PRINTER'S NO. 770
No. 707 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY BRIGHTBILL, SALVATORE, HELFRICK AND JONES,
MARCH 20, 1989
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 20, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for visual signals on authorized
3 vehicles.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4572(a) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 4572. Visual signals on authorized vehicles.
9 (a) Flashing or revolving blue lights.--Ambulance personnel,
10 volunteer firefighters and owners and handlers of dogs used in
11 tracking humans may each equip one motor vehicle with no more
12 than two flashing or revolving blue lights.
13 (1) In order to be eligible to display lights on their
14 vehicles under this subsection, the names of the ambulance
15 personnel and volunteer firefighters shall be submitted to
16 the nearest station of the Pennsylvania State Police on a
17 list signed by the chief of the ambulance or fire department
18 or company and each dog owner and handler shall register at
1 the nearest Pennsylvania State Police station.
2 (2) The manner in which the lights are displayed and
3 their intensity shall be determined by regulation of the
4 department.
5 (3) The lights shall be operable by the driver from
6 inside the vehicle.
7 (4) The lights may be used only [while en route to or]
8 at the scene of a fire or emergency call.
9 (5) The lights shall be removed from the vehicle within
10 ten days of receipt of notice from the chief of the ambulance
11 or fire department or company to remove the lights upon
12 termination of the person's status as an active volunteer
13 firefighter or ambulance person or upon termination of the
14 person's active status as a dog owner or handler, or when the
15 vehicle is no longer used in connection with the person's
16 duties as a volunteer firefighter or ambulance person or dog
17 owner or handler.
18 (6) This subsection does not relieve the driver from the
19 duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons
20 nor exempt the driver from complying with all provisions of
21 this title.
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23 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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