"The The Golden State Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is the state company that registers motor vehicles and also boats and also concerns chauffeur licenses in the U.S. state of California. It manages brand-new car dealerships (via the New Motor Vehicle Board), industrial freight providers, private driving institutions, and personal web traffic colleges. The DMV works with the superior courts of California to quickly tape-record sentences versus driver licenses as well as subsequently puts on hold or revokes licenses when a driver gathers excessive convictions (as gauged by a point-based system). It releases The golden state license plates and motorist's licenses. The DMV additionally provides recognition cards to individuals that ask for one.

The DMV becomes part of the California State Transportation Firm. It is headquartered in Sacramento and operates neighborhood workplaces in virtually every part of the state. Since December 2017, the DMV employed over 8,900 individuals-- 35% at headquarters as well as 65% at 172 field workplaces (as well as various other places). Likewise, since December 2017, it preserved records for 30,112,927 individuals, 33,993,857 motorist licenses and/or identification cards (there is overlap as some persons can and do hold both documents), and 35,391,347 lorries. California has 26,957,875 qualified vehicle drivers.

On July 23, 2019, Guv Gavin Newsom launched a report by the California Government Workflow Firm "" DMV Reinvention Strike Team"" detailing referrals for improving DMV openness, employee training as well as performance, speed of service, as well as general customer contentment. As part of the launch of the record, Newsom introduced the visit of Steve Gordon as the supervisor of the California DMV."