A law enforcement officer suspects you of DUI and asks you to take a blood or urine test. You refuse. What will DMV do to your driving privilege?
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A.
Issue a written warning with no license impact.
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B.
Suspend or revoke it for one year. Correct
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C.
Require a driving retest but no suspension.
The answer is "Suspend or revoke it for one year."
Refusing a blood or urine test triggers a one-year suspension or revocation under California's implied-consent rule. Drivers who carry over a first-refusal warning-letter practice from another state, where an initial chemical-test refusal draws an administrative letter rather than an automatic suspension, reach for Choice A.
The traps in the wrong answers
A. Issue a written warning with no license impact.
Refusal triggers a one-year suspension or revocation, not a warning letter. This answer carries over a first-refusal warning-letter practice from a state that treats an initial chemical-test refusal as an administrative letter rather than an automatic suspension.
C. Require a driving retest but no suspension.
The penalty is a one-year suspension or revocation, not a driving skills retest. This answer confuses the DUI chemical-test refusal penalty with the negligent-operator reexamination, which retests driving skills instead of sanctioning refusal.
This question tests your knowledge of DUI & Impaired Driving in California. Source: California Driver Manual, "SECTION 9. Alcohol and Drugs," p.72..
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