(1997)

Dear Delegate Bobo:

You have requested our opinion on several questions about the procedures of the Medical Advisory Board ("MAB") of the Motor Vehicle Administration. Your first question concerns the statutory requirement that "good cause" exist for the Administrator to refer a driver for MAB evaluation. Specifically, you ask whether "good cause" may be based, as you describe it, "on a police officer's hearsay information and, after interviewing the driver, [the officer's] conclusion that the driver has the physical defects of `memory and awareness' and `depth perception and reflexes.'" Your…