1. Purpose. State motor vehicle operators' licenses and identification documents have an increasingly important role in our society. They serve not only to identify persons who have received permission to undertake a specific regulated activity, but also serve as identification in numerous public and private transactions. It is becoming vitally important to insure that state motor vehicle operators' licenses be issued in a form that clearly identifies them as official state documents, that they positively and easily identify the holder and that they are extremely difficult to counterfeit or alter. [PL 1981, c. 506, §1 (NEW).] 2. Form. An official state motor vehicle operator's license or identification card issued under this section shall be a one-piece document and shall: A. Clearly indicate its nature as an official state document; [PL 1981, c. 506, §1 (NEW).] B. Contain a photograph of the person to whom issued; [PL 1981, c. 506, §1 (NEW).] C. Be manufactured in a manner to prohibit, as nearly as possible, the ability to reproduce, alter or counterfeit the document without ready detection; [PL 1981, c. 506, §1 (NEW).] D. Contain other information required or appropriate for that license or identification card; and [PL 1981, c. 506, §1 (NEW).] E. Provide that any license issued to persons under 21 years of age shall be distinguished by a different color or other means to make the distinction easily observable. [PL 1985, c. 539, §1 (AMD).] [PL 1985, c. 539, §1 (AMD).]
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