Qualification for driver's license
Compiled text through Jul 15, 2022
Register checked through Jul 29, 2026
No later Register activity identified in this check.
Dates and status
- Compiling agency
- Executive Department
- Text status
- Source receipt
- Compiled text through
- Jul 15, 2022
- Register checked through
- July 29, 2026/Vol. XLVIII, Issue 30 (2026-07-29)
- Activity status
- No later Register activity identified in this check.
- Source snapshot
- Jun 6, 2026
(a)Every applicant for a driver's license shall satisfy the commission, in such manner as the commission may prescribe, that such applicant:
(1)has had at least one year's training experience and has demonstrated the ability to drive;
(2)is knowledgeable of and conversant in the training and driving of harness horses;
(3)is physically and mentally competent to drive;
(4)is familiar with the rules of racing;
(5)has a minimum of 20/40 vision in one eye, corrected, according to certification by a licensed optometrist, oculist or ophthalmologist.
(b)No person shall be permitted to drive at a race meeting licensed by the commission without a New York State license. The track steward or presiding judge at any race meeting may refuse to permit any licensed driver to compete in a race if, in the judgment of such official, such driver is unfit, unqualified, or too inexperienced to drive. Such official may require the driver to submit to a physical examination under conditions specified by the official.