PRINTER'S NO. 372
No. 348 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY WAUGH, FUMO, KASUNIC, HOLL, HART AND SLOCUM,
FEBRUARY 11, 1999
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 11, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for additional parking
3 regulations relating to handicapped persons and severely
4 disabled veterans.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 3354(d) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
9 § 3354. Additional parking regulations.
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11 (d) Handicapped persons and severely disabled veterans.--
12 (1) When a motor vehicle bearing a handicapped or
13 severely disabled veteran plate or displaying a handicapped
14 or severely disabled veteran parking placard as prescribed in
15 this title is being operated by or for the transportation of
16 the handicapped person or severely disabled veteran, the
17 driver shall be relieved of any liability for parking for a
18 period of 60 minutes in excess of the legal parking period
1 permitted by local authorities except where local ordinances
2 or police regulations provide for the accommodation of heavy
3 traffic during morning, afternoon or evening hours.
4 (2) At the request of any handicapped person or severely
5 disabled veteran, local authorities may erect on the highway
6 as close as possible to their place of residence [a sign or
7 signs] an official sign indicating that that place is
8 reserved for the handicapped person or severely disabled
9 veteran[, that no parking is allowed there by others, and
10 that any unauthorized person parking there shall be subject
11 to a fine].
12 (3) (i) Except for persons parking vehicles lawfully
13 bearing a handicapped or severely disabled veteran
14 registration plate or displaying a handicapped or
15 severely disabled veteran parking placard when such
16 vehicles are being operated by or for the transportation
17 of a handicapped person or a severely disabled veteran,
18 no person shall park a vehicle on public or private
19 property in a parking space reserved for a handicapped
20 person or severely disabled veteran [which property has
21 been so posted in accordance with departmental
22 regulations which shall require a sign stating the
23 penalty amount indicated in subsection (f), a sign
24 indicating that vehicles in violation of the subsection
25 may be towed and require that signs be replaced when they
26 become either obsolete or missing with all costs to
27 replace the necessary signs to be borne by the persons
28 responsible for signing the particular location]. Any
29 vehicle which is unlawfully parked in a designated
30 handicapped parking area may be removed from that area by
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1 towing and may be reclaimed by the vehicle owner upon
2 payment of the towing costs.
3 (ii) Local authorities shall have the power and may,
4 by ordinance or resolution, authorize handicapped persons
5 and severely disabled veterans to issue statements to
6 violators or violating vehicles for violation of
7 subparagraph (i). The form of the statement shall be as
8 prescribed by the local authorities.
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10 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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