PRINTER'S NO. 605
No. 579 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY CASORIO, M. COHEN, THOMAS, VAN HORNE, MELIO,
WALKO, PETRARCA, SOLOBAY, READSHAW, BEBKO-JONES, TRELLO,
LAUGHLIN, L. I. COHEN, MAHER, DALEY, HORSEY, RAMOS AND
STEELMAN, FEBRUARY 16, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 16, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for homicide by vehicle.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 3732 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
6 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
7 § 3732. Homicide by vehicle.
8 Any person who unintentionally causes the death of another
9 person while engaged in the violation of any law of this
10 Commonwealth or municipal ordinance applying to the operation or
11 use of a vehicle or to the regulation of traffic except section
12 3731 (relating to driving under influence of alcohol or
13 controlled substance) is guilty of homicide by vehicle, a
14 [misdemeanor of the first degree] felony of the third degree,
15 when the violation is the cause of death.
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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