A first-time applicant has completed the other requirements. What is the minimum age for a Maryland provisional license?
Correct answer: 16 years and 6 months.
The provisional-license minimum is 16 years and 6 months. It is different from the learner-permit age and remains subject to the other qualification requirements.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-103(c)(2); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You are driving a car with a Maryland learner’s permit. Where must your qualified supervisor sit?
Correct answer: Beside you in the front passenger seat.
For a car, immediate supervision requires the qualified person to sit beside the learner. The statute has a separate motorcycle provision, not a rear-seat option for car practice.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-105(b)(1)(iii); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Within the supervised practice required for a 17-year-old learner, how many hours must occur during the statute’s nighttime practice period?
Correct answer: At least 10 hours.
Ten of the 60 supervised practice hours must fall in the defined nighttime period. Completing the total entirely in daytime is insufficient.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-105(d)(2)(ii)2; Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
For a first-time teen applicant, what is the minimum classroom instruction in the approved driver education program?
Correct answer: 30 hours.
The approved program includes at least 30 classroom hours and at least six highway-driving instruction hours. Supervised practice is a separate requirement.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-105(d)(2)(ii)1; Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A 27-year-old learner receives probation before judgment for a moving violation. What minimum period must follow that most recent PBJ before the provisional road test?
Correct answer: Nine months.
For an applicant at least 25 who has a moving conviction or PBJ, the statute uses nine months from the most recent such event. The clean-record 45-day period does not override it.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-105(d)(5)(i); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A first-time learner finishes the permit period and required training. What driving examination is still required for a provisional license?
Correct answer: A driver skills or road examination.
Completing time and training requirements is not a substitute for passing the required skills or road examination. Other licensing conditions also remain applicable.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-111(b)(3); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A 17-year-old provisional driver is going directly home from an organized volunteer program at 1 a.m. Is that purpose within a nighttime exception?
Correct answer: Yes; travel to or from an organized volunteer program qualifies.
Maryland specifically lists travel to or from an organized volunteer program. Other restrictions and safe-driving duties still apply.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-113(d)(3)(iv); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A provisional driver turns 18. What happens to the under-18 nighttime restriction itself?
Correct answer: It expires on the eighteenth birthday.
The statute ends this hour restriction and its supervision requirement at age 18. This does not remove unrelated restrictions, such as the under-21 alcohol restriction.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-113(d)(4); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A 17-year-old provisional driver carries adult friends, with no medical exceptions. One rear passenger refuses a seat belt. May the driver continue?
Correct answer: No; the driver and every passenger must be properly restrained.
The under-18 provisional restriction requires restraint of the driver and every passenger, using a belt or appropriate child seat. The adult passenger’s age does not create an exception.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-113(d-1)(1)–(2); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A 19-year-old learner, properly supervised, wants to use a handheld telephone for a nonemergency call while operating the car. Is the general adult call-starting exception enough?
Correct answer: No; learners are subject to the separate prohibition.
The statute separately prohibits handheld telephone use by learners and provisional drivers who are 18 or older. The general call-starting exception does not apply to that listed group.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1124.2(b), (c)(2) and (d)(1); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You know your prescribed medicine has made you unable to drive safely. Does having a lawful prescription by itself allow you to drive?
Correct answer: No; lawful use does not excuse knowingly unsafe impairment.
The law prohibits drug impairment that prevents safe driving. Where the driver knows of that impairment, lawful entitlement to use the medicine does not supply the claimed defense.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-902(c)(1)(i) and (iv); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Under the current Maryland reckless-driving provision, driving at least how far above the posted limit is itself a listed reckless-driving condition?
Correct answer: 30 mph above the posted limit.
The current provision expressly lists a speed at least 30 mph above the posted limit. Smaller excesses can still violate speed laws or be unsafe; this is not permission to exceed the limit.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-901.1(a)(3); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A uniformed officer is identifying you as the driver. May you give a relative’s name instead of your own to avoid a citation?
Correct answer: No; giving another person’s or a false name is prohibited.
The statute prohibits giving another person’s name or a false or fictitious name to a uniformed officer attempting to identify a driver.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §16-112(e); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A railroad flagger signals an approaching train, although the automatic lights are not flashing. What must you do?
Correct answer: Stop as required and wait until crossing is safe.
A flagger’s signal of a train’s approach is independently one of the circumstances requiring a stop. Automatic warning lights do not have to be operating for that duty to apply.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-701(a)(2)(iii); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
A driver wants to switch off the car’s exterior lights so the vehicle cannot be identified. Is that purpose lawful?
Correct answer: No; switching off lights to avoid identification is prohibited.
Maryland specifically prohibits turning vehicle lights off to avoid identification. This is separate from ordinary rules about when lamps must be on.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1112; Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
No statutory exception applies to your private car. May you equip or use it with a siren to make traffic clear a path?
Correct answer: No; an ordinary car has no such siren exception.
Sirens, whistles and bells are prohibited except as authorized by the section. Owning a warning device does not grant emergency-vehicle privileges.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §22-401(c); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Your windshield wipers no longer clear the glass properly. Can you treat working wipers as optional equipment?
Correct answer: No; windshield wipers must remain in good working order.
The statute requires every windshield wiper to be maintained in good working order. Planning around a forecast is not a substitute for maintaining the equipment.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §22-404(d); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You plan to use a muffler bypass to make your gasoline car louder on a highway. Is that permitted?
Correct answer: No; a muffler cutout or bypass may not be used.
An internal-combustion vehicle needs a working exhaust muffler system in constant operation. The statute expressly prohibits a cutout, bypass or similar device on a highway.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §22-402(a); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You are involved in a collision that injures another person. What is your immediate scene duty?
Correct answer: Stop near the scene and remain to fulfill your duties.
The driver must stop as close as possible without obstructing traffic more than necessary, return if needed, and remain until the assistance and information duties are met.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-102(a); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
Which information must you provide to the other covered people after an attended-vehicle crash?
Correct answer: Your name, address and the vehicle’s registration number.
The statute requires name, address and vehicle registration number. On request, the driver also exhibits the available driving license.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-104(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You damage an unoccupied parked car. What must you do first under the unattended-property rule?
Correct answer: Stop and attempt to locate the responsible person.
The driver must stop near the scene without unnecessary obstruction and attempt to locate the driver, owner or person in charge. An unattended car is not an exemption from crash duties.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-105(a)–(b); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You can make a report, and no police investigation report has been filed with State Police. Within how long must an injury crash be reported in writing to the MVA?
Correct answer: 15 days after the crash.
The written-report period is 15 days for a crash involving injury or death. The question excludes the police-report and physical-incapacity exceptions.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §20-107(a) and (f); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You are parked and a cyclist is approaching alongside the car. When may you open the traffic-side door?
Correct answer: When reasonably safe and without interfering with moving traffic.
Opening a door on a side available to moving traffic must be reasonably safe and must not interfere with that traffic. A cyclist alongside the car is part of that safety check.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1105(a); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
You are not on official business. How close may you follow fire apparatus responding to a fire alarm?
Correct answer: Do not follow within 500 feet.
Ordinary traffic may not follow within 500 feet of responding fire apparatus. Do not use the space behind it as a shortcut through traffic.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1109(a)(1); Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
An unprotected fire hose lies across a highway or private driveway. What permission is required before driving over it?
Correct answer: Consent of the fire department official in command.
Do not cross the unprotected hose without the consent of the fire department official in command. A private-driveway location does not create an exception.
Source: Maryland Code, Transportation §21-1110; Maryland General Assembly current statute text, reviewed September 15, 2026. ↗
