Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 96 Part 2.djvu/379

 PUBLIC LAW 97-364—OCT. 25, 1982

96 STAT. 1741

(2) "chief driver licensing official" means the official in each State who is authorized to (A) maintain any record regarding any motor vehicle operator's license issued by such State; and (B) grant, deny, revoke, suspend, or cancel any motor vehicle operator's license issued by such State; (3) "controlled substance" has the meaning given such term in section 102(6) of the Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970 (21 U.S.C. 802(6)); (4) "highway" means any road or street; (5) "motor vehicle" means any vehicle, machine, tractor, trailer, or semitrailer propelled or drawn by mechanical power and used on a highway, except that such term does not include any vehicle, machine, tractor, trailer, or semitrailer operated exclusively on a rail or rails; (6) "motor vehicle operator's license" means any license issued by a State which authorizes an individual to operate a motor vehicle on a highway; (7) "participating State" means any State which has notified the Secretary of its participation in the Register system, pursuant to section 204 of this title; (8) "Register" and "Register system" mean the National Driver Register established under section 203 of this title; (9) "Secretary" means the Secretary of Transportation; (10) "State" means each of the several States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands, and any other territory or possession of the United States; and (11) "State of record" means any State which has transmitted to the Secretary, pursuant to section 205 of this title, any report regarding any individual who is the subject of a request for information made under section 206 of this title. ESTABLISHMENT OF REGISTER

SEC. 203. (a) The Secretary shall, as soon as practicable after the 23 USC 40i note. date of enactment of this title, establish and thereafter maintain a Register, to be known as the National Driver Register, to assist chief driver licensing officials of participating States in exchanging information regarding the motor vehicle driving records of individuals. The Register shall contain an index of the information that is information reported to the Secretary under section 205 of this title, and shall be index. designed to enable the Secretary, either electronically or, until such time as all States are capable of participating electronically, through the United States mails, to— (1) receive information submitted under section 205(a) of this title by the chief driver licensing official of any State of record; (2) receive any request for information made by the chief driver licensing official of any participating State under section 206 of this title; (3) refer such request to the chief driver licensing official of any State of record; and (4) relay without interception of the actual information to the chief driver licensing official of a participating State any information provided by any chief driver licensing official of a State of record in response to such request.

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