PRINTER'S NO. 1865
No. 1569 Session of 1979
INTRODUCED BY MADIGAN, SIRIANNI, BURD AND LEWIS, JUNE 27, 1979
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 28, 1979
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for the length of vehicles.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 4923 of Title 75, act of November 25,
6 1970 (P.L.707, No.230), known as the Pennsylvania Consolidated
7 Statutes, amended June 6, 1979 (No.12), is amended to read:
8 § 4923. Length of vehicles.
9 (a) General rule.--No motor vehicle, including any load and
10 bumpers, shall exceed an overall length of 40 feet, and no
11 combination, including any load and bumpers, shall exceed an
12 overall length of [55] 60 feet.
13 (b) Exceptions.--The limitations of (a) do not apply to the
14 following:
15 (1) Any motor vehicle equipped with a boom or boom-like
16 device if the vehicle does not exceed [55] 60 feet.
17 [(2) The load on a combination designed exclusively for
18 carrying motor vehicles if the overall length of the
1 combination and load does not exceed 60 feet.]
2 (3) Any combination transporting articles which do not
3 exceed 70 feet in length and are nondivisible as to length.
4 (4) Any bus of an articulated design which does not
5 exceed 60 feet.
6 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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