PRINTER'S NO. 1275
No. 1127 Session of 1987
INTRODUCED BY O'BRIEN, HUTCHINSON, DININNI, DeWEESE, FOX AND
GEIST, APRIL 27, 1987
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 27, 1987
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of January 22, 1968 (P.L.42, No.8), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act empowering and authorizing the Department
3 of Transportation to establish and administer certain grant
4 programs for the betterment of mass transportation systems
5 and facilities throughout the Commonwealth; providing for
6 State grants to transportation companies, municipalities,
7 counties, or their instrumentalities and to agencies and
8 instrumentalities of the Commonwealth for studies, research,
9 demonstration programs, promotion programs, purchase of
10 service projects, and capital improvement projects under
11 certain conditions; authorizing grants by counties or
12 municipalities in metropolitan areas to local transportation
13 organizations, authorizing the creation of a transportation
14 authority to function in each metropolitan area consisting of
15 any county of the first class and all nearby counties within
16 a radius of twenty miles of any such first class county, as a
17 body corporate and politic for the purpose of establishing an
18 integrated mass transportation system with all pertinent
19 powers including, but not limited to, leasing, acquiring,
20 owning, operating and maintaining a system for, or otherwise
21 providing for, the transportation of persons, authorizing the
22 borrowing of money and issuance of bonds therefor, conferring
23 the right of eminent domain on the authority; altering the
24 jurisdiction of the Public Utility Commission, authorizing
25 the acceptance of grants from Federal, State and local
26 governments, limiting actions against the authority and
27 exempting it from taxation, authorizing counties and
28 municipalities to enter into compacts for the financing of
29 each authority and to make appropriations in accordance with
30 such compacts, creating a citizen advisory committee,
31 conferring exclusive jurisdiction upon certain courts with
32 respect to matters relating to such authority, empowering
33 each authority to function outside of the metropolitan area
1 under certain terms and conditions," requiring certain
2 transportation authorities to solicit bids for and award
3 contracts for advertising displays.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 303(d) of the act of January 22, 1968
7 (P.L.42, No.8), known as the Pennsylvania Urban Mass
8 Transportation Law, is amended by adding a clause to read:
9 Section 303. Creation of Transportation Authorities; Rights
10 and Powers.--* * *
11 (d) A duly certified authority shall have and may exercise
12 all powers necessary or convenient for the carrying out of the
13 aforesaid purposes, including but without limiting the
14 generality of the foregoing, the following rights or powers:
15 * * *
16 (18.1) To solicit competitive bids for and award contracts
17 to the highest responsible bidder for both interior and exterior
18 advertising on all authority equipment on which the public is
19 charged a fee for ridership. On rail units, only interior
20 advertising bids should be solicited. Any authority which fails
21 to comply with the provisions of this clause shall forfeit all
22 financial assistance from the Commonwealth.
23 * * *
24 Section 2. Each transportation authority shall have 120 days
25 to implement the provisions of section 303(d)(18.1) of the act
26 of January 22, 1968 (P.L.42, No.8), known as the Pennsylvania
27 Urban Mass Transportation Law.
28 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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