PRINTER'S NO. 554
No. 506 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY CONTI, MURPHY, BELL, SCHWARTZ, KUKOVICH, MELLOW,
STOUT, LEMMOND AND TOMLINSON, MARCH 9, 1999
REFERRED TO CONSUMER PROTECTION AND PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE,
MARCH 9, 1999
AN ACT
1 Requiring certain retail motor vehicle fuel stations to provide
2 fuel and basic services to persons with disabilities at the
3 self-service price; and imposing a penalty.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Short title.
7 This act shall be known and may be cited as the Fuel
8 Stations' Accommodations for Persons with Disabilities Act.
9 Section 2. Definitions.
10 The following words and phrases when used in this act shall
11 have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
12 context clearly indicates otherwise:
13 "Basic maintenance services." Checking the oil and automatic
14 transmission fluid levels in a motor vehicle and cleaning the
15 windshield and rear window of a motor vehicle.
16 "Full-service." A retail motor vehicle fuel station, or a
17 motor vehicle fuel pump, which offers attendant service to the
18 public for the dispensing of motor vehicle fuel into a motor
1 vehicle.
2 "Persons with disabilities." Persons who have been issued a
3 current special registration plate and special parking placard
4 under 75 Pa.C.S. § 1338 (relating to handicapped plate and
5 placard).
6 "Retail motor vehicle fuel station." A place of business
7 where motor vehicle fuel is sold and dispensed into the tanks of
8 motor vehicles, either by means of a self-service or full-
9 service pump.
10 "Self-service." A retail motor vehicle fuel station, or a
11 motor vehicle fuel pump, that offers motor vehicle fuel to the
12 public and where the fuel is dispensed into a motor vehicle by
13 persons other than the service station attendant.
14 Section 3. Fuel and basic maintenance services provided to
15 persons with disabilities.
16 A retail motor vehicle fuel station which offers motor
17 vehicle fuel to the public at both full-service and self-service
18 motor vehicle fuel pumps shall provide fuel and basic
19 maintenance services to persons with disabilities at the self-
20 service motor vehicle fuel pump at the posted self-service price
21 during all hours that the full-service motor vehicle fuel pumps
22 are in operation.
23 Section 4. Penalty.
24 A person who violates this act commits a summary offense and
25 shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less
26 than $100.
27 Section 5. Effective date.
28 This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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