302.321. Driving while license or driving privilege is cancelled, suspended or revoked, penalty — enhanced penalty for repeat offenders — imprisonment, mandatory, exception.
Makes it a crime to drive if your license is suspended or revoked
If your license is cancelled, suspended, or revoked and you knowingly drive anyway, you can be charged with a crime—and the punishment gets worse if you keep doing it.
1. You break this law if you drive a car on a highway while your license is cancelled, suspended, or revoked, and you acted with criminal negligence about knowing your license wasn’t valid.
2.
- A first offense is a class D misdemeanor.
- A second or third offense is a class A misdemeanor.
- If you have no prior alcohol-related contacts and this is your fourth or more offense in 10 years (including local ordinances), it’s a class E felony—if you had a lawyer or gave up that right, and served at least 10 days on earlier offenses.
- If you do have an alcohol-related enforcement contact, a third or more offense within 10 years (and served 10 days before), is also a class E felony.
- On felony convictions:
- The court must impose jail time—at least 48 straight hours, or
- Instead of jail, you may do 10 days with at least 40 hours of court-supervised community service, if allowed.
- It’s also a class E felony on:
- Your second or later conviction for DWI under §577.010, or
- Your fourth or later conviction for any other offense under this law.
- Prior guilty pleas or convictions must be handled and proven like in §558.021.
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