PRINTER'S NO. 498
No. 449 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY SCHEAFFER, SPENCER, L. E. SMITH, W. W. FOSTER AND
USTYNOSKI, FEBRUARY 18, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LAW AND JUSTICE, FEBRUARY 18, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, adding provisions relating to the
3 disposition of television tubes.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Chapter 65 of Title 18, act of November 25, 1970
7 (P.L.707, No.230), known as the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes, added December 6 1972 (P.L.1482, No.334), is amended
9 by adding a section to read:
10 CHAPTER 65
11 NUISANCES
12 * * *
13 § 6505. Television sets and tubes.
14 (a) Offense defined.--A person is guilty of a summary
15 offense if he discards or abandons in any place accessible to
16 the public any television picture tube or television set
17 containing any picture tube which has not been neutralized to
18 eliminate the danger of implosion, or if the owner, lessee,
1 manager or person in possession of any place accessible to the
2 public knowingly permits an abandoned or discarded television
3 picture tube or a set containing such a tube to remain in such
4 place without the tube having been neutralized to eliminate the
5 danger of implosion.
6 (b) Other responsibility.--A violation of this section shall
7 not in itself render a person guilty of manslaughter, assault or
8 other crime against a person who may suffer death or injury from
9 implosion of a television picture tube.
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