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

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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

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PRINTER'S NO. 2921
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2096 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY CRUZ, YOUNGBLOOD AND DONATUCCI, NOVEMBER 17, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, NOVEMBER 17, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, further providing for applicability of traffic laws
to pedalcycles in cities of the first class.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 3501 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 3501. Applicability of traffic laws to pedalcycles.
(a) General rule.--[Every] Except as provided in subsection
(a.1), every person riding a pedalcycle upon a roadway shall be
granted all of the rights and shall be subject to all of the
duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle by this title,
except as to special provisions in this subchapter and except as
to those provisions of this title which by their nature can have
no application.
(a.1) Cities of the first class.--In addition to the laws
applicable to pedacylces, every person riding a pedalcycle in a
city of the first class shall be subject to all of the duties
imposed by this title upon the driver of a motorcycle.
(b) Application of subchapter.--The provisions of this
subchapter apply whenever a pedalcycle is operated upon any
highway or upon any path set aside for the exclusive use of
pedalcycles subject to the exceptions stated in subsection (a).
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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