PRINTER'S NO. 4369

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 3149 Session of 1994


        INTRODUCED BY ROBERTS, STURLA, M. N. WRIGHT, MELIO, BELARDI,
           THOMAS, JAROLIN, McCALL, GIGLIOTTI, RICHARDSON, LAUB,
           MICOZZIE, ACOSTA, HENNESSEY, JADLOWIEC, ARGALL, MILLER,
           BELFANTI, STABACK, BEBKO-JONES, WAUGH, WOZNIAK, YOUNGBLOOD,
           PISTELLA, MAYERNIK, LAUGHLIN AND MERRY, NOVEMBER 14, 1994

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, NOVEMBER 14, 1994

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
     2     Statutes, requiring notice of revocation or suspension of
     3     operating privilege to be sent by certified mail.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 1540(b) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
     7  Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     8  § 1540.  Surrender of license.
     9     * * *
    10     (b)  Suspension, revocation or disqualification of operating
    11  privilege.--Upon the suspension or revocation of the operating
    12  privilege or the disqualification of the commercial operating
    13  privilege of any person by the department, the department shall
    14  forthwith notify the person in writing by certified mail at the
    15  address of record to surrender his driver's license to the
    16  department for the term of suspension, revocation or
    17  disqualification. The suspension, revocation or disqualification

     1  shall be effective upon a date determined by the department or
     2  the date of surrender of the license to the department if that
     3  date is subsequent to the department's notice to surrender the
     4  license, whichever occurs first. Upon surrender of the license,
     5  the department shall issue a receipt showing the date that it
     6  received the license.
     7     * * *
     8     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.















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