PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 2039 PRINTER'S NO. 2938
No. 1598 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY SIPTROTH, SCAVELLO, BELFANTI, BIANCUCCI,
CREIGHTON, CURRY, CUTLER, DENLINGER, FABRIZIO, FREEMAN,
GRUCELA, HENNESSEY, KORTZ, KULA, LONGIETTI, MAHONEY, MENSCH,
MURT, PALLONE, PAYNE, SOLOBAY, THOMAS, YOUNGBLOOD AND JAMES,
JUNE 21, 2007
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, DECEMBER 4, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for visual signs SIGNALS on <--
3 authorized vehicles.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4572(a) introductory paragraph, (1) and
7 (5) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are
8 amended AND SUBSECTION (A) IS AMENDED BY ADDING A PARAGRAPH to <--
9 read:
10 § 4572. Visual signals on authorized vehicles.
11 (a) Flashing or revolving blue lights.--Ambulance personnel,
12 volunteer firefighters, certified volunteer search and rescue
13 organization members, local emergency coordinators and owners
14 and handlers of dogs used in tracking humans may each equip one
15 motor vehicle with no more than two flashing or revolving blue
16 lights.
1 (1) In order to be eligible to display lights on their
2 vehicles under this subsection, the names of the ambulance
3 personnel, volunteer firefighters and certified volunteer
4 search and rescue organization members shall be submitted to
5 the nearest station of the Pennsylvania State Police on a
6 list signed by the chief of the ambulance or fire department
7 or company[,] or the head of the search and rescue
8 organization[, and each]. Each local emergency coordinator
9 and each [dog] owner and handler OF DOGS USED IN TRACKING <--
10 HUMANS shall register at the nearest Pennsylvania State
11 Police station.
12 * * *
13 (5) The lights shall be removed from the vehicle
14 immediately [upon receipt of notice from the chief of the
15 ambulance or fire department or company or the head of the
16 search and rescue organization to remove the lights upon
17 termination of the person's status as an active volunteer
18 firefighter or ambulance person or upon termination of the
19 person's active status as a certified volunteer search and
20 rescue organization member or dog owner or handler, or when
21 the vehicle is no longer used in connection with the person's
22 duties as a volunteer firefighter or ambulance person,
23 certified volunteer search and rescue organization member or
24 dog owner or handler.]:
25 (i) when the individual is no longer serving as
26 active ambulance person, volunteer firefighter, certified
27 volunteer search and rescue organization member, local
28 emergency coordinator or dog owner or handler OF DOGS <--
29 USED IN TRACKING HUMANS;
30 (ii) when the vehicle is no longer used in
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1 connection with the person's duties as ambulance person,
2 volunteer firefighter, certified volunteer search and
3 rescue organization member, local emergency coordinator
4 or dog owner or handler OF DOGS USED IN TRACKING HUMANS; <--
5 or
6 (iii) upon the individual's receipt of written
7 notice from:
8 (A) the chief of the ambulance company of
9 termination of the person's status as active
10 ambulance personnel;
11 (B) the chief of the fire department of the
12 termination of the person's status as an active
13 volunteer firefighter;
14 (C) the head of the search and rescue
15 organization of the termination of the person's
16 status as an active certified volunteer search and
17 rescue organization member;
18 (D) the appropriate governing body of the
19 termination of the person's status as an active local
20 emergency coordinator; or
21 (E) the appropriate governing unit of the
22 termination of the person's active status as a dog <--
23 owner or handler OF DOGS USED IN TRACKING HUMANS. <--
24 (6) THE CHIEF OF THE AMBULANCE OR FIRE DEPARTMENT OR <--
25 COMPANY, THE HEAD OF THE SEARCH AND RESCUE ORGANIZATION, THE
26 LOCAL EMERGENCY COORDINATOR AND EACH OWNER OR HANDLER OF DOGS
27 USED IN TRACKING HUMANS, AS APPLICABLE, SHALL NOTIFY THE
28 NEAREST STATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE WHEN AN
29 INDIVIDUAL IS NO LONGER AUTHORIZED UNDER THIS SECTION TO
30 SERVE AS AN ACTIVE AMBULANCE PERSON, VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTER,
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1 CERTIFIED VOLUNTEER SEARCH AND RESCUE ORGANIZATION MEMBER,
2 LOCAL EMERGENCY COORDINATOR OR OWNER OR HANDLER OF DOGS USED
3 IN TRACKING HUMANS.
4 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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