75 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 15 - Licensing Of Drivers
Subchapter A. General Provisions
- Section 1501 - Drivers Required To Be Licensed
(a) General rule.--No person, except those expressly exempted, shall drive any motor vehicle upon a highway or public property in this Commonwealth unless the...
- Section 1502 - Persons Exempt From Licensing
The following persons are not required to obtain a driver's license under this chapter: (1) Any employee of the Federal Government while operating a...
- Section 1503 - Persons Ineligible For Licensing; License Issuance To Minors; Junior Driver's License
(a) Persons ineligible for licensing.--The department shall not issue a driver's license to, or renew the driver's license of, any person: (1) Whose operating...
- Section 1504 - Classes Of Licenses
(a) Proper class of license required.--No person shall drive any motor vehicle upon a highway in this Commonwealth unless the person has a valid...
- Section 1505 - Learners' Permits
(a) General rule.--A person who desires to obtain a driver's license or who desires to be licensed in a class for which the person...
- Section 1506 - Application For Driver's License Or Learner's Permit
(a) Form and content.--Every application for a learner's permit or driver's license shall be made upon a form furnished by the department and shall...
- Section 1507 - Application For Driver's License Or Learner's Permit By Minor
(a) Signature of parent or guardian.--The application of any person under the age of 18 years for a learner's permit or driver's license shall...
- Section 1508 - Examination Of Applicant For Driver's License
(a) General rule.--Every applicant for a driver's license shall be examined for the type or class of vehicles that the applicant desires to drive....
- Section 1508.1 - Physical Examinations
(a) Authorization to conduct examinations.--The department shall promulgate regulations to authorize specific classes of licensed practitioners of the healing arts, to include, but not...
- Section 1509 - Qualifications For School Bus Driver Endorsement
(a) School bus driver requirements.--No person shall be issued an endorsement to operate a school bus unless the person: (1) has successfully completed a...
- Section 1510 - Issuance And Content Of Driver's License
(a) General rule.--The department shall, upon payment of the required fee, issue to every qualified applicant a driver's license indicating the type or general...
- Section 1511 - Carrying And Exhibiting Driver's License On Demand
(a) General rule.--Every licensee shall possess a driver's license issued to the licensee at all times when driving a motor vehicle and shall exhibit...
- Section 1512 - Restrictions On Drivers' Licenses
(a) General rule.--The department upon issuing a driver's license shall have authority whenever good cause appears to impose restrictions suitable to the licensee's driving...
- Section 1513 - Duplicate And Substitute Drivers' Licenses And Learners' Permits
(a) General rule.--If a learner's permit or driver's license issued under the provisions of this chapter is mutilated, lost, stolen, destroyed or becomes illegible,...
- Section 1514 - Expiration And Renewal Of Drivers' Licenses
(a) General rule.--Every driver's license shall expire on the day after the licensee's birthdate at intervals of not more than four years as may...
- Section 1515 - Notice Of Change Of Name Or Address
(a) Driver's license.--Whenever any person after applying for or receiving a driver's license moves from the address named in the application or in the...
- Section 1516 - Department Records
(a) Applications, suspensions and revocations.--The department shall file every application for a license received by it and shall maintain suitable records containing: (1) All...
- Section 1517 - Medical Advisory Board
(a) Membership.--There shall be a Medical Advisory Board consisting of 13 members appointed by the secretary. The board shall be composed of an authorized...
- Section 1518 - Reports On Mental Or Physical Disabilities Or Disorders
(a) Definition of disorders and disabilities.--The Medical Advisory Board shall define disorders characterized by lapses of consciousness or other mental or physical disabilities affecting...
- Section 1519 - Determination Of Incompetency
(a) General rule.--The department, having cause to believe that a licensed driver or applicant may not be physically or mentally qualified to be licensed,...
- Section 1520 - Acknowledgment Of Littering Provisions
On every application for a learner's permit or driver's license, the following statement shall be printed immediately above or below the signature of the...
Subchapter B. Comprehensive System for Driver Education and Control
- Section 1531 - Administration Of System By Department
The department shall administer an integrated system limited to the authority granted to the department in this title for revocation and suspension of operating...
- Section 1532 - Suspension Of Operating Privilege
(a) One-year suspension.--The department shall suspend the operating privilege of any driver for one year upon receiving a certified record of the driver's conviction...
- Section 1533 - Suspension Of Operating Privilege For Failure To Respond To Citation
(a) Violations within Commonwealth.--The department shall suspend the operating privilege of any person who has failed to respond to a citation or summons to...
- Section 1534 - Notice Of Acceptance Of Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition
(a) General rule.--Except as provided in subsection (b), if a person is arrested for any offense enumerated in section 1532 (relating to revocation or...
- Section 1535 - Schedule Of Convictions And Points
(a) General rule.--A point system for driver education and control is hereby established which is related to other provisions for use, suspension and revocation...
- Section 1536 - Notice Of Assignment Of Points
Whenever points are assigned to a driver's record, the department shall send to that person at his last known address a letter of notice...
- Section 1537 - Removal Of Points
(a) General rule.--Points recorded against any person shall be removed at the rate of three points for each 12 consecutive months in which such...
- Section 1538 - School, Examination Or Hearing On Accumulation Of Points Or Excessive Speeding
(a) Initial accumulation of six points.--When any person's record for the first time shows as many as six points, the department shall require the...
- Section 1539 - Suspension Of Operating Privilege On Accumulation Of Points
(a) General rule.--When any person's record shows an accumulation of 11 points or more, the department shall suspend the operating privilege of the person...
- Section 1540 - Surrender Of License
(a) Conviction of offense.--Upon a conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction for any offense which calls for mandatory suspension in accordance with section...
- Section 1541 - Period Of Disqualification, Revocation Or Suspension Of Operating Privilege
(a) Commencement of period.--The period of disqualification, revocation or suspension of the operating privilege or the disqualification of the commercial operating privilege shall commence...
- Section 1542 - Revocation Of Habitual Offender's License
(a) General rule.--The department shall revoke the operating privilege of any person found to be a habitual offender pursuant to the provisions of this...
- Section 1543 - Driving While Operating Privilege Is Suspended Or Revoked
(a) Offense defined.--Except as provided in subsection (b), any person who drives a motor vehicle on any highway or trafficway of this Commonwealth after...
- Section 1544 - Additional Period Of Revocation Or Suspension
(a) Additional point accumulation.--When any person's record shows an accumulation of additional points during a period of suspension or revocation, the department shall extend...
- Section 1545 - Restoration Of Operating Privilege
Upon the restoration of any person's operating privilege which has been suspended or revoked pursuant to this subchapter or pursuant to Chapter 38 (relating...
- Section 1546 - Suspension Or Revocation Of Nonresident's Operating Privilege
(a) General rule.--The privilege of driving a motor vehicle on the highways of this Commonwealth given to a nonresident shall be subject to suspension...
- Section 1547 - Chemical Testing To Determine Amount Of Alcohol Or Controlled Substance
(a) General rule.--Any person who drives, operates or is in actual physical control of the movement of a vehicle in this Commonwealth shall be...
- Section 1548 - Requirements For Driving Under Influence Offenders
(a) Evaluation using Court Reporting Network.--(Deleted by amendment). (b) Attendance at alcohol highway safety school.--(Deleted by amendment). (c) Results of evaluation.--(Expired). (d) Order for...
- Section 1549 - Establishment Of Schools
(a) Driver improvement schools.--The department is authorized to establish and maintain driver improvement schools throughout this Commonwealth. The department may approve and conduct an...
- Section 1550 - Judicial Review
(a) General rule.--Any person who has been denied a driver's license, whose driver's license has been canceled, whose commercial driver's license designation has been...
- Section 1551 - Notice Of Department Action
The department shall promptly mail a notice to each person whose license is suspended as a result of the accumulation of points under section...
- Section 1552 - Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition
The court of common pleas in each judicial district and the Municipal Court of Philadelphia shall establish and implement a program for Accelerated Rehabilitative...
- Section 1553 - Occupational Limited License
(a) Issuance.-- (1) The department shall issue an occupational limited license under the provisions of this section to a driver whose operating privileges have...
- Section 1554 - Probationary License
(a) Issuance.--Unless otherwise prohibited under any other provision in this section, the department may issue a probationary license under this section to: (1) a...
- Section 1555 - Delay Of Suspension, Revocation Or Disqualification
(a) General rule.--Upon receiving certification that a person has filed a timely appeal from a criminal conviction that has caused the department to issue...
Subchapter C. Violations
Subchapter D. Driver's License Compact
Last modified: October 8, 2016