PRINTER'S NO. 917
No. 803 Session of 2007
INTRODUCED BY BOSCOLA, WOZNIAK, WAUGH, FONTANA, RAFFERTY AND
FERLO, APRIL 27, 2007
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, APRIL 27, 2007
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for depositing waste and other
3 material on highway, property or waters.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 3709(d) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 3709. Depositing waste and other material on highway,
9 property or waters.
10 * * *
11 (d) Penalty.--Any person violating any of the provisions of
12 subsection (a) or (b) commits a summary offense and shall, upon
13 conviction, be sentenced to either or both of the following:
14 (1) To pay a fine of not more than[:
15 (i) $900 for a violation which occurs in an easement
16 purchased under the program established by section 14.1
17 of the act of June 30, 1981 (P.L.128, No.43), known as
18 the Agricultural Area Security Law;
1 (ii) $600 for a violation which occurs in an
2 agricultural security area as defined in section 3 of the
3 Agricultural Area Security Law; or
4 (iii) $300 for a violation which occurs anywhere
5 else.] $1,000.
6 (2) Except where infirmity or age or other circumstance
7 would create a hardship, be directed by the court in which
8 conviction is obtained to pick up and remove litter from
9 public property or private property, or both, with prior
10 permission of the legal owner. If the person has no prior
11 record of convictions for violation of this section, he may
12 be sentenced to pick up and remove litter for not less than
13 eight hours nor more than 16 hours. Upon a second conviction,
14 the person may be sentenced to pick up and remove litter for
15 not less than 16 hours and not more than 32 hours. Upon third
16 and subsequent convictions, he may be sentenced to pick up
17 and remove litter for not less than 40 hours and not more
18 than 80 hours. The court shall schedule the time to be spent
19 on such activities in such a manner that it does not
20 interfere with the person's employment and does not interfere
21 substantially with the person's family responsibilities or
22 religious obligations.
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24 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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