IDP/DDP

The Dumb Driver Program

Our program is licensed past the New York Land Department of Motor Vehicles and fulfills both DMV and court mandated training requirements. Classes are held Evenings every Weekday and Saturday mornings at our Brooklyn , Staten Island & Queens Locations

To enroll you must first register at the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV Code # 8500).

Visit the Contact Us page for details or call

1-888-482-0055 for more information.

IDP Data - (718) 984-1984

The Following Information is taken from The NYS DMV Website Hither.

What happens if I am convicted of an booze or drug-related violation in New York Land?

If you lot are convicted of an alcohol or drug-related driving violation, your license or privilege to drive in New York State will be revoked or suspended. However, you may be eligible for a conditional license or a conditional driving privilege if yous participate in New York State'southward Impaired Driver Program (IDP) (previously known equally Drinking Driving Program (DDP) or an approved out-of-land programme.

Your "Gild of Suspension or Revocation" from the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) volition indicate a nearby state or canton motor vehicle office where you lot may enroll in the Impaired Commuter Program and apply for a conditional license/privilege, if applicable.

Your license intermission or revocation officially begins at your hearing or sentencing in courtroom, unless the court gives you a "Continuation of Driving Privileges" (MV-1192). Your credit for serving the interruption or revocation begins on the effective date of the order. If you lot receive a "continuation," your suspension or revocation will begin twenty days subsequently sentencing

Information technology is a criminal crime to drive a motor vehicle while your license is suspended or revoked. If you lot are bedevilled of driving under suspension or revocation, you may be fined and y'all may be sentenced to jail and/or probation. In addition, the police may impound the vehicle you lot were driving when arrested.

If yous are placed on probation because of this confidence, you also must bring written permission from the sentencing court, or your probation officeholder, that allows yous to apply for a license.

Driver Responsibility Assessments

If you are convicted of Driving While Intoxicated (DWI), Driving While Ability Impaired (DWAI) or Driving While Ability Impaired by Drugs, or if y'all are institute to have refused to submit to a chemical test, you will be required to pay a driver responsibility assessment each year for the next iii years. For more than data, see Pay driver responsibleness assessment.

Participation in the Dumb Driver Program (IDP) will not forbid, reduce, or delay fines, fees, or penalties imposed under the driver responsibleness assessment program.

Before you determine not to participate in the Drinking Driver Program,

Please read " If You Exercise Not Participate. "

The Dumb Driver Program (IDP) (previously known as Drinking Driving Program (DDP)) is office of New York State'southward try to lessen the incidence of injury, inability, and fatality that results from alcohol and other drug related motor vehicle crashes, thereby reducing the risk of re-law-breaking for an dumb driving offense.

Participants in the IDP will receive an in-depth didactics regarding high-risk alcohol and other drug choices to assist them in identifying and changing loftier-risk behaviors. Multimedia presentations and guided give-and-take increase participants' motivation to change behavior to protect what they value nearly in life. Individual and grouping activities are completed using participant workbooks. Participants also consummate a preliminary screening designed to identify hazard factors for a substance abuse disorder. Individuals plant to be at adventure for a substance abuse disorder will be referred for a comprehensive clinical assessment and referral to handling if warranted.

If you are licensed in another country or a province of Canada, see Out-of-Country Options for IDP Entry.

As an IDP participant, you must attend all vii weekly classroom sessions. Each session takes 2 to 3 hours for xvi hours total. When y'all satisfactorily complete the classroom sessions, your involvement in the IDP will end, UNLESS the program refers you for formal assessment and any resulting treatment.

IDP participants may be referred for a formal substance abuse assessment by a NY State court, the Department of Probation or the IDP. IDP referrals tin can event from

  • the results of a written cocky-inventory

  • 2 or more alcohol or drug-related driving convictions within ten years

  • an abort for an alcohol or drug-related driving violation while enrolled in the IDP

  • attending form under the influence of alcohol or drugs or reasonable suspicion thereof

  • a written request by the participant for help with a substance abuse problem

If you lot are referred for assessment by an IDP, you must cull a provider approved past the Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS). You can observe a list of approved providers at the OASAS website. If you lot are not satisfied with the results of the assessment, you may ask the IDP grade provider for a second assessment. However, you must accept the findings of the second assessment.

After assessment, yous may exist required to consummate a formal substance abuse treatment program. If yous fail to complete required assessment or treatment, you will be dropped from the IDP and your conditional license will exist revoked.

In some instances you may be referred for assessment by a NY Country courtroom or probation part prior to enrolling in the IDP. If the assessment results in a determination that treatment is required, you must consummate the handling before the IDP will provide a completion certificate. It is important to understand that regardless of the referral source (IDP, NY State court or a probation office), if the cess determines that handling is required, you must complete the treatment in social club to consummate the IDP.

The IDP volition provide you lot with a "Notice of Completion" when all program requirements have been met. This data will also be electronically transmitted to DMV. Depending on your license condition and driving record, your license may be restored or you may become eligible to use for a new license. Your eligibility will be affected if

  • yous have two or more alcohol/drug related driving violations on your driving record

  • your conditional license is under revocation

  • you were under 21 when the alcohol or drug-related driving violation occurred

  • y'all refused an alcohol or drug test on the date of the violation

  • you committed the booze or drug-related violation while operating a commercial motor vehicle

DROPS, RE-SENTENCING, RE-ENTRY

You will be dropped from the IDP and lose your conditional license if you

  • practice not attend class, any required assessment or treatment, or

  • exercise not otherwise satisfactorily participate in the program, or

  • exercise not pay the programme fees

If you are dropped from the IDP, you must obtain consent from the IDP managing director before re-inbound. A re-entry fee of $l is required, payable to the IDP. Drops reported to the DMV will effect in the revocation of your conditional license/driving privilege. Participants tin only be re-issued a conditional license one fourth dimension.

If you are dropped from the IDP for more than than 90 days and want to re-enter to obtain a provisional license and consummate the grade, y'all must beginning the unabridged 7 calendar week grade over and pay the class fees once more.

At the time of sentencing, the court may issue you lot a conditional discharge (CD) that requires IDP completion. The DMV volition notify the court if you lot do non enroll in the program, or are dropped from it. The court then may phone call yous in for re-sentencing.

When you enroll in the Drinking Driver Plan, you must pay the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) a not-refundable fee of $75. Other fees besides may be required in certain cases. Checks or money orders must be made payable to the "Commissioner of Motor Vehicles."

After enrollment, you also must pay a fee directly to the agency that volition comport your IDP classes. The maximum IDP enrollment fee is $235, payable to the program you attend. Motor vehicle staff will tell you the exact fee and who to pay. Payment is expected when yous attend the get-go form. There volition be additional fees if you lot transfer to another IDP or apply to re-enter a program you lot take been dropped from.

During the IDP course, you lot may be referred to a DMV recognized wellness care provider for formal evaluation and, if necessary, any resulting treatment. If formal evaluation or treatment is needed, yous volition accept to pay additional fees to the agency that provides those services.

NOTE: The limitations for using a conditional license, and the reasons for its revocation, also apply to conditional driving privileges issued to participants licensed in other states.

Where and When y'all may drive

A conditional license is non valid for driving a taxicab or any motor vehicle that requires the driver to have a Commercial Driver License (CDL).

If you receive a conditional license, it is valid to bulldoze only:

  • to and from piece of work, and during work if driving is office of your job.

  • to and from a class at an accredited school or college.

  • to transport your child to and from a child intendance facility or school when necessary to maintain your employment.

  • to and from DDP classes and whatever required evaluation or handling.

  • to and from a state or county motor vehicle office for business related to your provisional license

  • to and from courtroom-ordered probation activities.

  • to and from medical examinations or treatment for you or a member of your family unit, as certified in writing by a physician .

  • during the iii-hour weekly period listed on your provisional license zipper.

If your job or school changes location, you must immediately notify the DMV. To practice this, complete a "Provisional License-Privilege Zipper" (MV-2020, bachelor at nearly motor vehicle offices), and submit information technology to a land or county motor vehicle role.

Conditional License Revocation

Your conditional license will be revoked if yous are convicted of violating whatsoever condition listed in "Where And When You lot May Drive" or of whatsoever moving violation, including those concerning cell phones, seat belts, or kid safe seats or systems. After the conditional license is revoked, you may continue to attend the Drinking Driver Program, simply you lot must not drive under any circumstances. If you are over 21 years one-time and complete the program without additional convictions, your full license will be restored at the end of the programme. If you are under 21 and your conditional license is revoked, you must serve a one-year revocation even if you complete the DDP.

Your conditional license also will exist revoked if you are convicted or found guilty of whatsoever additional alcohol or drug-related violation, or whatever other violation or incident that usually results in license revocation. If your conditional license is revoked yous may continue to participate in the DDP without driving, merely you will not exist re-licensed immediately after you lot complete the programme. The DMV will consider your re-licensing but after you have completed the DDP and have served any required revocation menstruum. You must turn in the revoked conditional license to a state or county motor vehicle part to receive credit toward the revocation period.

If you are dropped from the Drinking Driver Program, your conditional license volition exist revoked. If this occurs, your original license suspension or revocation volition be reinstated for its full length.

Yous must turn in your conditional license immediately upon receiving a revocation social club. If y'all expect, your render to full license condition may exist delayed.

You may be eligible for full non-CDL (non-commercial driver license) driving privileges after you lot complete the IDP, all recommended formal evaluations, and whatever resulting treatments. Your CDL (Commercial Commuter License) or commercial driving privileges will remain suspended or revoked until the end of the original interruption or revocation. After the terminate of the CDL break or revocation, yous must go to a motor vehicle office to use for restoration of your CDL or commercial driving privileges.

If your original license had been suspended, yous must accept these steps:

  • Complete the IDP;

  • Go to any state or county motor vehicle office to have your license restored;

  • Pay a $25 suspension termination fee. For a suspension that has an effective date on or after July 6, 2009, the termination fee is $l.

  • If your license had been suspended following a violation of the "Zero Tolerance Police," you must pay a $100 pause termination fee and a $125 civil penalty; and pay whatever required license fees, such every bit for license renewal.

If your original license had been revoked, you lot must:

  • Consummate the IDP;

  • Bring your IDP "Notice of Completion" (MV-2026) and conditional license to the state or county motor vehicle function that issued the license;

  • Meet all DMV requirements and criteria for re-licensing; and, pay any required license fees such as for license renewal, or for any required skills tests for Commercial Driver Licenses.

Note: Re-licensing after revocation is not automatic. DMV must review your application.

OUT-OF-State IDP PARTICIPATION

DDP Participation

Out of State Issues - IDP Entry

Most IDP participants are New York State licensed drivers convicted of alcohol or drug-related driving offenses that occurred in New York State. To participate in the IDP, those drivers should follow the instructions previously described in this publication.

The state of affairs of other drivers may fit the "out-of-state" Circumstances described in "Out-of-State - IDP Participation." Proof of alcohol or drug-related conviction is required. For more data, contact the DMV Driver Comeback Adjudication Unit (DIAU).

If you practise not participate

If you are eligible to participate in the Impaired Driving Programme and you choose not to participate, you lot volition not exist eligible once again for the program or a conditional license for the next v years. Under some plea-bargain agreements, the court may order y'all to participate even if you lot already had attended the IDP inside the previous 5 years. Still, you will not exist eligible for a conditional license.

Note the effective date on your "Society of Suspension or Revocation" (MV-110.1L). Unless yous already have turned in your license to the courtroom, you must turn it in to a DMV function or a county motor vehicle agency by this engagement.

If you do not participate in the IDP, your license suspension or revocation officially begins at your hearing or sentencing in court, unless the court gives you lot a "Continuation of Driving Privileges" (MV-ll92). Your credit for serving the break or revocation begins on the constructive date of the gild. If you receive a "Continuation," your suspension or revocation will brainstorm 20 days later on sentencing. You must and so turn in your license at a motor vehicle office, unless information technology has already been taken by the court. If your license is missing, contact a state or canton motor vehicle function for guidance almost what to practise.

It is a criminal law-breaking to drive a motor vehicle while your license is suspended or revoked. If yous are bedevilled of driving under suspension or revocation, you will exist fined at to the lowest degree $500, and you lot will exist sentenced to jail or probation. In improver, the police will impound the vehicle you were driving when arrested.

Re-Licensing for Non-Participants

New York State Licensed Drivers: If your driver license is suspended, it will be restored afterwards the end of the suspension flow and payment of the suspension termination fee. You may pay the fee at, or post information technology to, any state or county motor vehicle office. You may likewise mail it to the DMV Driver Comeback Adjudication Unit (DIAU).

If your driver license is revoked, you must apply directly to the DIAU for a new license, and pay a non-refundable re-awarding fee of $100 and any other license fees. If the constructive date of the revocation was before July 6, 2009 , the re-application fees is $l. Your application cannot exist canonical earlier the minimum revocation period is served, only the DMV will accept it for review up to 45 days earlier the revocation ends. If you lot are placed on probation, you must nowadays written permission (besides chosen, "probation clearance") from the sentencing court or your probation officeholder.

If your CDL and non-CDL driving privileges are both revoked, you may apply to the DIAU at the cease of the non-CDL sanction for restoration of your full not-CDL privileges. Then, at the cease of the CDL revocation, you lot may apply at any motor vehicle office for the restoration of your CDL privileges.

If your driving record contains ii or more alcohol or drug-related incidents in ten years, the DMV requires written testify, before your application volition be considered, that substance corruption treatment is not required or has been successfully completed. See "Information Virtually Evaluation and Treatment Providers".

If your license is revoked for a 2d "Zero Tolerance Law" violation (driving after consuming alcohol, under historic period 21), the reapplication fee is $100, and you must pay a $125 civil punishment. Y'all must too pay a civil penalty fee of $300 ($750, second offense) if you had refused to submit to a chemical examination at the time of arrest.

You lot must submit a completed "Application for Driver License" (MV-44), available from the DMV Internet Office, a DMV Call Eye, or whatever motor vehicle office. Payment must exist by cheque or money society just, payable to the "Commissioner of Motor Vehicles." Postal service your application and payment to:

Driver Improvement Adjudication Unit

Department of Motor Vehicles

6 Empire State Plaza

Albany, NY 12228

Phone: 1-518-474-0774

The DMV volition review your driving tape and notify you lot by mail whether your awarding is approved or denied. If approved, you must bring information technology to a land or county motor vehicle office for processing. You may exist required to pass qualifying tests. After your license is issued, you must serve a six-month probationary period.

For Drivers Licensed Outside New York State:

After you complete your menstruation of pause or revocation, y'all may request the restoration of your New York State driving privilege. Send a letter requesting restoration to the DMV Driver Improvement Adjudication Unit (DIAU). Your letter should include your full name and date of nascence. Besides enclose a check or money lodge of $25 for the restoration fee, payable to the "Commissioner of Motor Vehicles." You must not resume driving in New York Land until the DMV notifies y'all, in writing, that your driving privilege has been restored.

Driver Responsibility Assessments

In add-on to paying any fines, fees, penalties and surcharges authorized past law, yous must pay a "Commuter Responsibility Assessment" for certain violations that result in a conviction or authoritative finding. Your learner allow, driver license, or driving privileges will be suspended if you do not brand these payments.

If you are convicted of Driving While Intoxicated (DWI), Driving While Ability Impaired (DWAI) or Driving While Ability Dumb by Drugs, or if you are found to have refused to submit to a chemical test, you will exist required to pay a commuter responsibility cess of $250 each twelvemonth for the side by side three years.

Participation in the Impaired Commuter Program (IDP) volition not forestall, reduce, or filibuster whatever fines, fees, or penalties imposed under the driver responsibleness assessment program. The most recent information about the "Driver Responsibility Assessment" program is bachelor from the DMV Internet Role.

Information virtually Evaluation and Treatment Providers

A driving tape with two or more alcohol or drug-related incidents occurring inside a ten-year period establishes a history of alcohol or drug abuse as divers in Part 136.1(b)(iii) of the Regulations of the Commissioner of Motor Vehicles.

If your license, learner permit, or privilege to bulldoze in New York Land has been revoked and your driving record contains a history of such alcohol or drug abuse, at the end of your revocation period, an application for a new driver license, learner permit or clearance of your NYS driving privileges cannot exist approved until yous show proof that you have completed booze or drug rehabilitation. Acceptable proof of alcohol or drug rehabilitation must be submitted on DMV class DS-449 "Alcohol and Drug Corruption Rehabilitation Programme Summary"; and, include show that you lot have had an alcohol or drug evaluation within one year from the date you reapply, and that: 1) treatment was not recommended; or 2) that you lot have successfully completed all stages of an alcohol or drug treatment programme, and that no further treatment is necessary.

The alphabetic character or Order of Suspension or Revocation yous received from DMV regarding your alcohol/drug confidence provides information most your eligibility to participate in the New York State Impaired Driving Program (IDP). Successful completion of the IDP may satisfy the rehabilitation requirement described above. However, if you choose not to participate in IDP, or if you are not eligible to participate in IDP, you can observe acceptable evaluation and treatment providers within and exterior of NYS by accessing the NY Land Office of Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Services (OASAS) website at DWI Screening and Assessment Information.

If you cull an booze or drug evaluation/treatment provider, the provider must appear on the listing. A provider will not be accepted unless they accept been canonical by OASAS. To get on this approval list the provider must contact OASAS at 1-800-482-9564 for instructions.

If the provider is found on this site, and does non have the DMV form DS-449 "Booze and Drug Abuse Rehabilitation Plan Summary", they may contact Driver Comeback Agency, Receiving and Command Unit, Room 220, 6 Empire Land Plaza, Albany, NY 12228, fax: ane-518-402-2991, to obtain this form.

Any Federal Department of the Interior or Section of the Secretarial assistant program, conducted on armed forces bases would exist deemed acceptable.

If yous practice not have access to the Internet and would similar a copy of the acceptable providers mailed to you, please call 1-800-482-9564.

Bear witness OF COMPLETING REHABILITATION FROM PROVIDERS WHO ARE Not ON THE WEBSITE OR PROVIDER List WILL Be Accustomed OR REJECTED By THIS DEPARTMENT Later A REVIEW OF THE PROVIDER'South QUALIFICATIONS BY OASAS.

Delight accept this notice to the agency conducting your evaluation.

NOTE: Participation in Only a Detoxification Program or in an Alcoholics Anonymous or Narcotics Anonymous Program volition NOT exist accepted every bit evidence of rehabilitation.