Bill Information

An Act amending Titles 74 (Transportation) and 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the distribution of asset maintenance funds; authorizing the creation of a transportation authority to function in each metropolitan area consisting of any county of the first class and all nearby counties within a radius of 20 miles of any such first class county, as a body corporate and politic and as an agency and instrumentality of the Commonwealth for the purpose of establishing an integrated mass transportation system with all pertinent powers, including, but not limited to, leasing, acquiring, owning, operating and maintaining a system for or otherwise providing for the transportation of persons; authorizing the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds therefor and conferring the right of eminent domain on such an authority; altering the jurisdiction of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission; authorizing the acceptance of grants from Federal, State and local governments; limiting actions against such an authority and exempting it from taxation; authorizing counties and municipalities to enter into compacts for the financing of each authority and to make appropriations in accordance with such compacts; creating a citizen advisory committee; conferring exclusive jurisdiction upon certain courts with respect to matters relating to such authority and empowering each authority to function outside the metropolitan area under certain terms and conditions; continuing the existence of a presently existing transportation authority; providing for suspensions for offenses involving controlled substances, for certain out-of-State documentations, for reports by courts and for the allocation of oil company franchise tax revenues to the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission; and making a repeal.