PRINTER'S NO. 745
No. 656 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY D. R. WRIGHT, F. E. TAYLOR, COY, PRATT, COHEN,
PISTELLA, STABACK, OLASZ, GEIST, GREENWOOD, VROON AND
SCHEETZ, MARCH 25, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 25, 1985
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for the use of studded tires by
3 emergency vehicles.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4525(c) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 4525. Tire equipment and traction surfaces.
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10 (c) Ice grips and tire studs.--Tires in which ice grips or
11 tire studs of wear resisting material have been installed which
12 provide resiliency upon contact with the road and which have
13 projections not exceeding two thirty-seconds of an inch beyond
14 the tread of the traction surface of the tire shall be permitted
15 between November 1 of each year and April 15 of the following
16 year. Emergency vehicles may be equipped between November 1 of
17 each year and May 31 of the following year with tires containing
18 ice grips or tire studs which conform to this subsection. The
1 Governor may by executive order extend the time tires with ice
2 grips or tire studs may be used when highway conditions are such
3 that such tires would be a safety factor in traveling
4 Commonwealth highways. The use of tires with ice grips or tire
5 studs contrary to the provisions of this subsection shall be
6 unlawful.
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8 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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