PRINTER'S NO. 1223
No. 1065 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY ZEARFOSS, RYAN, WORRILOW, LYNCH AND WHITTLESEY,
APRIL 21, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 22, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of January 22, 1968 (P.L.42, No.8), entitled
2 "An act empowering and authorizing the Department of
3 Community Affairs 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," further providing for free local transit
14 service for persons age sixty-five or older.
15 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
16 hereby enacts as follows:
17 Section 1. Clause (5) of section 4, act of January 22, 1968
18 (P.L.42, No.8), known as the "Pennsylvania Urban Mass
19 Transportation Assistance Law of 1967," added December 27, 1972
20 (P.L.1631, No.339), is amended to read:
21 Section 4. Program Authorizations.--The department is hereby
22 authorized, within the limitations hereinafter provided:
23 * * *
24 (5) To make grants to agencies and instrumentalities of the
1 Commonwealth and to municipalities, counties, or their
2 instrumentalities from the State Lottery Fund to pay [estimated]
3 transit losses resulting from granting free service to persons
4 sixty-five years of age or older on common carrier mass
5 transportation systems when such passage is by local public bus,
6 trolley or subway-elevated systems during nonpeak riding hours
7 and on holidays and weekends. "Transit losses" as used in this
8 section shall mean the exact amount in dollars and cents equal
9 to the total of all actually counted individual fares granted
10 free to persons sixty-five years of age or older on such common
11 carrier mass transportation systems as herein provided. The
12 department shall promulgate such rules and regulations as are
13 necessary to carry out the purposes of this clause.
14 In counties where there does not now exist a mass
15 transportation authority the department shall enter into
16 agreements with private carriers, authorized to carry passengers
17 for hire by the Public Utilities Commission to carry out the
18 purposes of this clause.
19 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 30 days.
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