Defensive Driving Program Guidelines

The defensive driving training and certification shall be offered in a traditional classroom setting and virtual/online learning. A student verification mechanism shall be used throughout the program if online training is elected. Classroom instruction must be offered, but either a classroom or virtual/online program satisfies the training and certification requirement. The defensive driving program shall be a minimum of four hundred

(400)minutes, and a final test shall be administered and passed for a student to get certification. The defensive driving program must have an on-island administrator who has a minimum of two

(2)years experience in the administration of a nationally- recognized defensive driving program that is certified to train by any authorizing recognized organization that meets the criteria provided herein. And further provided, that the defensive driving program has a demonstrated performance record of reducing reckless driving directly attributable to the program, within any of the states, counties, municipalities, cities, and/or in providing like services for federal agency programs.

(a)Defensive driving schools and programs shall be regulated by the Motor Vehicle Division, Guam Department of Revenue and Taxation;

(b)Defensive driving schools and programs established on Guam shall meet the standards to become certified and COL9192018 CH. 9 PENALTIES licensed by the Guam Department of Revenue and Taxation, Motor Vehicle Division;

(c)Defensive driving programs shall be completed in no less than four hundred

(400)minutes;

(d)The organizations authorized to provide this training shall retain student records for at least five

(5)years. For purposes of clarification, defensive driving training is not drivers education, as defined by § 3103 of Chapter 3, Title 16, Guam Code Annotated; and

(e)Defensive driving programs on Guam shall cover such areas as Guam specific needs and general defensive driving training in traffic law, methods of accident avoidance and force reduction, human limitations, the effects of alcohol and drugs on the driver and driving, the serious dangers of driving distractions, and a translation of traffic violations into their resultant damages, including property, injury, death, and societal impact.