Hand in your driver's license
Source: BUS Rheinland-PfalzIf you have been issued with a fine notice, a driving ban may have been imposed by the fining authority as a secondary consequence. This may mean that you have to surrender your driver's license to the office of the fining authority or have it handed back to you under the conditions specified in the fine notice.
Please contact the fines office. In exceptional cases, you can also contact the police.
Driving ban (without relevant previous entries in the driving aptitude register -FAER-)
If you have been banned from driving for the first time in the fine notice, you can decide for yourself within four months when to return your driving license to your authority for official safekeeping. The driving ban takes effect no later than four months after it becomes legally binding (14 days after notification of the fine notice). You are liable to prosecution (driving without a license) if you still drive a motor vehicle.
Driving ban (with relevant previous entries in the driving aptitude register -FAER-)
If a driving ban has been enforced against you in the past two years, the new driving ban will take effect from the date on which it becomes legally binding (14 days after notification of the decision). This means that your driving license must be surrendered by this time at the latest and you may no longer drive a motor vehicle under any circumstances.
When handing in your driver's license
- Driver's license
- File number or the fine notice
Driver's license return
- Letter of request to
- Power of attorney if a third party is to collect your driver's license for you
Proof of identity
- identity card
- Passport,
- Passport replacement documents for foreign nationals
Lost driving license
- a notice of loss must be submitted. Proof of this must be presented on collection.
Free of charge
A driving license is withdrawn on the basis of a criminal law decision. A driving ban may be offset against this.
10.01.2020
The nearest responsible office to you:
Verkehrsüberwachungsamt
The tasks of the Traffic Monitoring Office, which was founded in 1987, cover the major topic of "motor vehicles" in all organizational areas.
This involves not only the often controversial operations, e.g. against parking offences, but also, since the incorporation of the traffic department, formerly part of the public order office, in 2004, all matters relating to vehicle operation (from registration and re-registration to immobilization) as well as, for example, driver's licenses, cab licences, bus permits, driving school and driving instructor permits.
The three departments of Office 31 are divided into
- Traffic monitoring/field service department,
- Department for fines/towing matters,
- Traffic department with driving license authority and vehicle registration authority
Address
55118 Mainz
Remark:
Bonifazius Tower A
Postal address
55028 Mainz
Contact
Telephone
Fax
Opening hours
Monday 9 am to 12 noon, 2 pm to 3.30 pm
Tuesday 9 am to 12 noon, 2 pm to 3.30 pm
Wednesday 9 am to 12 noon, 2 pm to 3.30 pm
Thursday 9 am to 12 noon, 2 pm to 3.30 pm
Friday 9 am to 1 pm
Please note the different opening hours of the Driver's License Office and the Vehicle Registration Office.
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Verkehrsabteilung
Address
55129 Mainz
Building access
Remark:
Barrier-free access available. Wheelchair-accessible WC available.
Postal address
55028 Mainz
Building access
Remark:
Barrier-free access available. Wheelchair-accessible WC available.
Contact
Telephone
Fax
Fahrerlaubnisbehörde (Führerscheinstelle)
Address
55129 Mainz
Building access
Remark:
Barrier-free access available. Wheelchair-accessible WC available.
Postal address
55028 Mainz
Building access
Remark:
Barrier-free access available. Wheelchair-accessible WC available.