PRINTER'S NO. 3732
No. 2627 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY BISHOP, MANDERINO, SOLOBAY, READSHAW, CAPPABIANCA,
JOSEPHS, YOUNGBLOOD, E. Z. TAYLOR, DeLUCA, PESCI, FRANKEL,
HORSEY, MELIO, M. COHEN AND WILLIAMS, JUNE 13, 2000
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 13, 2000
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for prohibitions in specific
3 areas.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 3353(c) and (e) of Title 75 of the
7 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
8 § 3353. Prohibitions in specified places.
9 * * *
10 (c) Property owner may remove vehicle.--The owner or other
11 person in charge or possession of any property on which a
12 vehicle is parked or left unattended in violation of the
13 provisions of subsection (b) may remove or have removed the
14 vehicle at the reasonable expense of the owner of the vehicle if
15 the maximum towing fee is clearly posted to notify the public.
16 Such person who removes a vehicle left parked or unattended in
17 violation of the provisions of subsection (b) shall have a lien
18 against the owner of the vehicle, in the amount of the
1 reasonable value of the costs of removing the vehicle. Any city,
2 borough, incorporated town or township may, by ordinance,
3 provide for rates to be charged for removal of vehicles and for
4 municipal regulation of authorized towing services. A towing
5 company shall not tow or be permitted to tow a vehicle outside
6 the county in which the violation of subsection (b) occurred.
7 * * *
8 (e) Penalty.--
9 (1) Any person other than a towing service violating any
10 provision of this section is guilty of a summary offense and
11 shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not
12 more than $15.
13 (2) A towing service violating any provision of this
14 section is guilty of misdemeanor of the third degree.
15 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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