PRINTER'S NO. 1188
No. 1034 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY IRVIS, BITTLE, SHUMAN, BERLIN, GARZIA, TAYLOR,
MORRIS, LAUGHLIN, MEBUS, REED, D. S. HAYES, ROSS, KERNICK,
ZWIKL AND MRKONIC, APRIL 16, 1975
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 21, 1975
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 29, 1959 (P.L.58, No.32), entitled "An
2 act consolidating and revising the Vehicle Code, the Tractor
3 Code, the Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Act and
4 other acts relating to the ownership, possession and use of
5 vehicles and tractors," further extending the meaning of the
6 term handicapped person.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 501.1, act of April 29, 1959 (P.L.58,
10 No.32), known as "The Vehicle Code," added November 10, 1965
11 (P.L.839, No.353), is amended to read:
12 Section 501.1 Special Plates for Handicapped Persons.--On
13 the application of any person who has lost the use of a leg or
14 both legs, or an arm or both arms, or any combination thereof,
15 or any person who is afflicted by cerebral palsy, muscular
16 distrophy or polio or who is blind, the department shall issue
17 such handicapped person special registration plates designating
18 the vehicle so licensed as belonging to a handicapped person.
19 The registration plates so issued shall, reading from left to
1 right, bear a handicapped insignia approved by the Department
2 and shall be followed by such numbers or letters as the
3 department finds expedient. The department shall not issue
4 registration plates so designated to any person other than a
5 handicapped person. The department shall not charge any fee,
6 other than the regular fee for annual registration, for the
7 issuance of such registration plates.
8 Penalty.--Any person who is not a handicapped person, as
9 prescribed in this section and who wilfully and falsely
10 represents himself as having the qualifications to obtain such
11 vehicle registration plates in an attempt to procure the special
12 plates prescribed by this section, shall, upon summary
13 conviction before a magistrate, be sentenced to pay a fine of
14 fifty dollars ($50.00) and costs of prosecution, and in default
15 of the payment thereof, shall undergo imprisonment for not more
16 than ten (10) days.
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