THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY HANNA, BRENNAN, CONKLIN, DENLINGER, EVERETT, HESS, HORNAMAN, KULA, LONGIETTI, MAJOR, SAINATO, SIPTROTH, SOLOBAY, STABACK AND YOUNGBLOOD, OCTOBER 9, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 9, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

Statutes, in registration of vehicles, further providing for

period of registration.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 1307(a.1) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 1307.  Period of registration.

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(a.1)  Seasonal registration.--Upon application on a form

prescribed by the department, the owner or lessee of a passenger

car, recreational motor vehicle, motorcycle, truck [or], farm

vehicle or antique, classic and collectible vehicle which does

not have a gross vehicle weight rating of more than 10,000

pounds may register the vehicle with the department for a period

of successive months of less than one year. The applicant shall

specify the period of months during which the vehicle shall be

registered. Except when the department initially converts a

currently valid annual registration to a seasonal registration,

the annual fee prescribed for the vehicle by Chapter 19

(relating to fees) shall be paid in full by the applicant

regardless of the number of months chosen for registration by

the applicant. Upon receipt of the appropriate fee and the

properly completed form, including all information required by

this chapter, the department shall issue a seasonal registration

that shall expire on the last day of the expiration month chosen

by the registrant. No insurer of a vehicle belonging to any

owner or lessee who obtains a seasonal registration and who

applies for or receives a reduced automobile insurance premium

on account thereof shall be required to provide any contractual

coverage, whether in the form of the provision of a defense or

the payment of first-party or third-party benefits or otherwise,

to the owner or lessee in connection with any event occurring

during that part of the year in which the vehicle is not

registered; and such owner or lessee shall be treated for all

purposes, including, without limitation, ascertaining rights to

stack coverages and to uninsured and underinsured motorist

coverage, as a person who does not own that vehicle and has no

duty to carry financial responsibility on it for that part of

the year.

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