PRINTER'S NO. 143
No. 155 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY NICKOL, YOUNGBLOOD, CAPPABIANCA, MAITLAND, NAILOR,
CAWLEY, PLATTS, LAUGHLIN, GORDNER, SEYFERT, VANCE, DEMPSEY,
ORIE, SATHER, STERN, McCALL, MICOZZIE, TRELLO, WILT, ROSS,
E. Z. TAYLOR, BATTISTO, B. SMITH, HARHAI, RUBLEY, BROWNE,
MANDERINO, PHILLIPS AND C. WILLIAMS, JANUARY 27, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 27, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for additional parking
3 regulations relating to handicapped persons and severely
4 disabled veterans.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 3354(d) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
9 § 3354. Additional parking regulations.
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11 (d) Handicapped persons and severely disabled veterans.--
12 (1) When a motor vehicle bearing a handicapped or
13 severely disabled veteran plate or displaying a handicapped
14 or severely disabled veteran parking placard as prescribed in
15 this title is being operated by or for the transportation of
16 the handicapped person or severely disabled veteran, the
17 driver shall be relieved of any liability for parking for a
1 period of 60 minutes in excess of the legal parking period
2 permitted by local authorities except where local ordinances
3 or police regulations provide for the accommodation of heavy
4 traffic during morning, afternoon or evening hours.
5 (2) At the request of any handicapped person or severely
6 disabled veteran, local authorities may erect on the highway
7 as close as possible to their place of residence [a sign or
8 signs] an official sign indicating that that place is
9 reserved for the handicapped person or severely disabled
10 veteran[, that no parking is allowed there by others, and
11 that any unauthorized person parking there shall be subject
12 to a fine].
13 (3) (i) Except for persons parking vehicles lawfully
14 bearing a handicapped or severely disabled veteran
15 registration plate or displaying a handicapped or
16 severely disabled veteran parking placard when such
17 vehicles are being operated by or for the transportation
18 of a handicapped person or a severely disabled veteran,
19 no person shall park a vehicle on public or private
20 property in a parking space reserved for a handicapped
21 person or severely disabled veteran [which property has
22 been so posted in accordance with departmental
23 regulations which shall require a sign stating the
24 penalty amount indicated in subsection (f), a sign
25 indicating that vehicles in violation of the subsection
26 may be towed and require that signs be replaced when they
27 become either obsolete or missing with all costs to
28 replace the necessary signs to be borne by the persons
29 responsible for signing the particular location]. Any
30 vehicle which is unlawfully parked in a designated
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1 handicapped parking area may be removed from that area by
2 towing and may be reclaimed by the vehicle owner upon
3 payment of the towing costs.
4 (ii) Local authorities shall have the power and may,
5 by ordinance or resolution, authorize handicapped persons
6 and severely disabled veterans to issue statements to
7 violators or violating vehicles for violation of
8 subparagraph (i). The form of the statement shall be as
9 prescribed by the local authorities.
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11 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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