PRINTER'S NO. 1914
No. 1562 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY L. I. COHEN AND RUBLEY, MAY 9, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 9, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for speed timing devices by
3 reducing the tolerance of excessive speed from ten to five
4 miles over the posted limit.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 3368(c)(4) of Title 75 of the
8 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
9 § 3368. Speed timing devices.
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11 (c) Mechanical, electrical and electronic devices
12 authorized.--
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14 (4) No person may be convicted upon evidence obtained
15 through the use of devices authorized by paragraphs (2) and
16 (3) unless the speed recorded is six or more miles per hour
17 in excess of the legal speed limit. Furthermore, no person
18 may be convicted upon evidence obtained through the use of
1 devices authorized by paragraph (3) in an area where the
2 legal speed limit is less than 55 miles per hour if the speed
3 recorded is less than [ten] five miles per hour in excess of
4 the legal speed limit. This paragraph shall not apply to
5 evidence obtained through the use of devices authorized by
6 paragraph (3) within a school zone.
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8 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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