to a parent or guardian, or a driving instructor who is licensed by the Department of Motor Vehicles or a person who has had their license for more than four years over the age of twenty who has not had their license suspended will be allowed to travel with the minor during the first three months.
- During the second three months the restrictions listed above apply, however additional immediate family members may also be in the vehicle.
- Until age eighteen, every occupant of the vehicle must have an available seat belt.
- You may not drive a bus, taxi or other vehicle which requires a passenger transport permit including a carpool van.
- You may not drive between midnight and five in the morning unless it is for school, work, religious activities or medical necessity unless you are an assigned driver in a Safe Ride program.
- Electronic devices may not be used by a driver prior to their eighteenth birthday even if they are hands free.
Failure to follow the passenger rules pertaining to learner’s permits may result in a permit revocation of the learner’s permit.
After you have held your learner’s permit for a period of not less than one hundred and eighty days, you may then apply for a driver’s license. In order to qualify for a license you will need the following additional documentation:
A) Proof that you have attended driver training through a home training course, completed by Applicants who are trained at home by a parent, a foster parent or legal guardian, a grandparent, a spouse of a married minor applicant.
Note: Instructor must be at least 20 years of age or older and have held a license for four or more years prior to training. This training must include at least twenty two hours of course study as well as twenty hours behind the wheel.
Home-trained applicants must also show evidence of completing an eight hour course that includes a minimum of four hours on:
- the nature and the medical, biological and physiological effects of alcohol and drugs and their impact safe operation of a motor vehicle.
- the dangers associated with the operation of a motor vehicle after the consumption of alcohol or drugs and associated motor vehicle violations.
- Your learner’s permit showing that it is at least one hundred and eighty days old, or one hundred and twenty days if you completed a driver training school by other methods than home training.
- A recent photograph of you not wearing a hood, hat or dark glasses (you will not get this photo back).
- Verification of your residential address (not a post office box).
- Certified birth certificate, passport and one additional form of identification as previously identified.
- A properly registered and insured vehicle that I appropriate for you to take your driving test as well as the registration and insurance certificates.
- And the fees that are due to the Registry of Motor Vehicles in cash, money order, bank check or personal check payable to the DMV and not drawn on a foreign bank.
