Sanders v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1985
Citation profile
5
cited by 5 later decisions
1
states following
September 1994
most recently cited
5 state decisions
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“(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 has accumulated the requisite number of convictions for the separate and distinct offenses described arid enumerated in subsection (b) committed after the effective date of this title [Title 75] and within any period of five years thereafter. (b) Offenses enumerated. — Three convictions arising from separate acts of any one or more of the following offenses committed either singularly or in combination by any person shall result in such person being designated as a habitual offender: (1) Any offense set forth in section 1532 (relating to revocation or suspension of operating privilege). (c) Accelerative Rehabilitative Disposition as an offense. — Acceptance of Accelerative Rehabilitative Disposition for any offense enumerated in subsection (b) shall be considered an offense for the purposes of this section. (d) Period of revocation. — The operating privilege of any person found to be a habitual offender under the provisions of this section shall be revoked by the department for a period of five years. (Emphasis added.) Here, the record indicates that Cern was convicted twice under Section 3731 of the Code, 75 Pa.C.S. § 3731, for driving under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance and on”
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