"The The Golden State Division of Motor Autos (DMV) is the state agency that registers car as well as boats as well as concerns chauffeur licenses in the U.S. state of California. It controls brand-new cars and truck dealers (with the New Car Board), business cargo carriers, private driving colleges, and private web traffic schools. The DMV works with the superior courts of California to immediately tape convictions versus chauffeur licenses and subsequently puts on hold or revokes licenses when a chauffeur accumulates too much sentences (as determined by a point-based system). It provides California permit plates and chauffeur's licenses. The DMV additionally issues identification cards to individuals who request one.

The DMV becomes part of the California State Transportation Company. It is headquartered in Sacramento and also operates neighborhood offices in nearly every part of the state. Since December 2017, the DMV employed over 8,900 people-- 35% at head office and also 65% at 172 area offices (and numerous other locations). Likewise, as of December 2017, it maintained documents for 30,112,927 individuals, 33,993,857 driver licenses and/or recognition cards (there is overlap as some persons can as well as do hold both papers), and 35,391,347 lorries. California has 26,957,875 certified chauffeurs.

On July 23, 2019, Guv Gavin Newsom launched a record by the California Government Procedures Agency "" DMV Reinvention Strike Group"" describing recommendations for improving DMV openness, employee training and also efficiency, rate of service, and total consumer fulfillment. As part of the release of the report, Newsom revealed the visit of Steve Gordon as the director of the California DMV."