PRINTER'S NO. 2811
No. 2151 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY BATTISTO, ARGALL, ORIE, TIGUE, BELARDI, M. COHEN,
COSTA, FRANKEL, GEIST, HALUSKA, HARHAI, LAUGHLIN, McCALL,
MELIO, READSHAW, SEYFERT, SHANER, SOLOBAY, WILT, YOUNGBLOOD,
BROWNE, J. TAYLOR, PIPPY, TRELLO, WILLIAMS AND STABACK,
DECEMBER 13, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, DECEMBER 13, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for a special animal shelter registration
3 plate; and establishing the Animal Shelter Fund and the
4 Animal Shelter Advisory Committee.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
9 § 1361. Special plate for animal shelters.
10 The department, in consultation with the Animal Shelter
11 Advisory Committee, shall design a special animal shelter
12 registration plate. Upon application of any person, accompanied
13 by a fee of $20 which shall be in addition to the annual
14 registration fee and by such documentation as the department
15 shall require, the department shall issue to such person the
16 plate for a passenger vehicle or truck with a gross vehicle
17 weight rating of not more than 9,000 pounds. The Animal Shelter
1 Fund shall receive $20 of the fee paid by the applicant for the
2 plate.
3 Section 2. Section 1905 of Title 75 is amended by adding a
4 subsection to read:
5 § 1905. Payments to special funds.
6 * * *
7 (d) Animal Shelter Fund.--
8 (1) Twenty dollars of each fee received under section
9 1361 (relating to special plate for animal shelters) shall be
10 credited to the Animal Shelter Fund, which is hereby
11 established as a separate account in the State Treasury. The
12 moneys in this account are hereby appropriated to the
13 Department of Agriculture on a continuing basis to fund such
14 lawful projects as may be recommended by the Animal Shelter
15 Advisory Committee established pursuant to paragraph (2).
16 (2) There is hereby established within the Department of
17 Agriculture an Animal Shelter Advisory Committee, consisting
18 of 15 members appointed by the Governor. Initially five
19 members shall be appointed for one-year terms, five members
20 shall be appointed for two-year terms and five members shall
21 be appointed for three-year terms. Thereafter all members
22 shall be appointed for three-year terms, except in the case
23 of appointments to fill vacancies occurring for any reason
24 before the expiration of a term, in which case the
25 appointment to fill the vacancy shall be for the balance of
26 the unexpired term. Members shall receive no compensation for
27 their services other than reasonable expenses for attending
28 meetings, to be determined by regulation of the Department of
29 Agriculture.
30 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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