An 18-year-old driver already had one Zero Tolerance suspension and is now found to have committed a second Zero Tolerance violation. What happens to the license?

Why

Under the Zero Tolerance law, the second violation is treated far more harshly than the first. A first finding means a six-month suspension. A second one means revocation, and its length is set two ways: a minimum of one year, or until the 21st birthday, and the later of the two applies. For an 18-year-old that second part is what counts, because turning 21 is about three years away, much longer than one year. Repeating the six-month suspension is therefore wrong. The 120-day figure is a real New York penalty, but it belongs to junior and probationary drivers convicted for the first time of texting or hand-held phone use. A second Zero Tolerance finding takes the license for at least a year, and for an 18-year-old the wait runs all the way to the 21st birthday.