PRINTER'S NO. 1127
No. 1022 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY READSHAW, GEORGE, COLAIZZO, FAIRCHILD, TRAVAGLIO,
BELARDI, STURLA, STABACK, LEDERER, McGEEHAN, TRELLO,
LAUGHLIN, GIGLIOTTI, MELIO, WALKO AND McCALL, MARCH 19, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 19, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for the erection of traffic-control
3 signals on the basis of accident experience.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
8 § 6122.1. Erection of traffic-control signals on the basis of
9 accident experience.
10 (a) General rule.--Notwithstanding any other provision of
11 this title, the department shall erect a traffic-control signal
12 at the intersection of a State-designated highway and a local
13 road when the governing body of the municipality in which the
14 intersection is located submits to the department evidence that
15 five or more reported accidents, of types susceptible of
16 correction by a traffic-control signal, have occurred at the
17 intersection within a three-year period. In order to meet the
18 requirements of this section, each accident must have involved
1 personal injury or property damage to the apparent extent of
2 $200 or more.
3 (b) Joint submission.--If an intersection is located in more
4 than one municipality, the municipalities shall jointly submit
5 the evidence required by subsection (a).
6 (c) Minimum vehicular volume.--When the requirements of
7 subsection (a) are met, the department shall not consider
8 whether the volume of intersecting traffic at the intersection
9 would or would not warrant installment of a traffic-control
10 device.
11 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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