PRINTER'S NO. 961
No. 842 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY BOOK, HUTCHINSON, CESSAR, GAMBLE, ROBBINS,
MARKOSEK, MAYERNIK, KENNEDY, D. W. SNYDER, BURD, POTT AND
WILSON, APRIL 10, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 10, 1985
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for the seizure of certain
3 registration plates and drivers' licenses.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Sections 1376 and 1540 of Title 75 of the
7 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
8 § 1376. Surrender of registration plates and cards upon
9 suspension.
10 (a) General rule.--The department, upon suspending any
11 registration, shall require the registration plate or plates and
12 registration card to be surrendered immediately to the
13 department and may delegate authority to any authorized
14 department employee [or police officer] to seize the
15 registration plate or plates and registration card or cards.
16 Local police officers shall have the authority to take
17 possession of any registration plate or card which has been
18 suspended. If a local police officer receives notice from a
1 computer-based information system that a person's registration
2 plate or card has been suspended, he shall immediately seize the
3 plate or card. A plate or card seized under this subsection
4 shall be sent immediately to the department.
5 (b) Penalty.--Any person failing or refusing to surrender to
6 the department, upon demand, any registration plate or card
7 which has been suspended is guilty of a summary offense and
8 shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $100.
9 § 1540. Surrender of license.
10 (a) Conviction of offense.--Upon a conviction for any
11 offense which calls for mandatory revocation in accordance with
12 section 1532 (relating to revocation or suspension of operating
13 privilege), the court or the district attorney shall require the
14 surrender of any driver's license then held by the defendant and
15 shall forward the driver's license together with a record of the
16 conviction to the department.
17 (b) Suspension of operating privilege.--Upon the suspension
18 of the operating privilege of any person by the department, the
19 department shall forthwith notify the person in writing to
20 surrender his driver's license to the department for the term of
21 suspension.
22 (c) Seizure of license.--Local police officers shall have
23 the authority to take possession of any driver's license, the
24 surrender of which is required under subsection (a). If a local
25 police officer receives notice from a computer-based information
26 system that a driver's license required to be forwarded to the
27 department has not been received, he shall immediately seize the
28 driver's license. A driver's license seized under this
29 subsection shall be sent immediately to the department.
30 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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