Bill Text: PA HB2096 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced


Bill Title: Further providing for applicability of traffic laws to pedalcycles in cities of the first class.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-11-17 - Referred to TRANSPORTATION [HB2096 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2096-Introduced.html

  

 

    

PRINTER'S NO.  2921

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

HOUSE BILL

 

No.

2096

Session of

2009

  

  

INTRODUCED BY CRUZ, YOUNGBLOOD AND DONATUCCI, NOVEMBER 17, 2009

  

  

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, NOVEMBER 17, 2009  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated

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Statutes, further providing for applicability of traffic laws

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to pedalcycles in cities of the first class.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 3501 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

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§ 3501.  Applicability of traffic laws to pedalcycles.

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(a)  General rule.--[Every] Except as provided in subsection

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(a.1), every person riding a pedalcycle upon a roadway shall be

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granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the

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duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this title,

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except as to special provisions in this subchapter and except as

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to those provisions of this title which by their nature can have

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no application.

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(a.1)  Cities of the first class.--In addition to the laws

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applicable to pedacylces, every person riding a pedalcycle in a

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city of the first class shall be subject to all of the duties

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imposed by this title upon the driver of a motorcycle.

 


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(b)  Application of subchapter.--The provisions of this

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subchapter apply whenever a pedalcycle is operated upon any

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highway or upon any path set aside for the exclusive use of

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pedalcycles subject to the exceptions stated in subsection (a).

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

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