THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY DENLINGER, BOYD, HICKERNELL, CUTLER, BARRAR, BROOKS, CALTAGIRONE, CAUSER, D. COSTA, COX, DAVIS, EVERETT, FLECK, GEIST, GEORGE, GIBBONS, GILLEN, GINGRICH, HARRIS, HESS, KAUFFMAN, KAVULICH, M. K. KELLER, KULA, LAWRENCE, LONGIETTI, MASSER, MILLARD, MOUL, MURT, M. O'BRIEN, PAYNE, PETRARCA, PYLE, RAPP, READSHAW, REICHLEY, ROCK, SCAVELLO, STEVENSON, SWANGER, TOEPEL AND YOUNGBLOOD, JUNE 2, 2011

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 2, 2011  

AN ACT

Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, providing for special farmland preservation

registration plates and for the use of a portion of the fee

for the plate.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:

§ 1366.  Farmland preservation registration plate.

(a)  Plate.--The department, in consultation with the Bureau

of Farmland Preservation, shall design a special farmland

preservation registration plate. Upon application of any person,

accompanied by a fee of $35 which shall be in addition to the

annual registration fee, the department shall issue the plate

for a passenger car or other vehicle with a registered gross

weight of not more than 9,000 pounds.

(b)  Use of fee.--Of each fee paid under subsection (a), $15

shall be deposited into the Agricultural Conservation Easement

Purchase Fund established under the act of June 30, 1981

(P.L.128, No.43), known as the Agricultural Area Security Law,

to preserve farmland in Pennsylvania.

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