Bill Text: PA HB297 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In size, weight and load, further providing for restrictions on use of highways and bridges.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 24-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-02-09 - Referred to TRANSPORTATION [HB297 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB297-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 320
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 297 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY LONGIETTI, DeWEESE, KOTIK, MARSHALL, McILVAINE SMITH, PASHINSKI, SIPTROTH, STEVENSON, WHITE, CALTAGIRONE, BAKER, CARROLL, EVERETT, GEORGE, GIBBONS, HARKINS, HARPER, HORNAMAN, KORTZ, MAHONEY, MANN, MELIO, PETRARCA, PRESTON, K. SMITH, SOLOBAY, STURLA, YOUNGBLOOD AND BRENNAN, FEBRUARY 9, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 9, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, in size, weight and load, further providing for
restrictions on use of highways and bridges.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 4902(f) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
§ 4902. Restrictions on use of highways and bridges.
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(f) [Actions to be in accordance with department] Department
regulations.--All actions taken under authority of this section
shall be taken in accordance with department regulations. The
department shall publish a revised schedule of bonding amounts
based on increased or decreased maintenance costs by January 1,
2011, and at least every three years thereafter. Furthermore,
department regulations shall, by January 1, 2011, reflect a
rebuttable presumption in favor of the municipality and against
the over-posted-weight permittee for damage sustained to posted
highways used by such permittee.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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