PRINTER'S NO. 2242
No. 1565 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY WAUGH, COSTA, TOMLINSON, MELLOW AND TILGHMAN, OCTOBER 11, 2000
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, OCTOBER 11, 2000
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
2 Statutes, further providing for vehicles of nonresidents
3 exempt from registration.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1303(a) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 1303. Vehicles of nonresidents exempt from registration.
9 (a) General rule.--A nonresident owner of any foreign
10 vehicle may operate or permit the operation of the vehicle
11 within this Commonwealth by another nonresident or an employee
12 without registering the vehicle in this Commonwealth or paying
13 any fees to the Commonwealth, provided the vehicle at all times
14 when operated in this Commonwealth is duly registered and in
15 full compliance with the registration requirements of the place
16 of residence of the owner and further provided the vehicle is
17 not:
18 (1) used for the transportation of persons for hire,
1 compensation or profit; 2 (2) regularly operated in carrying on business within 3 this Commonwealth; 4 (3) designed, used or maintained primarily for the 5 transportation of property for hire, compensation or profit 6 and not subject to reciprocity under section 6144 (relating 7 to vehicle registration and licensing) or 6149 (relating to 8 automatic reciprocity); or 9 (4) special mobile equipment if not also required to be 10 and actually registered under the laws of the place of 11 residence of the owner. 12 * * * 13 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. H28L75DMS/20000S1565B2242 - 2 -