PRINTER'S NO. 2709
No. 1950 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY HANNA, BELFANTI, DALEY, FREEMAN, GINGRICH,
HORNAMAN, MAHONEY, SIPTROTH, SOLOBAY, STABACK, J. WHITE AND
YOUNGBLOOD, OCTOBER 23, 2007
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 23, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for authority to arrest or cite outside
3 of State park or forest lands.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
8 § 6314. Authority to arrest or cite outside of State park or
9 forest lands.
10 Individuals appointed and commissioned by the Department of
11 Conservation and Natural Resources to preserve order in the
12 State park or State forest lands are specifically authorized to
13 enforce those provisions of this title which designate
14 violations as summary offenses of operation of an all-terrain
15 vehicle even if the violation occurs outside of State park and
16 State forest lands. The authority to enforce those provisions
17 includes the power to stop vehicles suspected of summary
18 offenses, to issue citations for summary offenses and, if a
1 vehicle is stopped for a suspected summary offense, to make
2 arrests where evidence appears of additional offenses designated
3 as misdemeanors or felonies.
4 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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