HOUSE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 530, 838 PRINTER'S NO. 1150
No. 511 Session of 1973
INTRODUCED BY R. D. FLEMING, MANBECK, STAUFFER, HOBBS, FRAME,
STROUP, CIANFRANI, NOLAN, O'PAKE, MELLOW, SCALES, ORLANDO,
ROSS, KURY, MAZZEI, MURRAY, WOOD, W. E. FLEMING, DENGLER,
EWING, STAPLETON, BELL, TILGHMAN, LENTZ, McCREESH, DWYER,
ANDREWS, REIBMAN, ROVNER, COPPERSMITH, HESS, HANKINS,
AMMERMAN, HILL, NOSZKA, ARLENE, DOUGHERTY, SMITH, HOLL,
HAGER, HOWARD AND ZEMPRELLI, MARCH 20, 1973
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JUNE 25, 1973
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 29, 1959 (P.L.58, No.32), entitled "An
2 act 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 protectors or flaps behind
6 the rearmost wheels of certain vehicles and changing
7 penalties.
8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
9 hereby enacts as follows:
10 Section 1. Section 830, act of April 29, 1959 (P.L.58,
11 No.32), known as "The Vehicle Code," is amended to read:
12 Section 830. [Commercial] Certain Vehicles To Be Equipped
13 with Rear Wheel Flaps or Shields.--(a) Every motor bus, motor
14 omnibus, commercial motor vehicle, tractor and trailer and every
15 combination of such a [commercial] motor vehicle and trailer or
16 of a truck tractor and semi-trailer, when used on a highway,
17 shall be so constructed or equipped [as] with suitable metal
1 protectors or substantial flexible flaps behind the rearmost
2 wheels of the vehicle or combination or any wheel extending
3 beyond the side of the body or fenders of the vehicle or tractor
4 to minimize side spray and to bar water or other road surface
5 substances thrown from the [rear] wheels of such vehicle or
6 combination. [at tangents exceeding twenty-two and one-half (22 <--
7 1/2) degrees, measured from the road surface, from passing in a
8 straight line to the rear of such vehicle or combination.] <--
9 (b) The protectors or flaps shall have a ground clearance of
10 not more than one-third (1/3) of the horizontal distance from
11 the bottom edge of the protector or flap to the center line of
12 the axle, provided, however, that no protector or flap need be
13 closer to the ground than six (6) inches under any condition of
14 loading. The protector or flap shall extend laterally at least
15 the width of the tire or tires being protected.
16 (c) If any motor vehicle, including semi-trailers and
17 trailers, is so designed or constructed that the objectives of
18 this section are accomplished by reason of fender or body
19 construction or other means of enclosure, either permanent or
20 temporary, then the requirements of this section have been
21 satisfied.
22 (d) This section shall not apply to any farm tractor or to <--
23 uncoupled truck tractors "OR TO UNCOUPLED TRUCK TRACTORS" or to <--
24 pole trailers or other vehicles where the construction is such
25 that complete freedom around the wheel area is necessary to
26 secure the designed use of the vehicle.
27 Penalty.--Any person violating any of the provisions of this
28 section shall, upon summary conviction before a magistrate, be
29 sentenced to pay a fine of [ten dollars ($10.00)] fifty dollars
30 ($50.00) and costs of prosecution, and in default of the payment
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1 thereof, shall undergo imprisonment for not more than [five (5)]
2 ten (10) days.
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