PRINTER'S NO. 1004
No. 902 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY PETTIT, MERRY, TRELLO, ITKIN, MELIO, MARKOSEK,
KAISER, DiGIROLAMO, HENNESSEY, PRESTON, READSHAW, BARD,
YOUNGBLOOD, STEELMAN, JOSEPHS, WAUGH, E. Z. TAYLOR, STABACK,
STERN, CIVERA, TRICH, PISTELLA, HALUSKA AND L. I. COHEN,
FEBRUARY 28, 1995
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 28, 1995
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, requiring vehicle rental agencies to offer optional
3 child passenger restraint systems to all customers; and
4 providing for the purchase of child passenger restraint
5 systems.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Section 4581 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
9 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
10 § 4581. Restraint systems.
11 * * *
12 (i) Vehicle rental agencies.--Each automobile and light
13 truck rental agency shall offer optional child passenger
14 restraint systems to every customer. Agency rental forms will
15 include a check-off which will permit a customer to refuse the
16 optional child passenger restraint system. The failure of any
17 automobile or light truck rental agency to comply with the
18 provisions of this subsection is a summary offense, and the
1 penalty provisions of subsection (b) shall apply.
2 Section 2. Section 4582 of Title 75 is amended to read:
3 § 4582. Child Passenger Restraint Fund.
4 A Child Passenger Restraint Fund is established in the
5 General Fund as a special restricted receipts account hereby
6 earmarked for and appropriated to the department. This fund
7 shall consist of all fines deposited pursuant to section 4581(b)
8 (relating to restraint systems), all Federal funds granted for
9 said use and any moneys donated into the fund. All such funds
10 shall be used solely for the purpose of purchasing Federally
11 approved child restraint seats and making such seats available
12 to qualified loaner programs within the Commonwealth. A
13 qualified loaner program shall be one determined by the
14 department to loan Federally approved child restraint seats to
15 parents or legal guardians of children under four years of age
16 who, due to financial or economic hardship, are unable to comply
17 with the provisions of this subchapter. Any automobile or light
18 truck rental agency may purchase approved child restraint seats
19 from the fund, provided that the agency offers that child
20 restraint seat to rental customers free of charge. The
21 department shall adopt such regulations as are necessary to
22 effectuate the purpose of this section.
23 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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