PRINTER'S NO. 1817
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1335
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY LAWRENCE, DIAMOND, ENGLISH, GODSHALL, IRVIN,
MILLARD, O'NEILL, PICKETT, ROZZI, TRUITT AND MENTZER,
JUNE 16, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 16, 2015
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in powers of department and local authorities,
further providing for emergency telephones along Pennsylvania
Turnpike.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 6115 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 6115. Emergency telephones along Pennsylvania Turnpike.
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission [shall] may provide for
the installation and maintenance of an emergency telephone along
every two miles on both sides of the highway along a 50-mile
stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike between Exits 8 and 11.
[These emergency telephones shall be kept in operation for one
year on a test basis, after which the commission shall report to
the General Assembly its findings as to the use of the equipment
and the cost of maintaining it. This report shall be the basis
for a final decision as to whether emergency telephones should
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be installed and maintained along the entire Pennsylvania
Turnpike and its extensions.]
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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