PRINTER'S NO. 1920
No. 1568 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY L. I. COHEN, CRUZ, FEESE, HORSEY, KELLER,
MANDERINO, RUBLEY, B. SMITH, TIGUE, WILT, YOUNGBLOOD,
CREIGHTON, ROSS, SOLOBAY, WASHINGTON, J. TAYLOR, C. WILLIAMS
AND CORRIGAN, MAY 9, 2001
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MAY 9, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for speed timing devices.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Section 3368(c)(2) of Title 75 of the
6 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
7 § 3368. Speed timing devices.
8 * * *
9 (c) Mechanical, electrical and electronic devices
10 authorized.--
11 * * *
12 (2) [Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (3),
13 electronic] Electronic devices [such as] including, but not
14 limited to, radio-microwave devices (commonly referred to as
15 electronic speed meters or radar) may be used [only] by
16 members of the Pennsylvania State Police and by other police
17 officers who have successfully completed a training program
1 conducted by the Pennsylvania State Police. No police
2 officer, other than a member of the Pennsylvania State
3 Police, shall be permitted to use an electronic device until
4 he has successfully completed a training course in the use of
5 such devices conducted by the Pennsylvania State Police.
6 * * *
7 Section 2. The training course described in 75 Pa.C.S. §
8 3368(c)(2) shall commence within one year of the effective date
9 of this act.
10 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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