PRINTER'S NO. 2834
No. 2057 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY MANN, BEBKO-JONES, BEYER, CALTAGIRONE, COHEN,
FABRIZIO, FREEMAN, GEORGE, GINGRICH, GOODMAN, GRUCELA, JAMES,
KOTIK, MARKOSEK, PISTELLA, SCAVELLO, SOLOBAY, STABACK, SURRA,
TIGUE AND YOUNGBLOOD, OCTOBER 17, 2005
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 17, 2005
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for authority to use flashing or
3 revolving blue lights.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4572(a) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 4572. Visual signals on authorized vehicles.
9 (a) Flashing or revolving blue lights.--Ambulance personnel,
10 volunteer firefighters, certified volunteer search and rescue
11 [scuba divers] organization members and owners and handlers of
12 dogs used in tracking humans may each equip one motor vehicle
13 with no more than two flashing or revolving blue lights.
14 (1) In order to be eligible to display lights on their
15 vehicles under this subsection, the names of the ambulance
16 personnel, volunteer firefighters and certified volunteer
17 search and rescue [scuba divers] organization members shall
1 be submitted to the nearest station of the Pennsylvania State
2 Police on a list signed by the chief of the ambulance or fire
3 department or company, the head of the search and rescue
4 [scuba diving] organization, and each dog owner and handler
5 shall register at the nearest Pennsylvania State Police
6 station.
7 (2) The manner in which the lights are displayed and
8 their intensity shall be determined by regulation of the
9 department.
10 (3) The lights shall be operable by the driver from
11 inside the vehicle.
12 (4) The lights may be used only while en route to or at
13 the scene of a fire or emergency call.
14 (5) The lights shall be removed from the vehicle
15 immediately upon receipt of notice from the chief of the
16 ambulance or fire department or company or the head of the
17 search and rescue [scuba diving] organization to remove the
18 lights upon termination of the person's status as an active
19 volunteer firefighter or ambulance person or upon termination
20 of the person's active status as a certified volunteer search
21 and rescue [diver] organization member or dog owner or
22 handler, or when the vehicle is no longer used in connection
23 with the person's duties as a volunteer firefighter or
24 ambulance person, certified volunteer search and rescue
25 [diver] organization member or dog owner or handler.
26 (6) This subsection does not relieve the driver from the
27 duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons
28 nor exempt the driver from complying with all provisions of
29 this title.
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1 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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