The California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) offers many services.

Services include:

• Licensing
• Plates, Permits, & Placards
• Records
• Registration
• Replace Lost/Stolen/Damaged
• Request miscellaneous original documents
• Testing
• Title Transfers
• Records ownership (certificate of title) of vehicles DMV registers
• Issues ID cards * Including REAL ID
• Investigates consumer complaints
• Appointments at local offices for doing DMV business.
• Ability to do many DMV business functions online and by mail.

* ID Cards

• Info on ID cards, including Reduced-fee ID cards for income-qualified people: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/renew-your-driver-license-dl-or-identification-card-id/#idcard
• Info on REAL ID cards: https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/driver-licenses-identification-cards/real-id/. A REAL ID is a driver license or identification card that is also a federally accepted form of identification. It can be used to board a domestic flight within the US and enter secure federal facilities, such as military bases, federal courthouses, and other secure federal locations. To get a REAL ID you must provide proof of identity, proof of social security number, and two proofs of residency.

Web Pages

• DMV Home Webpage - https://www.dmv.ca.gov/portal/