Howard v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation

OPINION BY

Senior Judge QUIGLEY.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation (DOT), has filed a preliminary objection to the pro se original jurisdiction petition for review filed by Harold Howard (Howard). Howard seeks an order of Court requiring DOT to reinstate his operating privilege where DOT suspended his driver’s license for failure to submit to chemical testing pursuant to Section 1547 of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa.C.S. § 1547, often called the Implied Consent Law. We agree with DOT that Howard failed to exhaust his statutory remedy and, therefore, sustain the…