Bill Information

An Act amending Titles 18 (Crimes and Offenses) and 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, providing for stripping abandoned vehicles; further providing for definitions, for vehicles destroyed, dismantled, salvaged or recycled, for suspension of operating privilege and for abandonment and stripping of vehicles; providing for civil liability for abandonment of vehicles, for reports to department of possession of abandoned and derelict vehicles, for reports and removal of abandoned vehicles within the boundaries of a city of the first class, for notice to owner and lienholders of abandoned and derelict vehicles, for payment of costs upon reclaiming vehicle, for public sale of unclaimed vehicles with value, for disposal of unclaimed vehicles and for restrictions on public sale of unclaimed vehicles; further providing for salvaging of derelict vehicles; providing for local authority to remove abandoned vehicles, for rights of property owners and residents, for abandoned and derelict vehicles on vacant, abandoned or other lots and for repeat abandoned vehicles; and adding provisions relating to derelict vehicles.