PRINTER'S NO. 279
No. 282 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY BUNT, CORRIGAN, McGEEHAN, ZUG, NAILOR, GEIST,
EGOLF, VANCE, KAISER, MARKOSEK, SCHULER, MARSICO, KELLER,
READSHAW, FICHTER, GODSHALL, LEDERER, PRESTON, CASORIO,
HERSHEY, TRELLO, CAPPABIANCA, TRUE, STERN, E. Z. TAYLOR,
S. MILLER, BARD, J. TAYLOR, HALUSKA, L. I. COHEN, ADOLPH,
PISTELLA, SERAFINI, CIVERA, HARHAI, WILT AND CORNELL,
FEBRUARY 2, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 2, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for period of revocation or
3 suspension of operating privilege.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1541(a) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 1541. Period of revocation or suspension of operating
9 privilege.
10 (a) Commencement of period.--
11 (1) The period of disqualification, revocation or
12 suspension of the operating privilege or the disqualification
13 of the commercial operating privilege shall commence as
14 provided for in section 1540 (relating to surrender of
15 license).
16 (2) No credit toward the revocation, suspension or
1 disqualification shall be earned until the driver's license
2 is surrendered to the department, the court or the district
3 attorney, as the case may be. A nonresident licensed driver
4 or an unlicensed driver, including a driver whose license has
5 expired, shall submit an acknowledgment of suspension or
6 revocation to the department in lieu of a driver's license,
7 except for the suspension of the operating privilege of an
8 unlicensed driver under 16 years of age, in which case the
9 suspension shall commence automatically upon the individual's
10 16th birthday for the specified period if an acknowledgment
11 is received any time prior to the individual's 16th birthday.
12 If a licensed driver is not in possession of his driver's
13 license, no credit toward the disqualification, revocation or
14 suspension shall be earned until a sworn affidavit or a form
15 prescribed by the department is surrendered to the department
16 swearing that the driver is not in possession of his driver's
17 license. Such credit shall be rescinded if it is later
18 determined that the driver was untruthful in the affidavit.
19 (3) Credit shall also be revoked if a person surrenders
20 a duplicate license and it is later determined that the
21 person was still in possession of an earlier issued,
22 unexpired license.
23 (4) Credit shall also be revoked for any time period in
24 which the person whose license is suspended, revoked or
25 disqualified is incarcerated for a violation of this title.
26 (5) The department may, upon request of the person whose
27 license is suspended or disqualified, delay the commencement
28 of the period of suspension or disqualification for a period
29 not exceeding six months whenever the department determines
30 that failure to grant the extension will result in hardship
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1 to the person whose license has been suspended or
2 disqualified.
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4 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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