SENATE AMENDED PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 76, 1069 PRINTER'S NO. 1415
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, MILLER AND EACHUS, JANUARY 28, 1997
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, IN SENATE, APRIL 8, 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; and making appropriations. <-- 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. 9 * * * 10 (a.1) Seasonal registration.--Upon application on a form 11 prescribed by the department, the owner or lessee of a passenger 12 car, RECREATIONAL MOTOR VEHICLE, motorcycle, truck or farm <-- 13 vehicle which does not have a gross vehicle weight rating of 14 more than 9,000 pounds or the owner or lessee of a motor home as <-- 15 defined in section 102 (relating to definitions) may register 16 the vehicle with the department for a period of successive
1 months of less than one year. The applicant shall specify the 2 period of months during which the vehicle shall be registered. 3 Except when the department initially converts a currently valid 4 annual registration to a seasonal registration, the annual fee 5 prescribed for the vehicle by Chapter 19 (relating to fees) 6 shall be paid in full by the applicant regardless of the number 7 of months chosen for registration by the applicant. Upon receipt 8 of the appropriate fee and the properly completed form, 9 including all information required by this chapter, the 10 department shall issue a seasonal registration that shall expire 11 on the last day of the expiration month chosen by the 12 registrant. No insurer of a vehicle belonging to any owner or 13 lessee who obtains a seasonal registration and who applies for 14 or receives a reduced automobile insurance premium on account 15 thereof shall be required to provide any contractual coverage, 16 whether in the form of the provision of a defense or the payment 17 of first-party or third-party benefits or otherwise, to the 18 owner or lessee in connection with any event occurring during 19 that part of the year in which the vehicle is not registered; 20 and such owner or lessee shall be treated for all purposes, 21 including, without limitation, ascertaining rights to stack 22 coverages and to uninsured and underinsured motorist coverage, 23 as a person who does not own that vehicle and has no duty to 24 carry financial responsibility on it for that part of the year. 25 * * * 26 Section 2. (a) In addition to any other appropriations or <-- 27 executive authorizations for State highway maintenance for the 28 1996-1997 fiscal year, the sum of $50,000,000 is hereby 29 appropriated from the Motor License Fund to the Department of 30 Transportation for State highway maintenance surface 19970H0067B1415 - 2 -
1 improvement. Twenty-five million dollars of this appropriation 2 shall be allocated to each county based on its percentage of 3 lane miles to the total lane miles of all State highways. The 4 remaining $25,000,000 shall be allocated to each county based on 5 its percentage of vehicle miles traveled to the total vehicle 6 miles traveled on all State highways. These funds shall be 7 targeted to those highways having poorest road quality in each 8 county as determined by the department. This shall be a two-year 9 continuing appropriation. 10 (b) In addition to any other revenues received by the Public 11 Transportation Assistance Fund, the sum of $25,000,000 is hereby 12 appropriated to that fund from the General Fund for the 1996- 13 1997 fiscal year to be distributed in a manner consistent with 14 74 Pa.C.S. Ch. 13. This appropriation may be used for capital 15 projects or asset maintenance at the discretion of the transit 16 entities. 17 Section 3 2. This act shall take effect immediately. <-- L11L75JRW/19970H0067B1415 - 3 -