THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY PAYNE, BAKER, BOBACK, GABLER, HESS, KAUFFMAN, KORTZ, MOUL, PYLE, QUINN, READSHAW, SCAVELLO AND SWANGER, NOVEMBER 14, 2012

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, NOVEMBER 14, 2012  

AN ACT

Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, further providing for additional parking

regulations.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 3354(d)(3)(i) and (e) of Title 75 of the

Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:

§ 3354.  Additional parking regulations.

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(d)  Person with a disability and disabled veterans.--

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(3)  (i)  Except for persons parking vehicles lawfully

bearing a person with a disability, disabled veteran or

severely disabled veteran registration plate or

displaying a person with a disability or severely

disabled veteran parking placard when such vehicles are

being operated by or for the transportation of a person

with a disability, a disabled veteran or a severely

disabled veteran, no person shall park a vehicle on

public or private property reserved for a person with a

disability, disabled veteran or severely disabled veteran

which property has been so posted in accordance with

departmental regulations. Regulations shall require that

parking spaces designated with an international symbol

for access for persons with disabilities on a sign are

posted with a sign stating the penalty amount indicated

in subsection (f) and that vehicles in violation of the

subsection may be towed and require that signs be

replaced when they become either obsolete or missing with

all costs to replace the necessary signs to be borne by

the persons responsible for signing the particular

location. The absence of a sign stating the penalty

amount at parking spaces designated with an international

symbol for access for persons with disabilities shall not

preclude the enforcement of this subsection. A vehicle

which is unlawfully parked in a designated person with a

disability parking area may be removed from that area by

towing and may be reclaimed by the vehicle owner upon

payment of the towing costs. A vehicle may only be towed

under this paragraph if the parking space is posted with

a sign indicating that vehicles in violation of this

section may be towed.

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(e)  Unauthorized use.--

(1)  An operator of a vehicle bearing a person with a

disability, disabled veteran or severely disabled veteran

plate [or displaying a person with a disability or severely

disabled veteran parking placard] shall not make use of the

parking privileges accorded to a person with a disability,

disabled veterans and severely disabled veterans under

subsection (d)(3) unless the operator is a person with a

disability, a disabled veteran or a severely disabled veteran

or unless the vehicle is being operated for the

transportation of a person with a disability, disabled

veteran or severely disabled veteran.

(2)  An operator of a vehicle displaying a person with a

disability or severely disabled veteran parking placard shall

not make use of the parking privileges accorded to a person

with a disability and a severely disabled veteran under

subsection (d)(3) unless the operator is a person with a

disability or a severely disabled veteran or unless the

vehicle is being operated for the transportation of a person

with a disability or a severely disabled veteran.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.