PRINTER'S NO. 2772
No. 2174 Session of 1982
INTRODUCED BY MURPHY AND DAWIDA, JANUARY 20, 1982
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 20, 1982
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of January 22, 1968 (P.L.42, No.8), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act empowering and authorizing the Department
3 of Transportation to establish and administer certain grant
4 programs for the betterment of mass transportation systems
5 and facilities throughout the Commonwealth; providing for
6 State grants to transportation companies, municipalities,
7 counties, or their instrumentalities and to agencies and
8 instrumentalities of the Commonwealth for studies, research,
9 demonstration programs, promotion programs, purchase of
10 service projects, and capital improvement projects under
11 certain conditions; authorizing grants by counties or
12 municipalities in metropolitan areas to local transportation
13 organizations, authorizing the creation of a transportation
14 authority to function in each metropolitan area consisting of
15 any county of the first class and all nearby counties within
16 a radius of twenty miles of any such first class county, as a
17 body corporate and politic for the purpose of establishing an
18 integrated mass transportation system with all pertinent
19 powers including, but not limited to, leasing, acquiring,
20 owning, operating and maintaining a system for, or otherwise
21 providing for, the transportation of persons, authorizing the
22 borrowing of money and issuance of bonds therefor, conferring
23 the right of eminent domain on the authority; altering the
24 jurisdiction of the Public Utility Commission, authorizing
25 the acceptance of grants from Federal, State and local
26 governments, limiting actions against the authority and
27 exempting it from taxation, authorizing counties and
28 municipalities to enter into compacts for the financing of
29 each authority and to make appropriations in accordance with
30 such compacts, creating a citizen advisory committee,
31 conferring exclusive jurisdiction upon certain courts with
32 respect to matters relating to such authority, empowering
33 each authority to function outside of the metropolitan area
1 under certain terms and conditions," removing limitation on
2 peak riding hours.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. Subclause (i) of clause (5) of section 203, act
6 of January 22, 1968 (P.L.42, No.8), known as the "Pennsylvania
7 Urban Mass Transportation Law," added July 10, 1980 (P.L.427,
8 No.101), is amended to read:
9 Section 203. Program Authorizations.--The department is
10 hereby authorized, within the limitations hereinafter provided
11 and is required where the provisions of section 204 apply:
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13 (5) To make grants from the State Lottery Fund to
14 transportation companies, county transportation systems and
15 local transportation organizations to pay estimated transit
16 losses resulting from providing:
17 (i) Free service or local common carrier mass transportation
18 systems to persons sixty-five years or older [when such passage
19 is on fixed route public transportation services during nonpeak
20 riding hours and on holidays and weekends]. The losses resulting
21 from granting service on mass transportation systems shall be
22 reimbursable at seventy-five percent of such system's average
23 fare multiplied by the number of trips made by senior citizens
24 participating in such free transit program. Transit systems that
25 currently receive a program reimbursement based upon a
26 percentage of average fare greater than seventy-five percent
27 shall receive their current amount of senior citizen program
28 reimbursement until such time as the amount of reimbursement for
29 these systems equals seventy-five percent of the average fare
30 times the number of senior citizens trips: Provided, however,
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1 That reimbursement for the fiscal year 1980-1981 shall be
2 calculated using the average fares as of January 1, 1980.
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4 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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