PRINTER'S NO. 1241
No. 1118 Session of 1981
INTRODUCED BY SAURMAN, COCHRAN, ARTY, MERRY, JACKSON, DAIKELER,
BOYES, CLYMER, CESSAR, NAHILL, CORNELL, MRKONIC, SHUPNIK,
GLADECK, HAGARTY, SNYDER, CALTAGIRONE, CLARK, McMONAGLE,
PETRONE, HORGOS, DUFFY, RIEGER, OLIVER, A. C. FOSTER, JR.
AND WESTON, APRIL 1, 1981
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 1, 1981
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for the confiscation of certain driver's
3 licenses.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1540 of Title 75, act of November 25,
7 1970 (P.L.707, No.230), known as the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes, is amended to read:
9 § 1540. Surrender and confiscation 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
1 of the operating privilege of any person by the department, the
2 department shall forthwith notify the person in writing to
3 surrender his driver's license to the department for the term of
4 suspension.
5 (c) Confiscation of license.--
6 (1) In addition to any other authorized method by which
7 the department may reacquire cancelled, revoked or suspended
8 driver's licenses, a police officer who has lawfully
9 requested the exhibition of a driver's license pursuant to
10 section 1511 (relating to carrying and exhibiting driver's
11 license on demand) shall, upon verifying with the department
12 that the license has been cancelled, revoked or suspended,
13 confiscate the license and forward it directly to the
14 department.
15 (2) The department shall by regulation establish
16 procedures for police officers to verify the status of
17 driver's licenses and shall not authorize the confiscation of
18 any license unless all the procedural requirements for
19 cancellation, revocation or suspension have been satisfied.
20 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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