PRINTER'S NO. 2453
No. 1936 Session of 1997
INTRODUCED BY MELIO, FICHTER, TRELLO, TANGRETTI, DALEY,
GIGLIOTTI, DRUCE, COLAIZZO, COLAFELLA, TRAVAGLIO, SHANER,
EACHUS, OLASZ, BOSCOLA, CORPORA, PETRARCA, JAROLIN, STURLA,
STEELMAN, ROBINSON, VAN HORNE, TRICH, YOUNGBLOOD, GRUITZA,
ROBERTS, CASORIO, WALKO, READSHAW, KAISER, RAMOS, KIRKLAND,
HORSEY, JOSEPHS, BATTISTO, PESCI, VEON, COY, ROONEY, GEORGE,
BUXTON, BEBKO-JONES, MUNDY, SAINATO, MARKOSEK, McGEEHAN,
McCALL, STETLER, ITKIN, DeWEESE, SURRA, M. COHEN, BELFANTI,
STABACK, BELARDI, LAUGHLIN, HANNA, CORRIGAN, DeLUCA, CAWLEY,
TIGUE, WOJNAROSKI, C. WILLIAMS, HALUSKA AND MANDERINO,
OCTOBER 21, 1997
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 21, 1997
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for emission inspection
3 expenditures.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4706(b) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 4706. Prohibition on expenditures for emission inspection
9 program.
10 * * *
11 (b) Exception.--The provisions of subsection (a) shall not
12 apply when the secretary shall certify that a system is required
13 to comply with Federal law and is necessary for the Commonwealth
14 to receive or avoid the loss of Federal funds in which case the
1 department may establish and administer such a system for motor
2 vehicles registered in areas where periodic inspection of
3 emissions or emission systems of motor vehicles is required by
4 the Environmental Protection Agency of the United States or
5 decrees of the courts of the United States. The program may not
6 require vehicle emission inspections on a more frequent than
7 biennial basis.
8 * * *
9 Section 2. The provisions of 67 Pa. Code § 177.51(c) are
10 abrogated.
11 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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