16 Pa. Stat. § 5182

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92

Section 5182 - Inspection by county commissioners; refusal or revocation of transportation license

Upon receipt of an application for a transportation license in respect of any vehicle, the county commissioners shall cause to be made such inspection thereof as they shall consider necessary, and if satisfied that the vehicle is properly equipped and suitable for the purpose and that the rules and regulations of the county commissioners have been and will be complied with, shall issue a transportation license in respect of such vehicle, upon the payment of a license fee as follows:

(a) If the applicant for the transportation license is the licensee under a plant license for a garbage disposal plant situated within the county where the application for the transportation license is made, the transportation license fee shall be one dollar ($1).

(b) If the applicant for the transportation license is not the licensee under any plant license from the county, but the garbage which the applicant proposes to transport originates upon the applicant's own premises as an incident only of the prosecution of another business in which the applicant is principally engaged, the transportation license fee shall be five dollars ($5).

(c) If the applicant for a transportation license is a municipality, the transportation license shall be issued without the payment of a fee. No license, however, shall be required for a municipality to transport garbage solely within its own boundaries.

(d) In all other cases, the transportation license fee shall be ten dollars ($10).

All transportation licenses issued by the county commissioners under this act shall expire on the first day of June next following the date on which issued, unless sooner revoked or suspended, shall be in a form prescribed by the county commissioners, shall not be transferable from one person to another, shall not be transferable from one vehicle to another, except by action of the board of county commissioners, which action shall be evidenced by the issuance of a new license certificate properly describing the vehicle to which the license is transferred, after surrender of the old license certificate, and may be renewed from year to year upon application and payment of the license fee as in the procurement of an original license. Applications for renewal of transportation licenses shall be mailed to license holders by the county commissioners at least thirty days before the expiration date of such licenses.

The county commissioners may refuse to grant a transportation license or may suspend or revoke such a license if the applicant or licensee does not meet, observe or conform to the requirements of this act and the rules and regulations of the county commissioners authorized by this act. Before the county commissioners shall refuse to grant such a license or shall suspend or revoke a license, they shall afford the applicant or licensee an opportunity to be heard, and shall give at least five days' written notice of the hearing to the applicant or licensee by registered letter addressed to the applicant or licensee at the address set forth in the application.

16 P.S. § 5182

1953, July 28, P.L. 723, art. XXI, § 2182.