DUI deadline and timeline calculator
Pick a state and enter the day the licence was taken, and this calculator dates the deadlines that run from it: the last day to request a hearing on the administrative suspension, when the temporary permit on the notice runs out, and the earliest a restricted privilege can begin.
Only those dates are calculated, because only those run from a day the reader can supply. The interlock and financial-responsibility periods start at a later event, usually a conviction or the reinstatement itself, so they are shown as lengths with the event that starts them named.
Estimate
Choose a state.
Why the hearing deadline comes first
In most states the licensing agency suspends a licence at arrest, separately from anything a court does later. That administrative suspension can be contested, but only inside a short window that starts the day the notice is served, and the window is measured in days rather than weeks: several states allow seven, many allow ten to fifteen, a few allow thirty.
Missing it does not end the case, but it lets the administrative suspension take effect without review. Where a state counts the window in business days rather than calendar days, the calculator counts business days and skips weekends. State holidays are not applied, because the agency's own calendar governs and inventing a holiday list would move a deadline the source did not move.
The waiting period before any driving
Most states impose a stretch with no driving privilege at all before a restricted or hardship privilege can start, and the length usually differs between a failed test and a refusal. Refusing is treated more harshly in almost every state that distinguishes them, so the calculator asks which happened whenever the two periods differ.
A handful of states issue no restricted privilege during a DUI suspension at all. Where that is the case the calculator says so rather than showing a date, and the state page quotes the agency or statute saying it.
Frequently asked questions
- Is the deadline counted from the arrest or from the conviction?
- From the notice, which is normally served at arrest. The administrative suspension runs on the licensing agency's timeline and is separate from the court case, so a conviction date does not start or move this deadline.
- Why does the interlock period have no date?
- Because its clock does not start at the arrest. States tie it to the conviction, the start of the suspension, or reinstatement, and that date is not known from a notice date. The length is shown instead, with the starting event named.
- Does a court date change these deadlines?
- A court can impose its own conditions and its own dates, and those sit alongside the administrative timeline rather than replacing it. The figures here are the ones the statute and the licensing agency state.
- What if the deadline has already passed?
- The calculator marks a date in the past rather than hiding it. What follows a missed request differs by state, and each state page carries the agency's own wording on that point.