PRINTER'S NO. 250
No. 245 Session of 1981
INTRODUCED BY STEWART, D. R. WRIGHT, HOEFFEL, LETTERMAN,
KUKOVICH, BURNS, COHEN, WOZNIAK, FLECK, PENDLETON, PISTELLA,
DAWIDA, STEIGHNER, MURPHY, SEVENTY, MICHLOVIC, PETRONE,
O'DONNELL, WILSON, SWAIM, CLYMER, FISCHER, MICHLOVIC,
MICOZZIE, LUCYK, WHITE, HALUSKA, LEVIN, CORNELL, MRKONIC,
BLAUM, RITTER, ZWIKL, ITKIN, WAMBACH, VAN HORNE AND
COLAFELLA, JANUARY 27, 1981
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 27, 1981
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for annual inspection of passenger cars.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 4702 of Title 75, act of November 25,
6 1970 (P.L.707, No.230), known as the Pennsylvania Consolidated
7 Statutes, subsection (a) amended June 18, 1980 (No.67), is
8 amended to read:
9 § 4702. Requirement for periodic inspection of vehicles.
10 (a) General rule.--The department shall establish a system
11 of semiannual inspection of vehicles registered in this
12 Commonwealth and mass transit vehicles operated in this
13 Commonwealth.
14 (b) Annual inspection of certain vehicles.--Recreational
15 trailers, passenger cars, vehicles registered as antique and
1 classic vehicles, firefighting vehicles and motorcycles shall be
2 subject to annual inspection.
3 (c) Inspection of vehicles reentering this Commonwealth.--
4 Owners of Pennsylvania registered vehicles which have been
5 outside of this Commonwealth continuously for 30 days or more
6 and which at the time of reentering this Commonwealth do not
7 bear a currently valid certificate of inspection and approval
8 shall, within five days of reentering this Commonwealth, proceed
9 to an official inspection station for an inspection of the
10 vehicle.
11 (d) Extension of inspection period.--The department may, by
12 regulation, extend the time for any of the inspections required
13 by this chapter for not more than 30 days due to weather
14 conditions or other causes which render compliance with the
15 provisions of this chapter within the prescribed time difficult
16 or impossible.
17 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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