PRINTER'S NO. 945
No. 783 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY PRESTON, BEBKO-JONES, CALTAGIRONE, CRAHALLA,
GEIST, O'NEILL, READSHAW, STABACK, E. Z. TAYLOR, HARRIS AND
DENLINGER, MARCH 14, 2005
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 14, 2005
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for penalties for violations
3 involving persons with disability plates or placards.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1338(d) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 1338. Person with disability plate and placard.
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10 (d) Penalty.--[Any person violating this section commits a
11 summary offense and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay
12 a fine of not more than $100.]
13 (1) Any person, including a physician, who alters or
14 falsifies a health care provider's statement for a special
15 plate or parking placard for persons with disabilities
16 commits a misdemeanor of the third degree and, upon
17 conviction, for a first offense shall be sentenced to pay a
18 fine of $1,000 or to undergo a term of imprisonment not to
1 exceed 90 days, or both. For a second or subsequent offense
2 of alteration or falsification of a health care provider's
3 statement, the person, including a physician, upon
4 conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than
5 $2,000 or to a term of imprisonment not to exceed 120 days,
6 or both.
7 (2) Any person who violates any provision of this
8 section other than a violation referred to in paragraph (1)
9 commits a summary offense and shall, upon conviction, be
10 sentenced to pay a fine of not more than $500.
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12 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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