Commonwealth v. Fiedler
Commonwealth v. Fiedler
Opinion of the Court
Opinion by
Appellee, at the time of the violation for which his operator’s license was suspended, i.e., speeding at a rate of seventy (70) miles per hour in a sixty (60) mile an hour zone, was sixteen (16) years of age. He was operating the vehicle under a junior operator’s license as provided in Section 604.1 of The Vehicle Code, Act of April 29, 1959, P. L. 58, as amended, 75 P.S. §604.1. Following the statutory procedure, the Secretary of Transportation suspended the appellee’s junior operator’s license for six months. On appeal, the lower court sustained the appeal and directed the Secretary to reinstate the operator’s privileges and impose points for the violation. The lower court was in error and we must reverse.
Section 604.1 of The Vehicle Code clearly provides in subsection (a) as follows: “. . . the secretary may
Accordingly, the order of the court below is reversed, and the order of the Secretary of Transportation suspending the appellee’s operating privileges is reinstated.
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