THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY LONGIETTI, DeWEESE, KOTIK, MARSHALL, McILVAINE SMITH, PASHINSKI, SIPTROTH, STEVENSON, WHITE, CALTAGIRONE, BAKER, CARROLL, EVERETT, GEORGE, GIBBONS, HARKINS, HARPER, HORNAMAN, KORTZ, MAHONEY, MANN, MELIO, PETRARCA, PRESTON, K. SMITH, SOLOBAY, STURLA, YOUNGBLOOD AND BRENNAN, FEBRUARY 9, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 9, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, in size, weight and load, further providing for

restrictions on use of highways and bridges.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 4902(f) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 4902.  Restrictions on use of highways and bridges.

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(f)  [Actions to be in accordance with department] Department 

regulations.--All actions taken under authority of this section

shall be taken in accordance with department regulations. The

department shall publish a revised schedule of bonding amounts

based on increased or decreased maintenance costs by January 1,

2011, and at least every three years thereafter. Furthermore,

department regulations shall, by January 1, 2011, reflect a

rebuttable presumption in favor of the municipality and against

the over-posted-weight permittee for damage sustained to posted

highways used by such permittee.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.