"The California Division of Electric Motor Autos (DMV) is the state agency that signs up car and watercrafts and also issues chauffeur licenses in the U.S. state of California. It regulates new car dealers (via the New Car Board), business freight providers, private driving institutions, as well as personal web traffic schools. The DMV works with the superior courts of California to promptly record convictions against vehicle driver licenses and ultimately puts on hold or revokes licenses when a driver accumulates extreme convictions (as gauged by a point-based system). It provides The golden state license plates as well as vehicle driver's licenses. The DMV likewise issues identification cards to individuals that ask for one.

The DMV belongs to the California State Transport Company. It is headquartered in Sacramento and operates neighborhood workplaces in nearly every part of the state. As of December 2017, the DMV used over 8,900 individuals-- 35% at head office and 65% at 172 area workplaces (and various other places). Likewise, as of December 2017, it preserved documents for 30,112,927 individuals, 33,993,857 driver licenses and/or recognition cards (there is overlap as some persons can as well as do hold both papers), as well as 35,391,347 vehicles. The golden state has 26,957,875 accredited vehicle drivers.

On July 23, 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom launched a record by the California Federal Government Operations Agency "" DMV Reinvention Strike Team"" describing suggestions for improving DMV openness, employee training and performance, speed of service, and also total customer satisfaction. As part of the launch of the report, Newsom introduced the consultation of Steve Gordon as the director of the California DMV."