Currently, if you get pulled over in the City of Chicago for using your cell phone while driving without a hands-free device, the police have the authority to take away your driver’s license.

Not so fast, says “da Mare”:

At Wednesday’s City Council meeting, Mayor Daley introduced an ordinance that would allow motorists pulled over for violating the cell phone ban — or the newly approved ban on text-messaging and surfing the Internet while driving — to hang on to their licenses and contest their tickets by mail or at an administrative hearing.

“It’s intended to provide a convenience for motorists ticketed for cell phone violations. . . . If there are other violations, this ordinance would not apply,” said Police Department spokeswoman Monique Bond.

Read more in today’s Chicago Sun-Times.

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