PRINTER'S NO. 3659
No. 2750 Session of 1980
INTRODUCED BY POTT (By Request), JUNE 24, 1980
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 24, 1980
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, requiring lighted headlights when it is raining and
3 providing for the tarpaulins or other covers on certain
4 loads.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 4302 of Title 75, act of November 25,
8 1970 (P.L.707, No.230), known as the Pennsylvania Consolidated
9 Statutes, is amended to read:
10 § 4302. Period for requiring lighted lamps.
11 Every vehicle upon a highway at any time between sunset and
12 sunrise, during periods of rain and at any other time when, due
13 to insufficient light or unfavorable atmospheric conditions,
14 persons and vehicles on the highway are not clearly discernible
15 from a distance of 1000 feet ahead shall display lighted head
16 and other lamps and illuminating devices as required under this
17 chapter for different classes of vehicles, subject to exceptions
18 with respect to parked vehicles. Stop lights, turn signals and
1 other signaling devices shall be lighted as prescribed in this
2 title.
3 Section 2. Section 4903 of Title 75 is amended by adding a
4 subsection to read:
5 § 4903. Securing loads in vehicles.
6 * * *
7 (c.1) Tarpaulin or other cover required.--Any vehicle while
8 hauling loads of coal, sand, cinders, gravel, stones, leaves,
9 dirt or other loose materials shall have a tarpaulin or other
10 adequate and suitable cover over the material which shall
11 prevent its dropping, spilling, sifting, blowing or otherwise
12 escaping upon the highway. The driver and registrant of any
13 vehicle that deposits such material on the highway shall be
14 responsible for removing the same.
15 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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