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DUI law in Alaska
The criminal charge and your driving privileges are separate questions. Check both.
DUI law in Alaska concerns both the criminal charge and the right to drive. The applicable licence process depends on the alleged conduct, test result or refusal, and the notice or court order. A criminal court date is not a substitute for checking a separate licence deadline. The cited rules below identify what has been verified for this jurisdiction.
The two legal questions
The criminal charge and driving privileges can involve different proceedings. The notice, order and cited rule identify the applicable process.
Driving privileges
The licence case
- Forum
- The agency or court identified by the applicable licence proceeding
- Clock
- Check the applicable notice or order for the deadline and its starting event
- Deadline to request a hearing
- Within seven days after receipt of the revocation notice under AS 28.15.165.
- The ordinary seven-day period runs from receipt of the notice, not the arrest date or a criminal court date.
- A late written request must include a verified statement explaining the delay. The department must reopen the matter if it finds the person could not apply in time because of lack of actual notice or physical incapacity, such as hospitalization or incarceration.
- An initial request for limited-license privileges is different and may be made at any time; later requests require a significant change in circumstances.
- A request alone is not permission to drive. Temporary permits are governed by subsection (c); an appeal from a final hearing determination is a separate process.
- Suspension under the cited rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Hearing procedure under the cited rule
- Make a written request to the department for administrative review. If the driver's license has not already been surrendered, surrender it when requesting review.
- The ordinary seven-day period runs from receipt of the notice, not the arrest date or a criminal court date.
- A late written request must include a verified statement explaining the delay. The department must reopen the matter if it finds the person could not apply in time because of lack of actual notice or physical incapacity, such as hospitalization or incarceration.
- An initial request for limited-license privileges is different and may be made at any time; later requests require a significant change in circumstances.
- A request alone is not permission to drive. Temporary permits are governed by subsection (c); an appeal from a final hearing determination is a separate process.
Criminal charge
The criminal case
- Forum
- A criminal court
- Clock
- Check court notices and orders; no case duration is predicted here
- Alcohol-concentration threshold
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- First-offense penalty rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.The cited rule may describe a range or a minimum with conditions, not a predicted sentence.
- Lookback period
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Alcohol-concentration thresholds in Alaska
The cited provision controls the threshold’s scope. Underage and commercial rules can concern licensing as well as criminal liability; they are not all the same offense.
- Standard drivers
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Operating a commercial motor vehicle
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
- Under-21 rule
- Not published yet. We show a figure only once it has been confirmed against the official source and dated.
Alaska in detail
8 further Alaska topics — interlock, hardship licences, drug DUI, felony DUI, underage, commercial drivers, checkpoints and record relief — are part of the approved taxonomy and are not built yet.