PRINTER'S NO. 325
No. 310 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY ERICKSON, M. WHITE, MOWERY, COSTA, LAVALLE,
KUKOVICH, KITCHEN, MUSTO, ROBBINS, RAFFERTY, GREENLEAF,
TARTAGLIONE, WOZNIAK, C. WILLIAMS AND PILEGGI,
FEBRUARY 13, 2003
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 13, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for junior driver's licenses.
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 to read:
7 § 1503. Persons ineligible for licensing; license
8 issuance to 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 (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), no licensed
17 junior driver shall drive a vehicle upon a public highway
1 between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m. unless accompanied by a spouse 18
2 years of age or older, a parent or a person in loco parentis.
3 (2) A licensed junior driver conforming to the
4 requirements of section 1507 (relating to application for
5 driver's license or learner's permit by minor) may drive a
6 vehicle upon a public highway between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.
7 between the junior driver's home and activity, event or
8 employment or in the course of the junior driver's activity,
9 event or employment if the junior driver is a member of a
10 volunteer fire company authorized by the fire chief to engage
11 in fighting fires, is engaged in public or charitable
12 service, is traveling to, from or in connection with a
13 school-sponsored event or is employed and is carrying an
14 affidavit or certificate of authorization signed by the
15 junior driver's fire chief, supervisor, school official or
16 employer indicating the probable schedule of the junior
17 driver's activities. Upon termination of the junior driver's
18 activity, event or employment, the junior driver shall
19 surrender the affidavit or certificate to the fire chief,
20 supervisor, school official or employer. If the junior driver
21 shall fail to surrender the affidavit or certificate, the
22 employer, fire chief, school official or supervisor shall
23 immediately notify the Pennsylvania State Police.
24 (3) In addition to the other provisions of this title
25 relating to the suspension or revocation of operating
26 privileges, in the event that a licensed junior driver is
27 involved in an accident reportable under section 3746(a) for
28 which the junior driver is partially or fully responsible in
29 the opinion of the department or is convicted of any
30 violation of this title, the department may suspend the
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1 operating privileges of the junior driver until the junior
2 driver attains 18 years of age or for a period of time not
3 exceeding 90 days.
4 (4) Any junior driver or other person violating any
5 provision of this subsection is guilty of a summary offense.
6 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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