• Septimaeus
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    6 months ago

    What is the breaker box in your analogy? Breaking legs?

    lol I meant a [circuit] breaker box (aka power/ac panel, breaker panel, distribution board, etc)

    So how do you suspend a license that the guy didn’t have?

    It’s just a minor legal misnomer. If a defendant happens to not have a driver’s license in the first place, suspension could be more accurately termed “prevention.” Logistically speaking, the state probably just generates a stub file/account with a valid license number then just adds the suspension to that empty driving record.

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      6 months ago

      Oh. Ok, I think I get it now… but it’s still weird.

      I’m not actually sure how that would work here… I do know that you can’t renew your license or plates without paying all overdue fines though.

    • skuzz@discuss.tchncs.de
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      6 months ago

      Since he already has a state ID, he already has an account. So they don’t even need to stub it.