PRINTER'S NO. 1025
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
904
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY MURT, BARRAR, FREEMAN, GILLEN, KAUFFMAN, MENTZER,
PASHINSKI, RADER AND ZIMMERMAN, MARCH 20, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 20, 2017
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in registration of vehicles, providing for special
farmland preservation plates and for the use of a portion of
the fee for the plate.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
ยง 1369.3. Farmland preservation plate.
(a) Plate.--The department, in consultation with the Bureau
of Farmland Preservation, shall design a special farmland
preservation registration plate. Upon application of any person,
accompanied by a fee of $35 that shall be in addition to the
annual registration fee, the department shall issue the plate
for a passenger car or other vehicle with a registered gross
weight of not more than 9,000 pounds.
(b) Use of fee.--Of each fee paid under subsection (a), $15
shall be deposited into the Agricultural Conservation Easement
Purchase Fund established under the act of June 30, 1981
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(P.L.128, No.43) , known as the Agricultural Area Security Law,
to preserve farmland in this Commonwealth.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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