Bill Text: PA HB893 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for visual signals on authorized vehicles.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 12-7)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2009-03-12 - Referred to TRANSPORTATION [HB893 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB893-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 1012
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 893 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY SIPTROTH, BELFANTI, DENLINGER, FABRIZIO, GOODMAN, GROVE, GRUCELA, KORTZ, KOTIK, KULA, MAHONEY, PAYNE, PETRI, PRESTON, SOLOBAY, TALLMAN AND VULAKOVICH, MARCH 12, 2009
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 12, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, further providing for visual signals on authorized
vehicles.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 4572(a) introductory paragraph, (1) and
(5) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are
amended and subsection (a) is amended by adding a paragraph to
read:
§ 4572. Visual signals on authorized vehicles.
(a) Flashing or revolving blue lights.--Ambulance personnel,
volunteer firefighters, certified volunteer search and rescue
organization members, local emergency coordinators and owners
and handlers of dogs used in tracking humans may each equip one
motor vehicle with no more than two flashing or revolving blue
lights.
(1) In order to be eligible to display lights on their
vehicles under this subsection, the names of the ambulance
personnel, volunteer firefighters and certified volunteer
search and rescue organization members shall be submitted to
the nearest station of the Pennsylvania State Police on a
list signed by the chief of the ambulance or fire department
or company[,] or the head of the search and rescue
organization[, and each]. Each local emergency coordinator
and each [dog] owner and handler of dogs used in tracking
humans shall register at the nearest Pennsylvania State
Police station.
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(5) The lights shall be removed from the vehicle
immediately [upon receipt of notice from the chief of the
ambulance or fire department or company or the head of the
search and rescue organization to remove the lights upon
termination of the person's status as an active volunteer
firefighter or ambulance person or upon termination of the
person's active status as a certified volunteer search and
rescue organization member or dog owner or handler, or when
the vehicle is no longer used in connection with the person's
duties as a volunteer firefighter or ambulance person,
certified volunteer search and rescue organization member or
dog owner or handler.]:
(i) when the individual is no longer serving as an
active ambulance person, volunteer firefighter, certified
volunteer search and rescue organization member, local
emergency coordinator or owner or handler of dogs used in
tracking humans;
(ii) when the vehicle is no longer used in
connection with the person's duties as an ambulance
person, volunteer firefighter, certified volunteer search
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and rescue organization member, local emergency
coordinator or owner or handler of dogs used in tracking
humans; or
(iii) upon the individual's receipt of written notice
from:
(A) the chief of the ambulance company of
termination of the person's status as an active
ambulance person;
(B) the chief of the fire department of the
termination of the person's status as an active
volunteer firefighter;
(C) the head of the search and rescue
organization of the termination of the person's
status as an active certified volunteer search and
rescue organization member;
(D) the appropriate governing body of the
termination of the person's status as an active local
emergency coordinator; or
(E) the appropriate governing unit of the
termination of the person's active status as an owner
or handler of dogs used in tracking humans.
(6) The chief of the ambulance or fire department or
company, the head of the search and rescue organization, the
local emergency coordinator and each owner or handler of dogs
used in tracking humans, as applicable, shall notify the
nearest station of the Pennsylvania State Police when an
individual is no longer authorized under this section to
serve as an active ambulance person, volunteer firefighter,
certified volunteer search and rescue organization member,
local emergency coordinator or owner or handler of dogs used
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in tracking humans.
Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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