Reader’s Question:

I recently received a DUI in Yonkers, New York . I will be charge with DUI. Is it true that the DUI will remain on my record for seven years? My lawyer however told me that in New York, it will remain on my record forever. Which is true?

Brad

Yonkers, NY

The New York State Department of Motor Vehicles sates that accidents, convictions for traffic violations, and the revocations or the suspensions of your driver license stay on your driver record for a different amount of time.

According to the New York State DMV a conviction that is alcohol-related or drug-related specifically stays on a driver record for exactly ten years. If a motorist is convicted of the same violation during that ten years, the motorist can receive additional penalties.

There are other violations and accidents of a serious type that can stay on a driver record for more than ten years. Also a New York revocation or suspension of a driver license that was not cleared or not terminated stays on a driver record indefinitely.

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