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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
The following words and phrases as used in this act 1 shall have the meanings ascribed to them in this section, unless the context clearly requires otherwise:
(1) “Private driver education or training school” or “school” shall mean a school maintained, classes conducted or instruction offered by any individual, association, partnership or corporation, for a consideration, profit or tuition, the purpose of which is to educate or train an individual or individuals, either practically or theoretically or both, to operate or drive a motor vehicle.
(2) “Agent” shall mean any person, whether employed by a private driver education or training school or operating in his own behalf, or whether acting in behalf of any school located within or outside of this Commonwealth, who shall personally solicit any individual within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to enroll in a school.
(3) “Department” shall mean the Department of Public Instruction. 2
(4) “Motor vehicle” shall mean every motor vehicle, as defined in the act, approved the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred twenty-nine (Pamphlet Laws 905), as amended, known as “The Vehicle Code”. 3
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Pennsylvania Statutes Title 24 P.S. Education § 2831. Definitions - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-24-ps-education/pa-st-sect-24-2831/
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