Alaska license points
12 points in 12 months
What the rule says happens: mandatory suspension or revocation of the driving privilege
Accumulating 12 points in 12 months or 18 points in 24 months requires the mandatory suspension or revocation of the driving privilege, regardless of the hardships involved.
Points for each violation
| Violation, in Alaska’s wording | Points |
|---|---|
SPEEDING: In school zone or playground crosswalk | 6 |
SPEEDING: 3 to 9 mph over limit | 2 |
SPEEDING: 10 to 19 mph over limit | 4 |
SPEEDING: 20 mph or more over limit | 6 |
Reckless driving | 10 |
Following too close | 4 |
Failure to stop for school bus while bus is loading or unloading | 6 |
Failure to obey official traffic control devices in school zone, playground, crosswalk, or park | 6 |
Failure to stop or yield | 4 |
Driving while intoxicated / under the influence | 10 |
Speed contest........Racing | 10 |
Leaving the scene of a crash | 9 |
Negligent driving | 6 |
Careless driving types of behavior | 4 |
All other moving violations | 2 |
These are the lines we have. Alaska’s full schedule is at the source links and may list more.
Sources for these lines, word for word
SPEEDING: In school zone or playground crosswalk 6 3 to 9 mph over limit 2 10 to 19 mph over limit 4 20 mph or more over limit 6
Reckless driving 10
Following too close 4
Failure to stop for school bus while bus is loading or unloading 6
Failure to obey official traffic control devices in school zone, playground, crosswalk, or park 6
Failure to stop or yield 4
Driving while intoxicated / under the influence 10
Speed contest........Racing 10
Leaving the scene of a crash 9
Negligent driving 6
Careless driving types of behavior 4
All other moving violations 2
When points lead to a suspension or other action
| Points | Within | The rule’s wording | What happens | Applies to |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | 12 months | see the rule | mandatory suspension or revocation of the driving privilege | see the rule |
| 18 | 24 months | see the rule | mandatory suspension or revocation of the driving privilege | see the rule |
| 6 | 12 months | see the rule | must complete a driver improvement course | A provisional license holder |
| 9 | 24 months | see the rule | must complete a driver improvement course | A provisional license holder |
Whether a rule means that many points or more, or more than that many, is in the rule’s own words below.
The rules, word for word
Accumulating 12 points in 12 months or 18 points in 24 months requires the mandatory suspension or revocation of the driving privilege, regardless of the hardships involved.
A provisional license holder who accumulates 6 or more points in a 12-month period or 9 or more points in a 24-month period must complete a driver improvement course approved by the Division.
How long points last
We don’t have Alaska’s wording on this yet. The periods beside the figures above are the only ones we have.
Which date counts
We don’t have Alaska’s wording on whether the violation date or the conviction date counts. The agency is the place to ask.
Taking points off: courses and clean driving
Credits may be earned for violation-free driving and/or completion of a defensive driver course (DDC). A DDC may be taken once every 12 months for a point reduction.
Unless you are challenging the ticket in court, you will want to pay the ticket before you take the defensive driving course. If you do not, the points from the defensive driving course may not apply to your points total and reduce your total number of points.
Tickets from other states
If you are convicted of, or forfeit bail for, a moving traffic violation occurring in this, or any other State, points will be entered on your Alaska driving record.
The point system itself
Convictions for moving traffic violations are assigned numeric point values ranging from 2 points to 10 points.
More from Alaska’s rules
Traffic law violators are sent a warning letter upon reaching the half way mark towards a point suspension.
No limited “work purpose” license is available should a suspension or revocation of the driving privilege be required.
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Total so far
Reference only, not legal or insurance advice. Confirm with the agency. Full statement.
What this adds up, and what it can’t say
- This is arithmetic on quoted values, and nothing else. It does not predict any outcome.
- The date a state counts from (the violation date or the conviction date) is as quoted. The calculator does not decide it: it uses the date entered for each line.
- Courts and agencies decide actual outcomes, under the full text of the law and the full driving record, which this page does not have.
- Insurance companies use their own separate systems. This calculator works out nothing about insurance.
- A printed figure is compared with a sum only where the same quoted passage prints a period. The comparison says below, equal to or above. Whether a passage means that figure or more, or more than that figure, is in the passage’s own words.
- How periods are counted here is this calculator’s own convention, not a rule from any source. Months and years are calendar months and years counted back from the date chosen. Where the earlier month is shorter, its last day is used. The day reached is the period’s first day, and a line dated on that first day is outside the period. A line dated on the date chosen is inside. For example, a period of one month ending March 31, 2026 has the first day February 28, 2026, so a line dated that day is not counted and a line dated the day after is. An agency may count differently.
- Nothing typed here leaves this page or is stored.
The checker has only the violations in the table above.
Sources for Alaska
- Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles, Points
- The licensing agency: Alaska Division of Motor Vehicles
Official pages we asked for and don’t quote
| Official page | What the request got |
|---|---|
| the Department of Administration's older DMV points page | The request was refused (HTTP 403). |
| Alaska Statutes 28.15.221, the point system statute | The page answered with text. A search of that text, as our reader extracted it, for the exact string “point system” found it 0 times, for “demerit” found it 0 times, for “points” found it 0 times. We quote nothing from this page. |
| Alaska Administrative Code 2 AAC 90.310, the point schedule regulation | The answer had no text our reader could use. |