PRINTER'S NO. 2835
No. 2175 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY LAUGHLIN, SOLOBAY, BELFANTI, WALKO, READSHAW,
COSTA AND ROONEY, JANUARY 10, 2000
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 10, 2000
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for investigation by police
3 officers.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 6308(a) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 6308. Investigation by police officers.
9 (a) Duty of operator or pedestrian.--The operator of any
10 vehicle or any pedestrian reasonably believed to have violated
11 any provision of this title shall stop upon request or signal of
12 any police officer and shall, upon request, exhibit a
13 registration card, driver's license and information relating to
14 financial responsibility, or other means of identification if a
15 pedestrian or driver of a pedalcycle, and shall write their name
16 in the presence of the police officer if so required for the
17 purpose of establishing identity. In addition to the above, the
18 operator of any vehicle stopped upon reasonable belief of a
1 violation of any provision of this title shall immediately
2 illuminate the interior lights of the vehicle and place his or
3 her hands upon the steering wheel of the vehicle.
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5 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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