Bill Text: PA HB745 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for penalties.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-5)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-02-14 - Referred to CONSUMER AFFAIRS [HB745 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2013-HB745-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 847

 

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

 

HOUSE BILL

No.

745

Session of 2013

 

 

 

INTRODUCED BY MULLERY, DONATUCCI, KAVULICH, MILLARD, SCHLOSSBERG, MUNDY, COHEN, V. BROWN, CARROLL, KORTZ, MOUL, READSHAW, MURT AND PARKER, FEBRUARY 14, 2013

 

 

REFERRED TO COMMITEE ON CONSUMER AFFAIRS, FEBRUARY 14, 2013

 

 

 

AN ACT

 

Amending the act of October 9, 2008 (P.L.1408, No.113), entitled
"An act requiring scrap processors and recycling facility
operators to collect certain information relating to the
purchase of scrap material; requiring commercial accounts;
and restricting scrap processors and recycling facility
operators from purchasing certain materials," further
providing for penalties.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 7 of the act of October 9, 2008
(P.L.1408, No.113), known as the Scrap Material Theft Prevention
Act, is amended to read:

Section 7. Penalties.

A scrap processor and recycling facility operator who
violates this act commits a [summary offense and shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of up to $2,500]
misdemeanor of the third degree and upon conviction shall be 
sentenced to pay a fine of up to $5,000. A second or subsequent
violation shall be classified as a misdemeanor of the [third]
second degree and, upon conviction, the violator shall be 

sentenced to pay a fine of up to $10,000.

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