PRINTER'S NO. 3106

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 2256 Session of 1986


        INTRODUCED BY DISTLER, JOHNSON, TRELLO, SEMMEL, STABACK, MERRY,
           CARLSON, MACKOWSKI AND NOYE, MARCH 17, 1986

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 17, 1986

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
     2     Statutes, further prohibiting the use of certain hearing
     3     impairment devices.

     4     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     5  hereby enacts as follows:
     6     Section 1.  Section 3314(a) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
     7  Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
     8  § 3314.  Prohibiting use of hearing impairment devices.
     9     (a)  General rule.--No driver shall operate a vehicle while
    10  wearing or using [one or more] two-sided headphones, earphones
    11  or any similar device which the department by regulation
    12  determines would impair the ability of the driver to hear
    13  traffic sounds.
    14     * * *
    15     Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.


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