PRINTER'S NO. 4504
No. 2817 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY MARSHALL, BELFANTI, BENNINGHOFF, CREIGHTON,
EVERETT, GILLESPIE, GODSHALL, HARHART, HENNESSEY, HORNAMAN,
KENNEY, KORTZ, MUSTIO, PETRONE, PYLE AND SIPTROTH,
OCTOBER 6, 2008
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY,
OCTOBER 6, 2008
AN ACT
1 Requiring certain buses to operate by natural gas.
2 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
3 hereby enacts as follows:
4 Section 1. Short title.
5 This act shall be known and may be cited as the Pennsylvania
6 Public Transportation and Natural Gas Act.
7 Section 2. Definitions.
8 The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
9 have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
10 context clearly indicates otherwise:
11 "Bus." A motor vehicle designed for carrying 15 or more
12 passengers, exclusive of the driver, and used for the
13 transportation of persons, and a motor vehicle, other than a
14 taxicab, designed and used for the transportation of persons for
15 compensation.
16 "Fixed-route public transportation services." Regularly
1 scheduled transportation that is available to the general public
2 and is provided according to published schedules along
3 designated published routes with specified stopping points for
4 the taking on and discharging of passengers, including public
5 buses. The term does not include commuter rail systems,
6 exclusive ride taxi services, charter or sightseeing services,
7 nonpublic transportation or school bus or limousine services.
8 "Natural gas." Gas issued from the Earth's crust through
9 natural openings or bored wells and that is typically a
10 combustible mixture of methane and other hydrocarbons used
11 chiefly as a fuel and raw material. The term includes both
12 compressed and liquefied forms of natural gas.
13 Section 3. New bus requirements.
14 An operator of fixed-route public transportation services in
15 this Commonwealth shall, when removing an older bus from such
16 service, replace the older bus with a model using natural gas as
17 its fuel source.
18 Section 4. Effective date.
19 This act shall take effect in 60 days or January 1, 2009,
20 whichever is later.
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