Notice to flight attendants, bank clerks and bartenders: That 21-year-old who just handed you an Oregon driver's license with a big hole punched into the face?

As long as it hasn't expired, it's still a valid form of identification.

Applicants for new Oregon driver's licenses, permits and ID cards will get to keep using their old IDs -- with an invalidating hole -- until their new ones arrive in the mail, the Oregon Department of Transportation announced today.

Since 2007, Driver and Motor Vehicle Services has required that old IDs be turned over to DMV staff when new applications are filed, said David House, a department spokesman.

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People age away from their pictures, and license printing technology changes, and driving elligibility is sometimes revoked. Periodic renewal helps keep the population of unlicensed drivers down. As far as expired licenses counting as proof of age, in my experience that varies from state to state and bar to bar. In many states punching a hole in your drivers license invalidates it. What type of drivers license do you need to drive a vespa in california? Why don't the Obama Administration deal with gangs in the United States? What his policy about that?

In principle, the temporary paper IDs issued in exchange grant drivers the same privileges that laminated cards do. But some complained that the flimsy paper was not honored as identification for banking, shopping, traveling or proving age.

'Some people told us that they had no problem getting on a plane in Oregon,' DMV Administrator Tom McClellan said in a release, 'but when they tried to come back to Oregon, the airport in the other state would not accept their interim card.'

Starting April 1, DMV staff will punch a hole in the old IDs, then hand them back.

They won't be valid for driving -- you'll still need the paper driver's license for that. But you can use them to prove age and identity at Portland International Airport, your neighborhood bank branch or your favorite pub.

-- Michael Russell;
michaelrussell@news.oregonian.com