Abstract: The object of this research is the system of public legal relations in the area of ensuring traffic safety. The subject of this research is the legal norms that regulate the administrative legal status of the driving examiner and examinee during a driving test. This work aims to conduct the analysis of the normative legal base regulating the driving test, as well as the legal status of the parties present in the vehicle during the driving test. The novelty of this study is justified by the practical and scientific importance of the problems of law enforcement activity in the area of ensuring traffic safety, as well as the need for improvement of the legal framework regulating authority of police divisions and departments in Russia. The authors analyze the federal legislation regarding legal status of the driving examiner and examinee during a live driving test. Proposals are made on establishing administrative legal status of the examiner, development the definition of “practice driving”, and determination of relation of live driving test to practice driving.