PRINTER'S NO. 1276
No. 1045 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY O'PAKE, STAPLETON, WAGNER, EARLL, KITCHEN, BELAN,
BODACK, SCHWARTZ, COSTA, RHOADES AND BOSCOLA, JULY 1, 1999
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, JULY 1, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for signs for public attractions.
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 § 6109.1. Public attractions.
8 (a) General rule.--Upon the request of the owner of any
9 public attraction, the department shall install directional
10 signs thereto at the nearest intersections along principal and
11 arterial access routes. The department shall have no obligation
12 to install such signs until the reasonable costs of obtaining
13 and installing the signs have been paid by the owner, but shall
14 proceed to do so within a reasonable time thereafter.
15 (b) Other signs permitted.--This section shall not be
16 interpreted to prohibit the department from otherwise installing
17 such directional signs as it determines to be appropriate or
18 necessary.
1 (c) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following
2 words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this
3 subsection:
4 "Arterial access route." A State-owned highway connecting
5 within five miles of the public attraction to a principal access
6 route or to a local highway leading directly thereto.
7 "Principal access route." A State-owned highway connecting
8 within one-and-one-half miles of the public attraction to the
9 local highway leading directly thereto.
10 "Public attraction." A sports, historic, entertainment,
11 tourist, recreation or cultural site and surrounding grounds
12 open on not less than 25 dates yearly, and having an average
13 daily or event attendance of not less than 1,500 people and
14 average annual attendance of not less than 50,000 persons.
15 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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