Name:   Lifer - Subject:   Now I am getting nervous..... Date:   6/1/2017 12:23:32 PM

  It has changed since I did it 20 years or so ago. You can still do ti online and they mail you a certificate that you take to any DL location and take your pic and mail you a hard copy. When I did it you could the practice exam as many times as you wanted for free. When you felt comfortable you could pass you paid the fee and took the test. Pass or fail they kept your money, but you could do the process again immediately. The test is the same here in so much as it focuses on safety than "rules of the road". It is just a database of questions and each test just randomly selects x number of questions, be it the practice or the real test.

  I believe the process is pretty much the same now but administered by a third party that contracts across multiple states and jurisdictions if you decide to do it you can take your certificate to the courthouse here in dadeville to finalize the process. Pretty simple really. I am a strong advocate for requiring all operators to have one but also a realist and understand folks vacationing from out of state for a short term would be unduly burdened by having to have one. But then again we require those same folks to get a temporary license to fish or hunt. Maybe something similar could be developed for vessel licenses. At the very least it could provide additional revenue to a desperately underfunded department. But an overhaul of our antiquated state bearacracy could do the same thing.