PRINTER'S NO. 2117
No. 1522 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY CONTI, COSTA, TOMLINSON, MOWERY, WAUGH, BOSCOLA,
LEMMOND AND TILGHMAN, SEPTEMBER 19, 2000
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, SEPTEMBER 19, 2000
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for meeting or overtaking a
3 school bus.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 3345(a) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 3345. Meeting or overtaking school bus.
9 (a) Duty of approaching driver when red signals are
10 flashing.--Except as provided in subsection (g), the driver of a
11 vehicle meeting or overtaking any school bus stopped on a
12 highway or trafficway shall stop at least ten feet before
13 reaching the school bus when the red signal lights on the school
14 bus are flashing and the side stop signal arms are activated
15 under section 4552(b.1) (relating to general requirements for
16 school buses). The driver shall not proceed until the flashing
17 red signal lights are no longer actuated. In no event shall a
18 driver of a vehicle resume motion of the vehicle until the
1 school children who may have alighted from the school bus have
2 reached a place of safety. The driver of a vehicle approaching
3 an intersection or a trafficway at which a school bus is stopped
4 shall stop his vehicle at that intersection or trafficway until
5 the flashing red signal lights are no longer actuated.
6 * * *
7 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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