PRINTER'S NO. 436
No. 424 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY SALVATORE, FEBRUARY 22, 1999
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 22, 1999
AN ACT 1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated 2 Statutes, further providing for visual and audible signals on 3 emergency vehicles. 4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 5 hereby enacts as follows: 6 Section 1. Section 4571(e) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania 7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read: 8 § 4571. Visual and audible signals on emergency vehicles. 9 * * * 10 (e) Authorized period of use.--The lights and warning 11 systems specified by this section may be used only during an 12 emergency or in the interest of public safety and by police 13 officers, sheriffs and deputy sheriffs in enforcement of the 14 law, and by officers and investigators of the Bureau of Liquor 15 Control Enforcement of the Pennsylvania State Police, when 16 operating a vehicle clearly identified as an official vehicle of 17 the bureau, for the purpose of enforcing the act of April 12, 18 1951 (P.L.90, No.21), known as the Liquor Code, and any other
1 statutes as authorized by the Liquor Code. An ambulance which is
2 transporting a patient may use either the lights or the audible
3 warning system, or both, as determined by the driver of the
4 ambulance.
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6 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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