PRINTER'S NO. 2241
No. 1564 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY WAUGH, COSTA, MELLOW, CORMAN, BELL, TILGHMAN,
WENGER AND RHOADES, OCTOBER 11, 2000
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 11, 2000
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, providing for rights of property owners and
3 residents.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
7 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
8 § 7305.1. Rights of property owners and residents.
9 An owner of any real property or resident or leaseholder
10 thereof or person in control of the property on which there is
11 an abandoned vehicle may request authorization by the police
12 department to remove or have removed the abandoned vehicle to
13 the storage facility of a duly-authorized salvor. Upon such
14 request, the police department may authorize the removal. Any
15 salvor agreeing to take possession of an abandoned vehicle
16 pursuant to this section shall within 48 hours comply with the
17 provisions of section 7304 (relating to reports to department of
18 possession of abandoned vehicles). Proper notification of the
1 removal of the vehicle shall be sent pursuant to section 7305
2 (relating to notice to owner and lienholders of abandoned
3 vehicles).
4 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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