PRINTER'S NO. 1255
No. 1114 Session of 1987
INTRODUCED BY FOSTER, BORTNER, BRANDT, BARLEY, SEMMEL, DORR,
B. SMITH, G. SNYDER AND YANDRISEVITS, APRIL 22, 1987
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 22, 1987
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, adding an offense relating to driving on private
3 property; and providing a penalty for the offense.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
8 § 3716. Driving on private property.
9 (a) Offense defined.--A person who willfully drives his
10 vehicle on private property without the consent of the owner or
11 lessor and causes damage to land, crops or other things growing
12 on or attached to land commits a misdemeanor of the third degree
13 and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000
14 or to imprisonment for not more than one year, or both.
15 (b) Suspension of operating privilege.--The operating
16 privilege of a person convicted of violating subsection (a)
17 shall be suspended for a period of 60 days.
18 (c) Restitution.--The court shall order any person convicted
1 of violating subsection (a) to make restitution to any person
2 who incurred financial loss as a result of the defendant's
3 actions which resulted in a charge of violating subsection (a).
4 (d) Impoundment of vehicle.--Law enforcement officials shall
5 impound any vehicle used to commit a violation of subsection (a)
6 pending final disposition of the charge.
7 (e) Exception.--A person shall not be charged with violating
8 subsection (a) where he drove his vehicle on private property
9 under circumstances constituting an emergency.
10 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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