PRINTER'S NO. 149
No. 146 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY DENT, FEBRUARY 3, 2003
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 3, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for licensing eligibility.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 1503(c) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
6 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:
7 § 1503. Persons ineligible for licensing; license issuance to
8 minors; junior driver's license.
9 * * *
10 (c) Junior driver's license.--The department may issue a
11 junior driver's license to a person 16 or 17 years of age under
12 rules and regulations adopted by the department and subject to
13 the provisions of this section. A junior driver's license shall
14 automatically become a regular driver's license when the junior
15 driver attains 18 years of age.
16 * * *
17 (5) A licensed junior driver shall not drive a vehicle
1 in which there are more than two passengers under 21 years of
2 age unless the licensed junior driver is accompanied by a
3 spouse 18 years of age or older, a parent or a person in loco
4 parentis.
5 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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