PRINTER'S NO. 930
No. 755 Session of 2003
INTRODUCED BY COSTA, TARTAGLIONE, LOGAN, STOUT, O'PAKE, KITCHEN,
BOSCOLA AND FERLO, JUNE 6, 2003
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 6, 2003
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for the authority of police
3 officers.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 6308(b) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 6308. Investigation by police officers.
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10 (b) Authority of police officer.--Whenever a police officer
11 is engaged in a systematic program of checking vehicles or
12 drivers or has [articulable and reasonable grounds to suspect] a
13 reasonable suspicion that a violation of this title has
14 occurred, he may stop a vehicle, upon request or signal, for the
15 purpose of checking the vehicle's registration, proof of
16 financial responsibility, vehicle identification number or
17 engine number or the driver's license, or to secure such other
18 information as the officer may reasonably believe to be
1 necessary to enforce the provisions of this title.
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3 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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