PRINTER'S NO. 482
No. 447 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY HUTCHINSON, BASTIAN, DALEY, HERSHEY, SAYLOR AND
YOUNGBLOOD, FEBRUARY 5, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 5, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for depositing waste and other
3 material on highway, property or waters.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 3709(a) and (b)(1) of Title 75 of the
7 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
8 § 3709. Depositing waste and other material on highway,
9 property or waters.
10 (a) General rule.--No person shall throw or deposit, upon or
11 across any highway, or upon any other public or private property
12 without the consent of the owner thereof or into or on the
13 waters of this Commonwealth from a vehicle, any waste paper,
14 sweepings, ashes, household waste, glass, metal, refuse [or],
15 rubbish or gravel, or any dangerous or detrimental substance.
16 (b) Removal of deposited material.--
17 (1) Any person who drops, or permits to be dropped or
18 thrown, upon any highway, or upon any other public or private
1 property without the consent of the owner thereof or into or
2 on any waters of this Commonwealth from a vehicle, any waste
3 paper, sweepings, ashes, household waste, glass, metal,
4 refuse [or], rubbish or gravel, or any dangerous or
5 detrimental substance shall immediately remove the same or
6 cause it to be removed.
7 * * *
8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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