PRINTER'S NO. 2620
No. 1994 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY HARHART, BASTIAN, CAPPELLI, CASORIO, L. I. COHEN,
COLEMAN, CREIGHTON, DiGIROLAMO, HERSHEY, HORSEY, MELIO,
NAILOR, SOLOBAY, STERN, E. Z. TAYLOR, WATSON, C. WILLIAMS AND
YOUNGBLOOD, OCTOBER 5, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 5, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for driving while operating
3 privilege is suspended or revoked.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1543(b) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 1543. Driving while operating privilege is suspended or
9 revoked.
10 * * *
11 (b) Certain offenses.--
12 (1) Any person who drives a motor vehicle on any highway
13 or trafficway of this Commonwealth at a time when their
14 operating privilege is suspended or revoked as a condition of
15 acceptance of Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition for a
16 violation of section 3731 (relating to driving under
17 influence of alcohol or controlled substance) or because of a
1 violation of section 1547(b)(1) (relating to suspension for
2 refusal) or 3731 or suspended under section 1581 (relating to
3 Driver's License Compact) for an offense substantially
4 similar to a violation of section 3731 shall, upon
5 conviction, be guilty of a summary offense and shall be
6 sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 and to undergo imprisonment
7 for a period of not less than [90] 180 days.
8 (2) This subsection shall apply to any person against
9 whom one of these suspensions has been imposed whether the
10 person is currently serving this suspension or whether the
11 effective date of suspension has been deferred under any of
12 the provisions of section 1544 (relating to additional period
13 of revocation or suspension). This provision shall also apply
14 until the person has had the operating privilege restored.
15 This subsection shall also apply to any revocation imposed
16 pursuant to section 1542 (relating to revocation of habitual
17 offender's license) if any of the enumerated offenses was for
18 a violation of section 3731 or for an out-of-State offense
19 that is substantially similar to a violation of section 3731
20 for which a revocation is imposed under section 1581.
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22 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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