PRINTER'S NO. 2560
No. 2054 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY FLEAGLE, PETRARCA, GEIST, TIGUE, FARGO, HERSHEY,
BARLEY, CLARK, ARMSTRONG, GERLACH, MARSICO, ITKIN, LEE,
HASAY, VEON, WOZNIAK, MERRY, LEH, HECKLER, BILLOW AND
TOMLINSON, OCTOBER 21, 1991
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 21, 1991
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for local authorities to appoint
3 temporary personnel to direct traffic at industrial
4 facilities during shift changes.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 3102 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes, amended August 5, 1991 (P.L. , No.26),
9 is amended to read:
10 § 3102. Obedience to authorized persons directing traffic.
11 (a) General rule.--No person shall willfully fail or refuse
12 to comply with any lawful order or direction of any uniformed
13 police officer, sheriff or constable or any appropriately
14 attired person, including an agent or employee of the funeral
15 director during a funeral, authorized to direct, control or
16 regulate traffic.
17 (b) Appointment of temporary personnel.--
18 (1) At the request of an owner or operator of an
1 industrial facility, office park, stadium, arena, race track
2 or any other facility as determined by the department by
3 regulation, a local authority shall have the power and may
4 appoint temporary personnel to direct traffic in the
5 immediate vicinity of the facility. All costs incurred in
6 this program shall be paid by the owner or operator of the
7 requesting facility.
8 (2) A person authorized to direct traffic under
9 paragraph (1) shall be in uniform of a type approved by the
10 local authority and shall have received the training
11 necessary to direct traffic as required by the local
12 authority.
13 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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