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2000 LAWS OF MARYLAND
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Ch. 482
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CHAPTER 482
(House Bill 1406)
AN ACT concerning
Vehicle Laws - Driver's License Restrictions - Vision Correction
FOR the purpose of authorizing an individual with a driver's license containing a
vision related restriction, and who has had a vision correction surgery enabling
the individual to qualify for an unrestricted license, to apply to the Motor
Vehicle Administration for a correction card corrected license attachment
indicating the removal of the restriction; requiring an individual applying for a
certain correction card license attachment to submit to the Administration a
report of examination by or to carry, for a certain period, a written certification
from a licensed ophthalmologist or optometrist that the individual meets certain
vision requirements; and generally relating to vision correction and driver's
license restrictions.
BY repealing and reenacting, with amendments,
Article - Transportation
Section 16-110.1
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1999 Replacement Volume and 1999 Supplement)
SECTION 1. BE IT ENACTED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF
MARYLAND, That the Laws of Maryland read as follows:
Article - Transportation
16-110.1.
(a) For an unrestricted license, each applicant is required to have:
(1) Simultaneously:
(i) A minimum visual acuity of 20/40 in each eye; and
(ii) A continuous field of vision of at least 140 degrees; and
(2) Binocular vision.
(b) If the applicant's vision can be corrected by glasses or contact lenses to
meet the standards of this section, the Administration may issue the applicant a
restricted license, endorsed "corrective lenses".
(c) (1) The Administration may issue a restricted license to an applicant
who has simultaneously:
(i) A visual acuity of at least 20/40 in one or both eyes; and
(ii) A continuous field of vision of at least 110 degrees and with at
least 35 degrees lateral to the midline of each side.
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