Bill Text: PA HB155 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Further providing for speed timing devices and for weighing and measurement of vehicles.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-06-17 - Referred to TRANSPORTATION [HB155 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB155-Amended.html

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PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 151, 1978 PRINTER'S NO. 2040
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 155 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY SOLOBAY, BARRAR, BEYER, CARROLL, CREIGHTON, GROVE, GRUCELA, HARKINS, MAHONEY, McILVAINE SMITH, MILLER, SIPTROTH, MATZIE, MURT AND CALTAGIRONE, JANUARY 30, 2009
AS AMENDED ON SECOND CONSIDERATION, HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, JUNE 8, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, further providing for speed timing devices and for
weighing and measurement of vehicles.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 3368(d) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, amended November 26, 2008 (P.L.1658,
No.133), is amended to read:
§ 3368. Speed timing devices.
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(d) Classification, approval and testing of mechanical,
electrical and electronic devices.--The department may, by
regulation, classify specific devices as being mechanical,
electrical or electronic. All mechanical, electrical or
electronic devices shall be of a type approved by the
department, which shall appoint stations for calibrating and
testing the devices and may prescribe regulations as to the
manner in which calibrations and tests shall be made. The
certification and calibration of electronic devices under
subsection (c)(3) shall also include the certification and
calibration of all equipment, timing strips and other devices
which are actually used with the particular electronic device
being certified and calibrated. Electronic devices commonly
referred to as electronic speed meters or radar shall have been
tested for accuracy within a period of one year prior to the
alleged violation. Other devices shall have been tested for
accuracy within a period of [60 days] six months prior to the
alleged violation. A certificate from the station showing that
the calibration and test were made within the required period
and that the device was accurate shall be competent and prima
facie evidence of those facts in every proceeding in which a
violation of this title is charged.
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Section 2. Section 4981(e) of Title 75 is amended to read:
§ 4981. Weighing and measurement of vehicles.
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(e) Certification of accuracy of portable scales.--Portable <--
(1) Portable scales shall be calibrated [every 90 days] <--
annually, following any event that could affect the accuracy <--
of the scale or following repairs or failures for the purpose
of certification of accuracy by the Department of General
Services. A certificate from the Department of General
Services showing that portable scales were calibrated and
found to be accurate shall be competent and prima facie
evidence of those facts in every proceeding in which a
violation of this chapter is charged.
(2) Portable scales shall be calibrated as follows: <--
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(i) Annually.
(ii) Following any event that could affect the
accuracy of the portable scale or following repairs or
failures. If a portable scale is calibrated under this
subparagraph, the portable scale shall not need to be
calibrated for a period of one year.
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Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately in 90 <--
days.
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