THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

INTRODUCED BY SOLOBAY, FONTANA, BROWNE, FERLO AND WASHINGTON, JUNE 23, 2011

REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 23, 2011  

AN ACT

Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, further providing for speed timing devices.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 3368(d) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 3368.  Speed timing devices.

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(d)  Classification, approval and testing of mechanical,

electrical and electronic devices.--The department may, by

regulation, classify specific devices as being mechanical,

electrical or electronic. All mechanical, electrical or

electronic devices shall be of a type approved by the

department, which shall appoint stations for calibrating and

testing the devices and may prescribe regulations as to the

manner in which calibrations and tests shall be made. The

certification and calibration of electronic devices under

subsection (c)(3) shall also include the certification and

calibration of all equipment, timing strips and other devices

which are actually used with the particular electronic device

being certified and calibrated. Electronic devices commonly

referred to as electronic speed meters or radar shall have been

tested for accuracy within a period of one year prior to the

alleged violation. Other devices shall have been tested for

accuracy within a period of [60 days] six months prior to the

alleged violation. A certificate from the station showing that

the calibration and test were made within the required period

and that the device was accurate shall be competent and prima

facie evidence of those facts in every proceeding in which a

violation of this title is charged.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 90 days.