New York Codes, Rules and Regulations › Title 15 - Department of Motor Vehicles › Chapter I - REGULATIONS OF THE COMMISSIONER › Subchapter A - DRIVER LICENSING AND TRAINING › Part 10 - INTERNET PRE-LICENSING COURSE › Section 10.5 - Course content and presentation

Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 28, July 10, 2024
(a)
				  Sponsors must deliver all internet pre-licensing courses using the
				  internet.
(b) Sponsors must utilize
				  all identity and participation validation methods prescribed by the
				  Commissioner. Sponsors must make any modifications and updates required
				  whenever the Commissioner revises such requirements.
(c) An approved internet pre-licensing course
				  must consist of not less than two hundred seventy (270) minutes of instruction.
				  The course shall be given in accordance with a curriculum provided by the
				  Department and must be presented using methods and practices acceptable to the
				  Commissioner.
(d) Sponsors may
				  administer a course that is delivered in different languages, but no sponsor
				  shall deliver courses that vary in content.
(e) Immediately upon any individual's
				  completion of a course, sponsors must submit a course completion confirmation
				  to the Department in a form and manner prescribed by the Commissioner. Within
				  twenty-four (24) hours of a student successfully completing the course,
				  sponsors must issue a notification of completion electronically to those
				  individuals who have successfully completed the course. The notification of
				  completion must include the name of the student, only the last three digits of
				  the student's client identification number, the sponsor code issued by the
				  Department for the internet pre-licensing course, and the date the student
				  completed the course. This notification of completion is not an official course
				  completion confirmation. Sponsors must not issue a course completion
				  confirmation to the Department or a notification of completion to the student
				  prior to the student successfully completing all requirements of the course.
				  Sponsors must indicate on the course completion confirmation the identity of
				  the motorist who completed the course, identity of the sponsor which
				  administered the course, course completion date, method by which the course was
				  administered, and any other information required by the Commissioner. Course
				  completion confirmations must only be provided by the sponsor directly to the
				  Department in a form and manner required by the Commissioner. Sponsors must
				  obtain approval from the Commissioner as to the format of the course completion
				  confirmation.
(f) Sponsors must
				  maintain records as required by the Commissioner. Records of individuals who
				  complete a course, or attempt to complete a course, must be retained by
				  sponsors for a period of at least five (5) years from the date the record is
				  created, or the date of course completion, whichever is later. Sponsors must
				  make such records available during such period for inspection and verification
				  by the Department.
(g) Sponsors
				  must issue duplicate notification of course completion to any individual who
				  has completed the course upon such individual's request. Sponsors must not
				  charge individuals for the issuance of duplicate notification of course
				  completion. Sponsors must not issue duplicate notification of course completion
				  more than one (1) year after completion of the course. The duplicate
				  confirmation must have the same expiration date as the original.
(h) Sponsors must notify the Department
				  immediately following any security or data breach, or at any time Sponsors
				  have, or are notified that there exists, a reasonable belief that a security or
				  data breach has taken place.
(i) In
				  the event a course is discontinued, sponsors must report and provide all course
				  completion information to the Department. Sponsors must account for all
				  motorists who participate in the internet pre-licensing course, and sponsors
				  must make all payments due to the Department during administration of the
				  course and following course discontinuance.