PRINTER'S NO. 972
No. 866 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY FISHER, BODACK, BELAN, DAWIDA, SCANLON, REGOLI AND
PECORA, APRIL 25, 1989
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 25, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of January 22, 1968 (P.L.42, No.8), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act empowering and authorizing the Department
3 of Transportation to establish and administer certain grant
4 programs for the betterment of mass transportation systems
5 and facilities throughout the Commonwealth; providing for
6 State grants to transportation companies, municipalities,
7 counties, or their instrumentalities and to agencies and
8 instrumentalities of the Commonwealth for studies, research,
9 demonstration programs, promotion programs, purchase of
10 service projects, and capital improvement projects under
11 certain conditions; authorizing grants by counties or
12 municipalities in metropolitan areas to local transportation
13 organizations, authorizing the creation of a transportation
14 authority to function in each metropolitan area consisting of
15 any county of the first class and all nearby counties within
16 a radius of twenty miles of any such first class county, as a
17 body corporate and politic for the purpose of establishing an
18 integrated mass transportation system with all pertinent
19 powers including, but not limited to, leasing, acquiring,
20 owning, operating and maintaining a system for, or otherwise
21 providing for, the transportation of persons, authorizing the
22 borrowing of money and issuance of bonds therefor, conferring
23 the right of eminent domain on the authority; altering the
24 jurisdiction of the Public Utility Commission, authorizing
25 the acceptance of grants from Federal, State and local
26 governments, limiting actions against the authority and
27 exempting it from taxation, authorizing counties and
28 municipalities to enter into compacts for the financing of
29 each authority and to make appropriations in accordance with
30 such compacts, creating a citizen advisory committee,
31 conferring exclusive jurisdiction upon certain courts with
32 respect to matters relating to such authority, empowering
33 each authority to function outside of the metropolitan area
1 under certain terms and conditions," further providing for
2 pooled bus acquisitions.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 203(6) of the act of January 22, 1968
6 (P.L.42, No.8), known as the Pennsylvania Urban Mass
7 Transportation Law, is amended by adding a subclause to read:
8 Section 203. Program Authorizations.--The department is
9 hereby authorized, within the limitations hereinafter provided
10 and is required where the provisions of section 204 apply:
11 * * *
12 (6) To participate in a pooled bus acquisition program with
13 transportation companies or local transportation organizations
14 and the Federal Government for the purpose of making buses
15 available to transportation companies or local transportation
16 organizations for use in urban common carrier mass
17 transportation service, in accordance with the following
18 procedures:
19 * * *
20 (vii) At its discretion, the department may organize and
21 fund, with Commonwealth funds, postacquisition studies
22 reasonably related to any pooled bus acquisition made pursuant
23 to this section, including, but not limited to, a vehicle
24 inspection study at an appropriate interval or intervals
25 following acquisition in order to monitor the condition of any
26 vehicle purchased pursuant to this section.
27 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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