Driving While License Suspended

(a)No person shall drive a motor vehicle on a highway in Guam while knowing or having reason to know that his or her driver’s license is suspended. CH. 3 GENERAL PROVISIONS

(b)As used in this Section, “suspended driver’s license” means an operator’s license, chauffeur’s license, or driving privilege that has been suspended or revoked by judicial or administrative action, or seized by a police officer pursuant to law.

(c)In any prosecution for driving while license suspended, competent evidence that defendant’s license was surrendered to a police officer, or was suspended or revoked by order of a judge in open court, or that written notice of the suspension was mailed to defendant’s last known address by the Department of Revenue and Taxation shall be prima facie evidence of defendant’s knowledge of the suspension or revocation.

(d)Driving while license suspended is a misdemeanor, punishable by imprisonment for not more than one

(1)year, or by a fine of not more than One Thousand Dollars ($1,000.00), or both. In addition to any other penalty imposed upon a conviction, the sentencing court may order the defendant’s driver’s license to be suspended for an additional consecutive period of up to five

(5)years.