Commonwealth v. Slott

This case is not controlled by Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Transportation, Bureau of Traffic Safety v. Lewis, 506 Pa. 96, 484 A.2d 370 (1984), which held 75 Pa.C.S. § 15511 applies to discretionary, as well as mandatory license suspensions. The suspension in Lewis was issued pursuant to 75 Pa.C.S. § 1538(c)2 which provides *30for a departmental hearing to determine whether or not a person’s operating privilege should be suspended for not more than thirty days.

The issues in this case (whether a violation of the notice requirement of section 1551 a) constitutes a jurisdictional…