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DUI law in Arizona
The criminal charge and your driving privileges are separate questions. Check both.
DUI law in Arizona 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
- 30 days after the date of the notice. ADOT must receive the hearing request within that period (administrative-per-se suspension)
- A timely hearing request stays the suspension until the hearing. This page does not calculate a personal deadline.
- Issuance of a special ignition-interlock restricted driver license under subsection K waives the administrative hearing right.
- Suspension under the cited rule
- At least 90 consecutive days under the general rule. Qualifying drivers instead receive at least 30 days suspended and at least 60 additional days restricted; a qualifying ignition-interlock alternative is also available
- The restricted-driving route requires the conditions in subsection I, including no death or serious physical injury to another person, the specified prior-conviction limits, and completed screening. Subsection J provides an interlock alternative for qualifying applicants.
- Hearing procedure under the cited rule
- written or online request for a hearing may be submitted
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 Arizona
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.
Arizona in detail
8 further Arizona 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.