PRINTER'S NO. 3470
No. 2504 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY GEIST, HESS, ARGALL, FORCIER, DRUCE, LEH, MARSICO,
PIPPY, NICKOL, S. H. SMITH, PETRARCA, DALEY, STRITTMATTER,
STAIRS, MAHER, BARD, SANTONI, LAUGHLIN, SATHER, STERN,
ARMSTRONG, BAKER, BARLEY, BENNINGHOFF, BOYES, BUNT, BUXTON,
CALTAGIRONE, CASORIO, CIVERA, CLARK, M. COHEN, DeWEESE,
EACHUS, EGOLF, FEESE, FICHTER, FLEAGLE, GANNON, GODSHALL,
HASAY, HERSHEY, LESCOVITZ, LUCYK, LYNCH, MAITLAND, MASLAND,
McCALL, McNAUGHTON, METCALFE, S. MILLER, NAILOR, PESCI,
PETRONE, RAYMOND, READSHAW, ROHRER, SAINATO, SHANER,
B. SMITH, SOLOBAY, STURLA, TANGRETTI, E. Z. TAYLOR,
TRAVAGLIO, TRUE, TULLI, VAN HORNE, VANCE, VEON, WALKO, WILT,
YEWCIC, ZIMMERMAN, ZUG, SURRA, WOGAN AND FARGO, MAY 3, 2000
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 3, 2000
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for motorcycle parking.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 3354 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
6 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
7 § 3354. Additional parking regulations.
8 * * *
9 (e.1) Motorcycle parking.--Notwithstanding the provisions of
10 section 6301 (relating to prosecutions under local ordinances
11 superseded by title) regarding parking violations, a local
12 ordinance may not prohibit nor cite as a violation the parallel
13 or angle occupancy by one or more motorcycles in any parking
1 space on any highway otherwise available for parking for other
2 individual vehicles, provided that the space occupied by one or
3 more motorcycles does not exceed the space within which a single
4 vehicle must park. In the instance of a violation applicable to
5 any single vehicle, each motorcycle so parked shall be
6 individually liable for any violation as if the motorcycle were
7 the sole occupant of the parking space.
8 * * *
9 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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