PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1063 PRINTER'S NO. 3373
No. 944 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY CORRIGAN, ALLEN, BARRAR, BASTIAN, BEBKO-JONES,
BELFANTI, BISHOP, BUNT, BUTKOVITZ, CALTAGIRONE, CAPPABIANCA,
CAWLEY, CIVERA, COLAFELLA, COSTA, CREIGHTON, CRUZ, DeLUCA,
DeWEESE, DiGIROLAMO, EACHUS, LYNCH, LUCYK, LEDERER, LAUGHLIN,
HUTCHINSON, HORSEY, HENNESSEY, HARHAI, GRUCELA, GEORGE,
GEIST, GABIG, McCALL, MELIO, MICOZZIE, ORIE, PALLONE,
PETRARCA, RAYMOND, READSHAW, ROBERTS, ROONEY, RUFFING,
SAINATO, SATHER, SAYLOR, SCHULER, SHANER, SOLOBAY, STEELMAN,
STERN, SURRA, E. Z. TAYLOR, THOMAS, TRELLO, WANSACZ, WATERS,
WATSON, J. WILLIAMS, WOJNAROSKI, YOUNGBLOOD AND YUDICHAK,
MARCH 13, 2001
AS RE-REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MARCH 11, 2002
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, exempting ex-prisoners of war from paying any fees
3 for titling or registration of vehicles.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1901 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 1901. Exemption of persons, entities and vehicles from fees.
9 (a) Governmental and quasi-governmental entities.--Except as
10 otherwise specifically provided in this title, no fees shall be
11 charged under this title to any of the following:
12 (1) The Commonwealth.
13 (2) Political subdivisions.
1 (3) State and local authorities.
2 (4) State-related institutions of higher learning.
3 (5) The Federal Government.
4 (6) Other states.
5 (b) Title and registration fees.--No fee shall be charged
6 for titling or registration of any of the following:
7 (1) Buses registered by urban mass transportation
8 systems.
9 (2) Vehicles registered by volunteer fire, rescue and
10 ambulance associations.
11 (3) Vehicles registered by foreign nationals with the
12 rank of vice consul or higher assigned to a consulate in this
13 Commonwealth provided that citizens of the United States are
14 granted reciprocal exemptions.
15 (4) Vehicles of totally disabled veterans whose
16 disability is certified by the service unit of the armed
17 forces in which the veterans served or by the United States
18 Veterans' Administration as service-connected.
19 (5) Vehicles on loan or transferred to a nonprofit
20 corporation by the United States Department of Defense or the
21 United States General Services Administration and used
22 exclusively for leasing to political subdivisions, State
23 agencies and the Federal Government. Such vehicles shall be
24 issued the same kind of registration plates as are issued to
25 vehicles registered by political subdivisions.
26 (6) A person who, as a member of the armed forces of the
27 United States, was captured by the enemy during World War I,
28 World War II, the Korean Emergency, the Vietnam Conflict or
29 in a future armed conflict for which the Department of
30 Defense authorizes a campaign medal.
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1 (c) Processing fee in lieu of registration fee.--No
2 registration fee shall be charged for vehicles registered by any
3 of the following but the department shall charge a fee of $10 to
4 cover the costs of processing for issuing or renewing the
5 registration:
6 (1) Hospital.
7 (2) Humane society.
8 (3) Nonprofit youth center.
9 (4) American Red Cross.
10 (5) Church.
11 (6) Girl Scouts of America.
12 (7) Boy Scouts of America.
13 (8) Salvation Army.
14 (9) Duly chartered posts of national veterans'
15 organizations.
16 (10) Young Men's Christian Association.
17 (11) Young Men's Hebrew Association.
18 (12) Young Women's Christian Association.
19 (13) Young Women's Hebrew Association.
20 (14) Jewish Community Center.
21 (15) Nonprofit corporations of musical marching groups
22 of youths.
23 (16) Any person who is retired and receiving social
24 security or other pension and whose total annual income does
25 not exceed $19,200. Unless the retired person is physically
26 or mentally incapable of driving the vehicle, the retired
27 person shall be the principal driver of the vehicle but may
28 from time to time authorize another person to drive the
29 vehicle in his or her stead.
30 (17) Any veteran who lost a limb or eye or who became
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1 partially paralyzed while serving in the armed forces of the
2 United States.
3 [(18) A person who, as a member of the armed forces of
4 the United States, was captured by the enemy during World War
5 I, World War II, the Korean Emergency, the Vietnam Conflict
6 or in a future armed conflict for which the Department of
7 Defense authorizes a campaign medal.]
8 (19) Any person who has been awarded the Congressional
9 Medal of Honor.
10 (20) Nonprofit organizations which care for or otherwise
11 provide services for the elderly or the infirm.
12 (21) Nonprofit organizations which principally serve
13 mentally or physically handicapped or disabled persons.
14 (22) Nonprofit mobile aviation museum.
15 (23) Nonprofit corporations that provide ambulance or
16 emergency medical services.
17 (d) Limitations.--
18 (1) Vehicles titled and registered under the provisions
19 of this section shall be operated and used exclusively for
20 the purpose for which the vehicles were entitled to the
21 exemptions from fees.
22 (2) Only one passenger car or truck with a registered
23 gross weight of not more than 9,000 pounds may be registered
24 to any person under the provisions of subsection (b)(4) and
25 subsection (c)(16), (17)[, (18)] and (19).
26 (e) Penalty.--Any person violating the provisions of this
27 section is guilty of a summary offense.
28 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately IN 60 <--
29 DAYS.
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