PRINTER'S NO. 76
No. 67 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY LLOYD, GEIST, BELARDI, JAROLIN, GORDNER, OLASZ,
ITKIN, GODSHALL, CLARK, FEESE, FAIRCHILD, FARGO,
E. Z. TAYLOR, STABACK, JAMES, ROHRER, SURRA, McCALL, BOSCOLA,
BROWN, HERSHEY, RAMOS, MIHALICH, TANGRETTI AND MILLER,
JANUARY 28, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 28, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for vehicle registration periods
3 of less than one year.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1307(a.1) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 1307. Period of registration.
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10 (a.1) Seasonal registration.--Upon application on a form
11 prescribed by the department, the owner or lessee of a passenger
12 car, motorcycle, truck or farm vehicle which does not have a
13 gross vehicle weight rating of more than 9,000 pounds or the
14 owner or lessee of a motor home as defined in section 102
15 (relating to definitions) may register the vehicle with the
16 department for a period of successive months of less than one
17 year. The applicant shall specify the period of months during
1 which the vehicle shall be registered. Except when the
2 department initially converts a currently valid annual
3 registration to a seasonal registration, the annual fee
4 prescribed for the vehicle by Chapter 19 (relating to fees)
5 shall be paid in full by the applicant regardless of the number
6 of months chosen for registration by the applicant. Upon receipt
7 of the appropriate fee and the properly completed form,
8 including all information required by this chapter, the
9 department shall issue a seasonal registration that shall expire
10 on the last day of the expiration month chosen by the
11 registrant. No insurer of a vehicle belonging to any owner or
12 lessee who obtains a seasonal registration and who applies for
13 or receives a reduced automobile insurance premium on account
14 thereof shall be required to provide any contractual coverage,
15 whether in the form of the provision of a defense or the payment
16 of first-party or third-party benefits or otherwise, to the
17 owner or lessee in connection with any event occurring during
18 that part of the year in which the vehicle is not registered;
19 and such owner or lessee shall be treated for all purposes,
20 including, without limitation, ascertaining rights to stack
21 coverages and to uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage,
22 as a person who does not own that vehicle and has no duty to
23 carry financial responsibility on it for that part of the year.
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25 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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