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Last updated on Wednesday, December 31, 2014
(UNDATED) - Today is the last day for drivers who lost their licenses over insurance violations to get a break on their reinstatement fee.
Legislators this year offered a temporary half-off discount to uninsured motorists whose licenses were suspended.
BMV spokesman Josh Gillespie says the six-month Reinstatement Relief Program has saved more than 14,000 drivers 75-to-150 dollars apiece, and brought in a total of more than three-million dollars. That's triple the number of drivers who got themselves back on the roads in the second half of 2013.
The fee can't be paid at license branches, but can be paid by phone, by mail, or on the BMV website. That gives drivers until midnight to take advantage of the lower fee.
But Gillespie warns that at midnight, not only does the discount expire, but fees jump to double or triple what they were before the program.
The current discounted fee is 75 dollars for a first offender, $112.50 for a second, and 150 dollars if you've been cited three or more times.
Starting Thursday, those penalties jump to 250, 500 and 1,000 dollars.
Gillespie notes suspended drivers may have to take additional steps to reinstate their licenses, from purchasing insurance to paying court costs.
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