Uniform practices among jurisdictions facilitates effective service and administration. As such, AAMVA’s membership adopts policies each year at its Annual International Conference.
These policies are intended to provide guidelines
- for members to use in comparing departmental and administrative procedures,
- for staff to use in planning programs and answering inquiries, and
- for legislators to use in determining official positions of AAMVA.
While all policies may not have been adopted by each of AAMVA’s jurisdictional members, they represent a consensus viewpoint of state and provincial officials responsible for administering these various program areas.
History of Policies
The original volume of AAMVA Policy Statements was compiled in the mid-1960s, under a grant from the Automotive Safety Foundation. Revisions were published in 1978 and 1982 to reflect changes approved at Annual International Conferences. Since 1982, this volume has been revised regularly to reflect current policies.