Moreland v. Commonwealth, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing

COLINS, President Judge.

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Driver Licensing (DOT), appeals from the order of the Court of Common Pleas of Allegheny County in which that court sustained Jon Moreland’s (Moreland) statutory appeal of a one-year license suspension imposed under Section 1532(b)(3) of the Vehicle Code (Code), 75 Pa.C.S. § 1532(b)(3),1 because DOT had no authority to suspend the license under the Driver License Compact of 1961 (Compact).

By notice dated March 29, 1996, DOT informed Moreland that as a result of his February 1996 Ohio conviction…