PRINTER'S NO. 2595
No. 1888 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY PETRONE, BELFANTI, BIANCUCCI, BLACKWELL, BOBACK,
CREIGHTON, FABRIZIO, FRANKEL, GRUCELA, HARKINS, HENNESSEY,
JOSEPHS, KORTZ, KOTIK, KULA, MAHONEY, MANN, McILVAINE SMITH,
MUSTIO, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, SOLOBAY, SWANGER AND YOUNGBLOOD,
OCTOBER 4, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 4, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, in rules of the road in general, further providing
3 for special speed limitations.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 3365(b) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 3365. Special speed limitations.
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10 (b) School zones.--
11 (1) When passing through a school zone as defined and
12 established under regulations of the department, no person
13 shall drive a vehicle at a speed greater than 15 miles per
14 hour. An official traffic-control device shall indicate the
15 beginning and end of each school zone to traffic approaching
16 in each direction. Establishment of a school zone, including
17 its location and hours of operation, shall be approved by the
1 department.
2 (2) The department shall approve and establish a school
3 zone for any educational or child-care facility that was a
4 former school and that otherwise satisfies the requirements
5 of a school zone under the regulations of the department
6 applicable to schools.
7 (3) For purposes of this subsection, a school includes
8 any grade between pre-kindergarten through grade 12,
9 inclusive.
10 * * *
11 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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