Floyd County License Hearing Guide
How to request your Administrative License Hearing and protect your driving privileges after a DUI arrest.
Last verified: September 5, 2026
30-Day Deadline
You have exactly 30 days from your arrest to request a hearing. Miss this deadline and your license is automatically suspended. No exceptions.
Enter your arrest date to see your deadline:
If You Request in Time
- • Temporary permit until hearing
- • Chance to keep your license
- • Gather evidence for defense
If You Miss the Deadline
- • Automatic 90-180 day suspension
- • No hearing, no appeal
- • Starts after waiting period
How to Request Your Hearing
Online Request
Fee: Typically $50-$125
Available: 24/7
Instant confirmation
Phone Request
Fee: Same as online
Hours: Business hours only
Expect hold times
Information You'll Need
From Your Notice:
- • Driver License Number
- • Date of Arrest
- • Arresting Agency
- • Arresting Officer Name
Personal Information:
- • Full Legal Name
- • Current Address
- • Date of Birth
- • Phone Number & Email
After You Request
Temporary Permit
ImmediateDrive legally until your hearing
Hearing Notice
20-40 daysDate, time, and format mailed to you
Prepare Defense
Before hearingGather evidence, hire attorney
Attend Hearing
Scheduled dateUsually phone or video
Decision
Same dayWin: keep license. Lose: suspension starts
Temporary Permit
Immediate
Drive until hearing
Hearing Notice
20-40 days
Date mailed to you
Prepare
Before hearing
Gather evidence
Attend Hearing
Scheduled
Phone or video
Decision
Same day
Win or suspension
What to Expect at the Hearing
Most hearings are by phone or video
You usually don't need to travel. When you receive your hearing notice, it will specify whether it's phone, video, or in-person.
Duration
30-60 minutes typically
Who's There
You, your attorney (optional), state attorney, hearing officer
What They Review
Probable cause for stop, proper arrest procedure, test validity
Evidence That Can Help
- Dashcam or bodycam footage showing procedural errors
- Breathalyzer calibration records (if not current)
- Witness statements about your sobriety
- Medical conditions affecting field sobriety tests
Should You Hire an Attorney?
With an Attorney
- Can subpoena arresting officer
- Knows how to challenge evidence
- Uses hearing to strengthen criminal defense
- Higher success rate at hearings
Without an Attorney
- State has experienced attorney present
- May not know proper objections
- Can't effectively cross-examine officers
- Lower win rate statistically
If You Lose Your Hearing
Losing the hearing isn't the end. You still have options to maintain limited driving privileges:
Ignition Interlock
Drive with device installed
Occupational License
Limited driving for work/essentials
Frequently Asked Questions
Related Guides
You have 30 calendar days from a Floyd County DUI arrest to request an administrative hearing on your license, and this deadline has nothing to do with the criminal case. The DDS 1205 form the officer gives you is a 45-day permit, but doing nothing by day 30 means an automatic hard one-year suspension starting on day 46, with no limited permit available at all.
Filing the request
The appeal is not filed in Rome. Mail DDS form 1206 with a $150 fee, by money order or certified check, to the DDS hearing-request address in Conyers. Send it certified mail with return receipt so you have proof it landed inside the window. A timely filing pauses the suspension and gets you an evidentiary hearing before an administrative law judge, usually within 60 days of the arrest.
The alternative is to skip the hearing and install an ignition interlock within the same 30 days to get a limited permit. Choosing the interlock permanently gives up your right to the hearing, so weigh the cost of the device against whatever procedural challenge your lawyer sees in the stop.
Winning your case doesn't fix your license
This trips people up. If the DUI is dismissed, you're acquitted, or it's reduced to reckless driving, the administrative suspension does not lift on its own. The state database doesn't sync with the Floyd County court docket. You have to get a certified copy of the final disposition from the Clerk of Court and send it to DDS in Conyers yourself.
The Rome DDS office
It's at 3390 Martha Berry Highway, open Tuesday through Friday until 6 p.m., closed Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. It takes walk-ins for reinstatements and interlock permits, but Tuesday is jammed with the backlog from the two closed days. Wednesday or Thursday morning is faster.
After a conviction
Reinstatement is $200 by mail or online, $210 in person, plus an SR-22 from an insurer and proof of the 20-hour Risk Reduction course. That course is a fixed $360, a 130-question assessment plus 20 classroom hours. A Rome provider runs the class and also does the clinical evaluation and outpatient treatment the state may require afterward. If a judge orders continuous alcohol monitoring, that goes through a regional probation-services provider in Rome. For an interlock, Intoxalock has an installer in Rome on Shorter Avenue, by appointment, with the nearest alternative in Adairsville.
Last updated: September 5, 2026
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