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PRINTER'S NO. 33
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
54
Session of
2021
INTRODUCED BY KEEFER, GLEIM, RYAN, METZGAR, ROTHMAN, ECKER,
GROVE, IRVIN, ZIMMERMAN, COX, SAYLOR, MOUL AND WHEELAND,
JANUARY 11, 2021
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 11, 2021
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in powers of department and local authorities,
further providing for promulgation of rules and regulations
by department.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 6103(c)(1) of Title 75 of the
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 6103. Promulgation of rules and regulations by department.
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(c) Adoption of Federal statute, regulation, standard or
criteria.--The department shall be authorized to adopt by
reference any Federal statute, regulation, standard or criteria
or provision thereof relating to vehicles or drivers, including,
but not limited to, minimum driver qualifications, maximum hours
of service, loading, unloading, hazardous materials, operation,
equipment, records and inspection.
(1) The department shall be authorized to extend the
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coverage of any Federal statute, regulation, standard or
criteria adopted under this subsection to vehicles and
drivers operating only in intrastate commerce, except as
follows:
(iii) No Federal statute, regulation, standard or
criteria shall be extended to cover farm tractors or
drivers of farm tractors, regardless of whether the farm
tractor is operated as a combination.
(iv) No Federal statute, regulation, standard or
criteria shall be extended to cover implements of
husbandry other than farm tractors, farm vehicles or
drivers of these vehicles, regardless of whether the
vehicle is operated as a combination, provided that:
(A) the vehicle's or combination's gross weight,
gross vehicle weight rating or gross combination
weight rating does not equal or exceed 26,001 pounds;
(B) the vehicle or combination is not carrying
hazardous materials in an amount that requires the
towing or towed vehicle to be placarded under Chapter
83 (relating to hazardous materials transportation);
and
(C) the vehicle or combination is not designed
or used to transport 16 or more people, including the
driver.
(v) For purposes of [this paragraph] subparagraphs
(iii) and (iv), the term "farm tractors" includes
tractors designed for off-road agricultural use,
combines, crop pickers, crop and forage harvesters,
threshers, plows, tillers, planters, seeders, field
sprayers, forage cutters, balers and similar vehicles
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that are infrequently operated or moved upon highways and
that are used by a farmer in agricultural production.
(vi) No Federal statute, regulation, standard or
criteria shall be extended to cover a motor vehicle
transporting property along a highway, regardless of
whether the motor vehicle is operated as a combination,
provided that:
(A) the vehicle's or combination's gross weight,
gross vehicle weight rating or gross combination
weight rating does not equal or exceed 26,001 pounds;
(B) the vehicle or combination is not carrying
hazardous materials in an amount that requires the
towing or towed vehicle to be placarded under Chapter
83; and
(C) the vehicle or combination is not designed
or used to transport 16 or more people, including the
driver.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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