PRINTER'S NO. 1592
No. 1409 Session of 1981
INTRODUCED BY D. R. WRIGHT, BURNS, F. E. TAYLOR, LEVI,
STEIGHNER, VAN HORNE, CAWLEY, BLAUM, TIGUE, LLOYD, PETERSON,
WASS, STUBAN, LUCYK, GRUITZA AND ARTY, MAY 11, 1981
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 11, 1981
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for flashing lights at loading zones for
3 school children.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 3345(h) of Title 75, act of November 25,
7 1970 (P.L.707, No.230), known as the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes, is amended to read:
9 § 3345. Meeting or overtaking school bus.
10 * * *
11 (h) Loading zones for school children.--Every school
12 district transporting school children by school bus shall
13 establish and maintain school bus loading zones at or near all
14 schools to or from which school children are transported and
15 shall establish school bus loading zones along the highways
16 traversed by school buses in accordance with regulations
17 promulgated by the department. A school district, at its
18 expense, may install flashing lights at any loading zone which
1 the district determines to be hazardous.
2 * * *
3 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 90 days.
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