PRINTER'S NO. 2844
No. 2160 Session of 1998
INTRODUCED BY ROBERTS, STABACK, GEIST, JOSEPHS, YOUNGBLOOD,
COLAFELLA, RAMOS AND KIRKLAND, FEBRUARY 2, 1998
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, FEBRUARY 2, 1998
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for use of unmarked police vehicles.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
6 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
7 § 6304.1. Use of unmarked police vehicles.
8 (a) Stopping vehicles.--A police officer may not attempt to
9 stop a moving vehicle for a summary traffic offense while
10 driving a vehicle which is not clearly identifiable by its
11 markings as a police vehicle.
12 (b) Use of unmarked vehicle.--Nothing in subsection (a)
13 shall prohibit the use of unmarked police vehicles in other
14 traffic law enforcement activities excluding actual traffic
15 pursuits and stops.
16 (c) Following vehicles.--Officers in full uniform in
17 unmarked cars who observe a traffic violation may follow the
1 subject vehicle until a marked police vehicle can engage in the
2 actual traffic stop. Officers engaging in following in an
3 unmarked car shall wear their uniform hats and turn on the
4 interior dome lights of their vehicles so that the motorist can
5 see them.
6 (d) Public notice.--The Pennsylvania State Police shall
7 effectively publicize this limitation on unmarked police cars
8 for at least five years from the date of enactment.
9 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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