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Pennsylvania Statutes Title 24 P.S. Education § 2842. Conditions on which license granted or operation permitted

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

No private driver education or training school shall be granted a license or shall be permitted to continue to operate under a granted license unless:

(1) It shall permit the department and its representatives to inspect the school or classes, and shall make available to the department, at any time when requested to do so, full information pertaining to any or all items of information contained in the application form which is currently provided by the department to applicants for license.

(2) It shall prominently display the current approved license where it may be inspected by students, visitors and designated officials of the department.

(3) The advertising and representations made by anyone representing the school or classes as an agent or contractual agent to prospective students shall be free from misrepresentation or fraud.

(a) A school shall not use any name, other than its licensed name, for advertising or publicity purposes, nor shall a school advertise or imply that it is “supervised”, “recommended”, “endorsed”, “accredited” or “approved” by the Department of Public Instruction  1 or the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

(b) A school shall not claim or imply that it is endorsed by colleges, universities or other institutions of higher learning, bus companies, trucking associations, automobile clubs or taxi companies, unless written evidence of that fact is presented to the department by the endorsing college, university, bus company, trucking association, automobile club or taxi company.

(c) A school shall not claim or imply that it will guarantee employment upon completion of the course, or guarantee the securing of a license to drive an automobile.

(d) A school shall not by means of “blind” advertisements or advertisements in the “help wanted” or other employment columns of newspapers and other publications solicit prospective students to enroll in the school.

1 Now Department of Education; see 71 P.S. §§ 1037, 1038.
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