PRINTER'S NO. 2379
No. 1828 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY MADIGAN, CESSAR, TRELLO, CIMINI, SIRIANNI, ARTY,
GLADECK, HERMAN AND HERSHEY, DECEMBER 14, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, DECEMBER 14, 1983
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, adding an offense; and providing a penalty.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
6 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
7 § 3736. Operating motor vehicle with radio capable of receiving
8 police communications.
9 (a) General rule.--A person, except a police officer or
10 peace officer acting pursuant to his special duties, shall not
11 equip a motor vehicle with a radio receiving set capable of
12 receiving signals on the frequencies allocated for police use,
13 shall not knowingly use a motor vehicle so equipped or shall not
14 in any way knowingly interfere with the transmission of radio
15 messages by the police without having first secured a permit to
16 do so from the person authorized to issue the permit by the
17 local governing body of a city, borough, incorporated town,
1 township or home rule municipality in which the person resides
2 or, where the person resides in a county having a county police
3 department, by the county commissioners of the county.
4 (b) Exception.--This section is not applicable to any person
5 who holds a valid amateur radio operator's license issued by the
6 Federal Communications Commission and who operates a licensed
7 portable mobile transmitter and, in connection with a
8 transmitter, a receiver or receiving set on frequencies
9 exclusively allocated by the Federal Communications Commission
10 to licensed radio amateurs.
11 (c) Penalty.--A person violating this section commits a
12 misdemeanor of the third degree punishable by imprisonment of
13 not more than six months or a fine of not more than $1,000, or
14 both.
15 Section 2. This act shall apply to offenses committed on and
16 after its effective date.
17 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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