The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Pennsylvania (statewide: Driver License and Photo License Centers; district and county maintenance offices; construction projects; rest areas and welcome centers) · Pennsylvania
- Level
- State
- Authority
- Governor's mitigation orders (recited); PennDOT regulatory authority for expiration extensions and the Acting Secretary's order on electronic filings
- Issued
- 2020-03-30 Mar. 30, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-16 close of business (Driver License and Photo License Centers closed); 2020-03-17 12:01 a.m. (rest areas); Mar. 16-17, 2020 (maintenance offices; construction suspended); extensions to May 31, 2020 (read as 2020-03-16)
- End
- Construction resumed May 1, 2020 under the Governor's May 1 construction guidance; Driver License Centers began reopening by appointment from May 2020 in yellow-phase counties; extensions rolled forward (to June 30 and later dates); rest areas reopened in stages (read as 2020-05-01)
- In force
- Mar. 16, 2020 to May 1, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Business closureCourts and public officesOther
- Addressees
- driver license, photo ID and CDL holders
- vehicle owners (registration, inspection)
- PennDOT contractors (construction suspended in all counties)
- motorists (rest areas)
- administrative appellants
- Functions reached
- CRT public offices (every driver license center in Pennsylvania closed; CDL and DMV transactions online only)
- HR (CDL renewals, driver exams and medical certification suspended)
- JS job sites (State highway construction suspended in all counties)
- DR drivers (rest areas closed; CDL relief)
- CB customer access (permits, titles and registrations by mail or online only)
- Character
- binding
- Collection
- State transport, ports and transit authorities AGY-ST-TRANSPORT-PORTS-TRANSIT
Operative words
All Driver License Centers and Photo License Centers in Pennsylvania are closed until further notice effective close of business on Monday, March 16.... Driver licenses, photo ID cards and learner's permits scheduled to expire from March 16, 2020 through April 30, 2020, the expiration date is now extended until May 31, 2020.... Yes, for CDLs scheduled to expire from March 16, 2020, through April 30, 2020, the expiration date is now extended until May 31, 2020.... Due to Governor Wolf's statewide COVID-19 mitigation efforts, all PennDOT district and county maintenance offices are closed for two weeks. Additionally, construction projects have been suspended in all counties until further notice.... Some PennDOT rest areas and welcome centers statewide will be closed to the public effective 12:01 AM Tuesday, March 17, 2020.... In response to COVID-19, Acting Secretary Yassmin Gramian has issued an order waiving certain filing restrictions for administrative appeals.
Enforcement
Office closures (no in-person licensing transactions statewide); suspension of all PennDOT construction contracts; regulatory extensions by agency order under the disaster emergency; the Governor's Mar. 19 order penalties (35 Pa.C.S. § 7301; 18 Pa.C.S. § 7501) for non-life-sustaining operations
Notes
The State DOT's consolidated record of the Governor's Mar. 16-19, 2020 orders as applied to licensing, construction and rest areas, with the agency's own regulatory extensions. Implementing rule under orders; also documents the statewide suspension of PennDOT construction (the construction memorandum's Pennsylvania row).
Retrieval noteRendered Wayback capture (Apr. 2, 2020) of penndot.gov/pag... (banner URL truncated); page 'Updated 10:00 a.m. March 30, 2020'. Filename date (Apr. 1) is approximate. Two-column layout interleaves link URLs with the text; the operative sentences are legible.