Larson v. Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission

OPINION OF THE COURT

HUTCHINSON, Justice.

In his capacity as Secretary of Transportation and ex officio member of appellee Commission, appellant, Thomas D. Larson, appeals a Commonwealth Court panel’s order conferring substantially all the Commission’s statutory powers 1 upon its Vice Chairman. The power conferred included power over policy matters subject only to veto of the policy decisions by affirmative vote of the Commission’s other three sitting members.2 The order would continue *474these extraordinary unilateral powers until the Governor nominates and the Senate confirms a person to take…