Your DUI License Hearing Deadline, Counted From the Arrest

Every line of a result comes from one row of the DUI dataset behind this site's 51-row chart of first-offense penalties and hearing deadlines, checked on October 14, 2026: the deadline, fines, jail and suspension from the statute or the licensing agency's page, and for most states the per-se limit, the administrative suspension and the interlock rule from the Governors Highway Safety Association (GHSA) and National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) tables. The lookup reads the row for the state you choose, uses your answers to decide which cells apply, and prints each one with its source.

Each answer changes your result in a specific way. The arrest date is only the day a count starts. Your BAC band is placed against the state's recorded per-se limit, which is 0.08 in 50 jurisdictions and 0.05 in Utah. A refusal brings in the first-refusal penalty where one of the 7 recorded refusal cells exists, and it decides whether a window that applies only to refusals, as in the District of Columbia, Michigan and South Dakota, is counted. The commercial license and under-21 answers do not swap in other figures: the dataset records the general first-offense rules only, and the result says so rather than presenting the general rule as a rule written for those drivers.

A hearing window is written as a number of days, and the event the count runs from matters as much as the number. Louisiana's 30 days and South Dakota's 120 days run from the arrest, as the cells say. Five cells tie the count to a later event that the tool has no date for: Hawaii's 6 days (after the administrative review decision is mailed), Maine's 10 days (from the effective date of the suspension), New Hampshire's 30 days (from the date the notice is issued), Ohio's 30 days (court appeal after initial appearance) and Oklahoma's 30 days (petition to the district court after the revocation notice is mailed). For those five, no date is counted.

For the other 32 jurisdictions with a day count, the cell gives the number without naming the event it runs from. The tool counts those days from the arrest date and labels the result as the statute's window as recorded, to be confirmed with the DMV, because, as the five cells above show, the start can be a notice, a mailing or a decision rather than the arrest. Arkansas and Utah state calendar days in their cells; for every other state the count adds calendar days, as recorded, and a weekend or holiday rule in the statute could move the last day. Where a cell records a further figure, as the cells for the District of Columbia, Maryland and Wisconsin do, the result counts that figure too and quotes the cell's words for it.

In Kentucky, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Virginia and West Virginia, the statute read for the dataset sets no request window after a failed test, because a court orders or reviews the suspension or the license action follows a conviction, and the result quotes each state's cell. Nevada accepts a request any time during the revocation, as the cell says. The District of Columbia, Michigan and South Dakota limit their recorded windows to a test refusal, so a count is made there only when the BAC answer is a refusal.

For Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, New Jersey and Tennessee, no statute or agency page read stated a day count, so the result says the deadline is not confirmed; it never shows zero.

It shows no attorney fee and no court costs. No attorney fee is sourced in the dataset, and the research found no published court costs for any state, so the money lines are the statutory fine ranges alone. Assessments and surcharges, interlock installation, alcohol education classes and license reinstatement fees are not in the dataset, so none of them is shown or added.

It also gives no view on your arrest. It does not say whether a hearing request is worth making, how a hearing or a criminal case will end, or which penalty within a range a court will choose. The ranges are the limits the statute sets for a first offense.

All 46 recorded hearing deadlines rest on the statute or the licensing agency's page; cells from the GHSA and NCSL tables are marked secondary, and a blank cell reads as not recorded rather than as none. GHSA lists an administrative suspension for Kentucky, New York and West Virginia, but the statutes there send the license question to a court or tie it to a conviction, and the result says so. Laws can change after any legislative session, so the penalty, lookback and refusal rules here are re-read after each one, and hearing deadlines and DMV pages are checked twice a year; the next full review is due April 14, 2027. The source link on each line takes you to the text it was read from.