PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1594 PRINTER'S NO. 3812
No. 1444 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY DALEY, M. N. WRIGHT, PESCI, STISH, CLARK, MELIO,
TRELLO, GEIST, VEON, TOMLINSON, SCHULER, KASUNIC, GIGLIOTTI
AND BATTISTO, APRIL 27, 1993
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JUNE 7, 1994
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for removal of vehicles from limited
3 access highways and for the movement of vehicles after an
4 accident on limited access highways.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
9 § 3355. Removal of vehicle from limited access highway.
10 (a) General rule.--When an authorized department employee
11 finds a vehicle on a limited access highway in violation of
12 section 3353(a)(2)(vii) (relating to prohibitions in specified
13 places), the employee may move or cause the vehicle to be moved
14 to a position off the highway ROADWAY where the vehicle will not <--
15 interfere with the normal movement of traffic on the highway <--
16 ROADWAY, interfere with the maintenance of the highway ROADWAY <--
17 or constitute a safety hazard.
18 (b) Exception.--This section shall not apply when the
1 vehicle has been involved in an accident resulting in serious
2 injury, as defined in section 1702 (relating to definitions), of
3 any person. In this case, the vehicle shall be moved only when
4 directed by a police officer.
5 Section 2. Section 3743(b) of Title 75 is amended and the
6 section is amended by adding a subsection to read:
7 § 3743. Accidents involving damage to attended vehicle or
8 property.
9 * * *
10 (b) Exceptions.--When an accident occurs on a limited access
11 highway or on the ramp, shoulder, median or adjacent area <--
12 SHOULDER OR MEDIAN of a limited access highway, each driver <--
13 shall move his vehicle as soon as possible off the limited
14 access highway or the ramp, shoulder, median or adjacent area <--
15 SHOULDER OR MEDIAN to the first available point so as not to <--
16 impede the normal and reasonable movement of traffic on the
17 limited access highway or constitute a safety hazard.
18 [(b) Penalty.--]
19 (c) Penalties.--
20 (1) Any person violating [this section] subsection (a)
21 is guilty of a summary offense, punishable by a fine of $300
22 or imprisonment for not more than 90 days, or both.
23 (2) Any person violating subsection (b) is guilty of a
24 summary offense, punishable by a fine of $50.
25 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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