THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY TALLMAN, BEAR, COHEN, D. COSTA, CUTLER, DAY, DeLUCA, DONATUCCI, GILLEN, GODSHALL, GROVE, HAHN, HEFFLEY, JOSEPHS, MILLER, MOUL, MURPHY, MURT, PASHINSKI, PYLE, K. SMITH AND WATSON, MAY 4, 2011

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 4, 2011  

AN ACT

Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, further providing for nonreciprocity of operational

limitations.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 6154 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 6154.  Nonreciprocity of operational limitations.

(a)  General rule.--If any other state with which the

department has entered into a reciprocity agreement, including

the International Registration Plan, imposes an operational

limitation, burden or prohibition upon vehicles with a base

jurisdiction of Pennsylvania but not upon vehicles with a base

jurisdiction of the other state, the Commonwealth shall impose a

like operational limitation, burden or prohibition upon the same

class of vehicles that are operating in this Commonwealth but

based in the other state. Operational limitations shall include

the maximum weight, width, length or height of a vehicle.

(b)  Penalty.--A person who violates this section commits a

summary offense and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay

a fine of not less than $500 and not more than $1,000 for each

violation.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.