Title 75, VEHICLES

(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 is not already licensed shall apply to the department for the class or classes of license in which the person desires to be licensed. The department …

(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 contain such information as the department may require to determine the applicant's identity, competency and eligibility. The form m…

(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 also be signed by the father, mother, guardian or person in loco parentis which signature shall be verified before a person authorized to…

(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. The examination shall include a physical examination, a screening test of the applicant's eyesight and a test of the applicant's abil…

(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 be limited to, physicians, chiropractors, physician assistants and certified registered nurse p…

(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 course of instruction as provided in subsection (c); (2) has satisfactorily passed a physical examination to be given in accor…

(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 class of vehicles the licensee is authorized to drive and any endorsements or restrictions, which license, except as pro…

(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 the license upon demand by a police officer, and when requested by the police officer the licensee shall write the licensee's name…

(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 ability with respect to special mechanical control devices required on a motor vehicle which the licensee m…

(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, the person to whom it was issued, upon furnishing proof satisfactory to the department that the license or permit h…

(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 be determined by the department. Every license shall be renewable on or before its expiration upon application, payment of the required…

(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 driver's license issued or when the name of a licensee is changed, such person shall, within 15 days thereafter, notify the depa…

(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 applications denied and the reasons for denial. (2) All applications granted. (3) The name of every lic…

(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 representative from the Department of Transportation, Department of Justice, Governor's Council on Drug and Alcohol Abuse, De…

(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 the ability of a person to drive safely for the purpose of the reports required by this sec…

(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, may require the applicant or driver to undergo one or more of the examinations authorized under this subchapter in order to d…

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 applicant: I hereby acknowledge this day that I have received notice of the provisions of section 3709 of the Vehicle Code. Al…

The department shall administer an integrated system limited to the authority granted to the department in this title for revocation and suspension of operating privileges and for driver education, testing and control and for this purpose shall maintain a record as to every drive…

(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 of or an adjudication of delinquency based on any of the following offenses: (1) Any felony in the commission of …

(a) Violations within Commonwealth.--The department shall suspend the operating privilege of any person who, upon being duly notified by an issuing authority or a court of competent jurisdiction of this Commonwealth, has failed to take any of the following actions: (1) Respond to…

(a) Acceptance notice.--Except as provided in subsection (b), if a person is arrested for any offense enumerated in section 1532 (relating to revocation or suspension of operating privilege) and is offered and accepts Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition under general rules, th…

(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 of the operating privilege as specified under this title. Every driver licensed in this Commonwealth who is convicted o…

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 pointing out the fact and emphasizing the nature and effects of the point system. Failure to receive such letter shall not prevent the suspensi…

(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 person is not under suspension or revocation or has not committed any violation which results in the assignment of points or in suspensi…

(a) Initial accumulation of six points.-- (1) When any person's record for the first time shows an accumulation of six or more points, the department shall require the person to attend a driver improvement school or undergo a special examination and shall so notify the person in …

(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 as provided in subsection (b). (b) Duration of suspension.--The first suspension shall be for a period of 5 days for each poi…

(a) Conviction of offense.--Upon a conviction by a court of competent jurisdiction for an offense which calls for mandatory suspension of an individual's operating privilege, the court or the district attorney shall inform the defendant that the suspension shall be effective with…

(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 as provided for in section 1540 (relating to surrender of license), except for the suspens…

(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. A "habitual offender" shall be any person whose driving record, as maintained in the department, shows that such person…

(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 the commencement of a suspension, revocation or cancellation of the operating privilege and before the operating privilege has…

(a) First offense.--A person who drives a motor vehicle on any highway or trafficway of this Commonwealth at a time when the person's operating privilege is suspended under section 1532(b)(2) (relating to suspension of operating privilege) or 1533 (relating to suspension of opera…

(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 the existing period of suspension or revocation at the rate of five days for each additional point and …

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 to driving after imbibing alcohol or utilizing drugs), such person's record shall show five points, except that any additio…

(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 or revocation by the department in like manner and for like cause as a resident's operating privilege. (b) Transmitting departmen…

(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 deemed to have given consent to one or more chemical tests of breath or blood for the purpose of determining the alcoholic content of blo…

(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 alcohol or drug commitment.--(Expired). (e) Costs.--(Expired). (f) Court-ordered i…

(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 annual review of the course material for the schools. The curriculum to be presented must be …

(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 removed or whose operating privilege has been recalled, suspended, revoked or disqualified by the department shal…

The department shall promptly mail a notice to each person whose license is suspended as a result of the accumulation of points under section 1539 (relating to suspension of operating privilege on accumulation of points). The notice shall be mailed to the address of record within…

The court of common pleas in each judicial district and the Municipal Court of Philadelphia shall establish and implement a program for Accelerated Rehabilitative Disposition for persons charged with a violation of section 3802 (relating to driving under influence of alcohol or c…

(a) Issuance.-- (1) The department shall issue an occupational limited license under the provisions of this section to a driver whose operating privileges have been suspended for a violation of this title, except for an offense under section 3802 (relating to driving under influe…

(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 person who has been designated as a habitual offender under section 1542 (relating to revocation of habitual offender…

(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 a notice of suspension, revocation or disqualification, the department may delay commencement of the suspension, revocation o…

2026 Repeal. Section 1556 was repealed July 20, 2026, P.L.436, No.36, effective in 16 months.

(a) Restoration.--The department may restore the operating privileges of individuals from operating privilege suspensions imposed under any of the following: (1) Section 1532(b) (relating to suspension of operating privilege). (2) Section 1533(a), (b) or (d) (relating to suspensi…

(a) Form.--An eligible individual who seeks to participate in the Relief from Administrative Suspension Program shall respond to the court or issuing authority in conformance with the instructions in a restoration requirements letter. The department shall provide a restoration re…