PRINTER'S NO.  129

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

SENATE BILL

 

No.

155

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY FOLMER, ORIE, BROWNE, BRUBAKER, EICHELBERGER, ALLOWAY, WAUGH, M. WHITE, BAKER AND WOZNIAK, JANUARY 12, 2011

  

  

REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 12, 2011  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

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Statutes, further providing for securing loads in vehicles.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 4903(e) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

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§ 4903.  Securing loads in vehicles.

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(e)  Exceptions.--This section does not prohibit:

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(1)  the necessary spreading of any substance in highway

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maintenance or construction operations; [or]

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(2)  the shedding or dropping of feathers or other matter

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from vehicles hauling live or slaughtered birds or

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animals[.]; or

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(3)  the falling, blowing or unintentional dropping of

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loose chopped fragments or strands of plant materials from

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vehicles hauling harvested forage crops from the field to

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storage facilities.

 


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

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