PRINTER'S NO. 3028
No. 2413 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY TANGRETTI, FICHTER, PESCI, LAUB, FAIRCHILD,
M. N. WRIGHT, SATHER, MELIO, VEON, COLAIZZO, M. COHEN AND
CARONE, DECEMBER 15, 1993
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, DECEMBER 15, 1993
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for emergency lights on certain
3 private vehicles and for equipment standards.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4571(b) and (f) of Title 75 of the
7 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
8 § 4571. Visual and audible signals on emergency vehicles.
9 * * *
10 (b) Police, sheriff, fire and coroner or medical examiner
11 vehicles.--
12 (1) Police, sheriff, coroner, medical examiner or fire
13 police vehicles may in addition to the requirements of
14 subsection (a) be equipped with revolving or flashing blue
15 lights. The combination of red and blue lights may be used
16 only on official police, sheriff, coroner, medical examiner
17 or fire police vehicles, except that one fire police captain
18 and one fire police lieutenant of a volunteer fire department
1 may, in addition to the requirements of subsection (a), equip
2 one privately owned vehicle used in answering an emergency
3 call with a combination of red and blue lights. All other
4 privately owned vehicles that may be designated as emergency
5 vehicles under the provisions of this title may only be
6 equipped as provided by subsection (a).
7 (2) Unmarked police and sheriff vehicles, used as
8 emergency vehicles and equipped with audible warning systems,
9 may be equipped with the lights described in this section.
10 (3) Police, sheriff and fire vehicles may be equipped
11 with a mounted rack containing one or more emergency warning
12 lights or side mounted floodlights or alley lights or all
13 such lights.
14 * * *
15 (f) Conformity with department regulations.--All equipment
16 authorized or required by this section shall conform to
17 department regulations. No person shall sell within this
18 Commonwealth for use under this section any equipment that does
19 not conform to department regulations. A warranty of fitness for
20 a particular purpose shall be implied in all contracts for the
21 sale of equipment authorized or required by this section, and
22 this warranty may not be excluded by a person in the business of
23 selling goods of that kind.
24 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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