Since November 2017, persons with expired driver’s licenses are required to pay not only the cost of renewal, but also a fine that is the cost of renewal multiplied by the number of years the document has been out of date.
Each day, the Driver’s License Office at the National Institute of Terrestrial Transit and Transport (Intrant) receives and services dozens of drivers who have failed to renew their licences. The Intrant says they have seen many cases of people having to pay fines of RD$10,000 and RD$15,000 to renew their license as it has been between 10 and 15 years since they last renewed.
The normal cost of renewal is RD$890. Those letting their licenses expire for three years in addition to the penalty have to sit for an hour long educational talk that adds an additional RD$550 to the renewal cost.
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Listin Diario
15 January 2019
