Membership in AAMVA opens the door to policy-making for the motor vehicle administration and law enforcement community and provides entree to numerous groups and organizations striving to meet the same goals of safety and security.
AAMVA’s membership includes jurisdictional, governmental and associate member (businesses, organizations and associations with interests compatible to AAMVA’s). Together, they receive numerous benefits:
- Voting rights (jurisdictional members only)
- Use of AAMVA online survey tool
- Discounted registration fees for meetings, conferences and other education and training sessions
- Member rates for advertisements
- Member rates for exhibition space
- Complimentary job postings
- Complimentary subscription to TWIR (The Week In Review), AAMVA's weekly e-newsletter
- Membership on appropriate listservs
- Receipt of Legislative and Regulatory Alerts
- Online access to member contact information
- Complimentary copy of IRP publications
- Access to federal policy makers
- Complimentary copies of AAMVA Policy Positions & Bylaws
- Complimentary subscription to MOVE, AAMVA's quarterly magazine
- Informational mailings
- Access to "member only" sections and documents on the AAMVA Web site
Associate members also benefit from increased visibility and contact among key decision-makers in the community.
For more information, download AAMVA's Roadmap.
AAMVA Bylaws and Policy Positions
AAMVA operates within the parameters of its bylaws.
AAMVA's membership adopts policies each year at the 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 others to use in determining official positions of AAMVA. We hope that they will be helpful to legislators who are considering matters related to motor vehicle administration, police traffic services, and highway safety.
While all of these policies have not necessarily been adopted by each of AAMVA's member jurisdictions, they do represent a consensus viewpoint of state and provincial officials charged with the responsibility for administering these various program areas through the years.
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 of the association.