PRINTER'S NO. 807
No. 750 Session of 1971
INTRODUCED BY McCREESH, MAY 25, 1971
REFERRED TO HIGHWAYS, MAY 25, 1971
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 29, 1959 (P.L.58), entitled "An act
2 consolidating and revising the Vehicle Code, the Tractor
3 Code, the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Act and
4 other acts relating to the ownership, possession and use of
5 vehicles and tractors," requiring police officers to be in
6 police uniform and motor vehicles used by them to be marked
7 as police vehicles when making arrests or stopping vehicles
8 for summary violations.
9 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
10 hereby enacts as follows:
11 Section 1. The act of April 29, 1959 (P.L.58), known as "The
12 Vehicle Code," is amended by adding a section to read:
13 Section 1203.2. Arrest for Summary Violations.--No police
14 officer shall stop a motor vehicle or tractor for a summary
15 violation of this act, or arrest any operator of a motor vehicle
16 or tractor for any summary violation of this act between sunset
17 and sunrise, unless such police officer shall be in police
18 uniform, and any motor vehicle used by him in stopping the
19 vehicle or tractor in making the arrest shall be plainly marked
20 as a police vehicle.
21 Penalty.--Any police officer violating the provisions of this
1 act shall, upon summary conviction before a magistrate, be
2 sentenced to pay a fine of twenty-five dollars ($25.00) and
3 costs of prosecution, and in default thereof shall undergo
4 imprisonment for not more than ten (10) days.
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