PRINTER'S NO. 45
No. 43 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY LLOYD, HALUSKA, GIGLIOTTI, BUNT, JOHNSON, STABACK,
E. Z. TAYLOR, HAGARTY, WOZNIAK, VROON, BATTISTO, HERMAN,
NOYE, CAWLEY, STUBAN, DISTLER, VAN HORNE, ITKIN, GODSHALL,
COLAIZZO AND MERRY, JANUARY 18, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 18, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further regulating surrender of registration plates
3 and cards.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1376 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 1376. Surrender of registration plates and cards upon
9 suspension or voluntarily.
10 (a) General rule.--The department, upon suspending any
11 registration, shall require the registration plate or plates and
12 registration card to be surrendered immediately to the
13 department and may delegate authority to any authorized
14 department employee, member of the Pennsylvania State Police or
15 local police officer to seize the registration plate or plates
16 and registration card or cards. The department shall, by
17 regulation, prescribe the manner of selecting the employees and
1 State and local police officers to seize the registration plates
2 and registration cards.
3 (b) Voluntary surrender.--In addition to surrendering the
4 registration plate and registration card in accordance with
5 subsection (a), a person may cancel any insurance policy which
6 satisfied the financial responsibility requirements of Chapter
7 17 (relating to financial responsibility) and may voluntarily
8 surrender the registration plate and registration card for the
9 vehicle or vehicles covered by that policy to an insurance agent
10 or a notary public if that insurance agent or that notary public
11 has been authorized by the department to receive voluntarily
12 surrendered registration plates and registration cards. An
13 authorized insurance agent or an authorized notary public shall
14 return a voluntarily surrendered registration plate and
15 registration card to the person who surrendered them upon proof
16 of financial responsibility as required by Chapter 17. The
17 department shall, by regulation, establish a procedure for an
18 insurance agent and a notary public to obtain authorization to
19 accept, hold and return voluntarily surrendered registration
20 plates and registration cards in accordance with this
21 subsection.
22 [(b)] (c) Penalty.--Any person failing or refusing to
23 surrender to the department, upon demand, any registration plate
24 or card which has been suspended [is guilty of] or failing to
25 surrender voluntarily any registration plate or card in
26 accordance with subsection (b) commits a summary offense and
27 shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $100.
28 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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