PRINTER'S NO. 2889
No. 2177 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY WILSON AND J. L. WRIGHT, DECEMBER 11, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, DECEMBER 11, 1989
AN ACT
1 Requiring that certain electric signs be approved by
2 Underwriter's Laboratory; and providing penalties.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Sign requirement.
6 Any electric sign installed within 100 feet of the right-of-
7 way of a highway or thoroughfare maintained by the Commonwealth
8 shall be constructed in accordance with Underwriter's Laboratory
9 specifications and shall bear the Underwriter's Laboratory
10 label.
11 Section 2. Penalty.
12 The owner or operator of any establishment maintaining a sign
13 in violation of this act commits a summary offense.
14 Section 3. Application of act.
15 This act shall apply to electric signs erected on or after
16 the effective date of this act.
17 Section 4. Effective date.
18 This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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