Motor Vehicles suspends your license for the following reasons, mainly, you have too many points on your license or you failed to respond to a ticket in Municipal Court.

First time is if you get six points on your license you’re going to receive points and if you get 12 points on your license, you’re going to get a suspension. Motor Vehicles will send a notice of suspension to your last known address. At that point you’re effectively suspended.

Secondly, you can receive a driver’s license suspension in court. Certain offenses such as driving while intoxicated or driving without insurance carry mandatory forfeiture of your driving privilege. At that point you are told by a judge your license is suspended.

And last but not least a lot of people let’s say get a ticket and they forget about it, they don’t respond to the court by a certain date. At that time the judge not only issues a warrant for your arrest and sets a bail, he’ll also suspend your driving privilege.

Any time you get a ticket whether it’s for something as low as, let’s say, a parking ticket, you must read the ticket and on the back it tells you what you have to do either to pay it or to contest it. If you don’t contest it and you don’t pay it, the day comes, the judge suspends your license.

Those are the main three ways to have a license suspension in New Jersey.