PRINTER'S NO. 315
No. 291 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY MAYERNIK, COY, BELARDI, MARKOSEK, KUKOVICH, BOYES,
BOOK, STABACK, ITKIN, DAWIDA, DURHAM, SEMMEL, NAHILL, PRATT,
DeWEESE, TRELLO, BOWSER, FISCHER, E. Z. TAYLOR, D. R. WRIGHT,
MORRIS, ARTY, TELEK, DEAL, GRUPPO AND GEIST, FEBRUARY 12,
1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 12, 1985
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for handicapped and disabled
3 veterans' parking; and providing penalties.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 3354(d) and (e) of Title 75 of the
7 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
8 § 3354. Additional parking regulations.
9 * * *
10 (d) Handicapped persons and disabled veterans.--
11 (1) When a motor vehicle bearing registration plates or
12 displaying a placard issued to handicapped persons or
13 disabled veterans as prescribed in this title is being
14 operated by or for the transportation of the handicapped
15 person or disabled veteran, the driver shall be relieved of
16 any liability for parking for a period of 60 minutes in
17 excess of the legal parking period permitted by local
1 authorities except where local ordinances or police
2 regulations provide for the accommodation of heavy traffic
3 during morning, afternoon or evening hours.
4 (2) At the request of any handicapped person or disabled
5 veteran, local authorities may erect on the highway as close
6 as possible to their place of residence a sign or signs
7 indicating that that place is reserved for a handicapped
8 person or disabled veteran, that no parking is allowed there
9 by others, and that any unauthorized person parking there
10 shall be subject to a fine.
11 (3) Except for persons parking vehicles lawfully bearing
12 registration plates or parking placards issued to handicapped
13 persons or disabled veterans, no person shall park a vehicle
14 on public or private property reserved for a handicapped
15 person or disabled veteran which property has been so posted
16 in accordance with departmental regulations.
17 (4) Churches, hotels, hospitals, nursing homes, schools,
18 commercial stores, theaters, sports arenas, restaurants,
19 airports and apartments with interior dining facilities open
20 to the public, maintaining parking lots for the use of their
21 customers, shall erect and maintain at their own expense at
22 least one handicapped parking space which shall be marked by
23 a sign which shall be erected and maintained in accordance
24 with departmental regulations.
25 (e) Penalty.--Any person violating subsection (a), (b), [or]
26 (d)(1), (2) or (3) is guilty of a summary offense and shall,
27 upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than
28 $15. Any person violating subsection (d)(4) is guilty of a
29 summary offense and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay
30 a fine of $300.
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1 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 90 days.
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