TLC Driver License | City of New York

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Operating & Renewing

To renew your TLC driver license, pay $252 online with a credit card, debit card, or electronic check. Please pay at least 30 days ahead of your license’s expiration date to avoid a $25 late fee.
You must also take a drug test at least 90 days before your license expiration date. The testing center will automatically tell the TLC if you have passed.
If the last defensive driving course you have on file with the TLC was more than three years before your license, you need to retake it and submit proof of completion of the course to the TLC.
If you have not taken wheelchair-accessible vehicle training, you need to take it. The school will inform the TLC when you have completed the course.
If you do not have a New York State DMV driver license, submit an original out of state driver record dated no more than 90 days before your license expiration date. Contact your state’s DMV to obtain the record.
Pay any parking or traffic tickets that you may have, as well as any TLC fines.
Only For-Hire-Vehicle drivers who applied for a license between March 20, 2015 and December 19, 2015 will have to attend TLC Driver Education and take the exam prior to renewal. If you have taken the course and passed the exam for the TLC 24 hour course, you do not need to retake it.

Renew Online

Submit your application and payment online.