PRINTER'S NO. 2247
No. 1795 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY CASORIO, TANGRETTI, VAN HORNE, TRELLO, WALKO, WOJNAROSKI, THOMAS, ROONEY, DeLUCA, HORSEY, MARKOSEK, BOSCOLA, EGOLF AND BROWNE, SEPTEMBER 24, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1997
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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