Bill Text: PA HB2614 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for definitions, for traffic-control signals, for pedestrian-control signals and for right-of-way of pedestrians in crosswalks.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 22-10)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2012-09-17 - Referred to TRANSPORTATION [HB2614 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-HB2614-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 4014
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2614 Session of2012
INTRODUCED BY MARSICO, R. BROWN, CALTAGIRONE, D. COSTA, DALEY, DAVIS, D. EVANS, GILLESPIE, GINGRICH, HARRIS, HESS, KILLION, KOTIK, MAJOR, MILLER, MUNDY, PICKETT, READSHAW, ROCK, SACCONE, SAYLOR, TALLMAN, VEREB, WATSON, FABRIZIO, MILNE, STABACK AND EVERETT, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, SEPTEMBER 17, 2012
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, further providing for definitions, for traffic-
control signals, for pedestrian-control signals and for
right-of-way of pedestrians in crosswalks.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 102 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a definition to read:
§ 102. Definitions.
Subject to additional definitions contained in subsequent
provisions of this title which are applicable to specific
provisions of this title, the following words and phrases when
used in this title shall have, unless the context clearly
indicates otherwise, the meanings given to them in this section:
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"Half of the roadway." All traffic lanes conveying traffic
in one direction of travel and the entire width of a one-way
roadway.
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Section 2. Section 3112(a) is amended by adding a paragraph
and the section is amended by adding a subsection to read:
§ 3112. Traffic-control signals.
(a) General rule.--Whenever traffic is controlled by
traffic-control signals exhibiting different colored lights, or
colored lighted arrows, successively one at a time or in
combination, only the colors green, red and yellow shall be
used, except for special pedestrian signals carrying a word
legend, and the lights shall indicate and apply to drivers of
vehicles and pedestrians as follows:
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(4) Pedestrians lawfully within intersection or adjacent
crosswalk.--The driver of a vehicle required to yield the
right-of-way to pedestrians lawfully within the intersection
or an adjacent crosswalk shall stop and remain stopped for a
pedestrian crossing a roadway at a crosswalk when the
pedestrian is upon, or within one lane of, the half of the
roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or onto which it
is turning.
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(d) Penalties.--A driver of a vehicle who violates this
section commits a summary offense and shall, upon conviction, be
sentenced to pay:
(1) Except as set forth under paragraph (2), a fine of
$50.
(2) For a violation of subsection (a), a fine of not
less than $200 if the violation occurred in a school zone as
defined and established under regulations of the department.
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Section 3. Section 3113(c) of Title 75 is amended and the
section is amended by adding a subsection to read:
§ 3113. Pedestrian-control signals.
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(a.1) Duty of driver.--The driver of a vehicle required to
yield the right-of-way to a pedestrian under subsection (a)(1),
(3) or (4) shall stop and remain stopped to allow a pedestrian
to cross the roadway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is
upon, or within one lane of, the half of the roadway upon which
the vehicle is traveling or onto which it is turning.
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(c) Penalties.--[The driver of a vehicle who violates
subsection (a) commits a summary offense and, upon conviction,
shall be sentenced to pay a fine of $50. This subsection] A
driver of a vehicle who violates this section commits a summary
offense and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay:
(1) Except as set forth under paragraph (2), a fine of
$50.
(2) For a violation of subsection (a), a fine of not
less than $200 if the violation occurred in a school zone as
defined and established under regulations of the department.
(d) Applicability.--Subsection (c) shall not apply to those
municipalities that establish a summary offense as authorized
under subsection (b) with a fine in excess of $50.
Section 4. Section 3542(a) and (e) of Title 75 are amended
to read:
§ 3542. Right-of-way of pedestrians in crosswalks.
(a) General rule.--When traffic-control signals are not in
place or not in operation, the driver of a vehicle shall yield
the right-of-way to a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any
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marked crosswalk or within any unmarked crosswalk at an
intersection. The driver of a vehicle shall stop and remain
stopped to allow a pedestrian to cross the roadway within a
marked crosswalk or within an unmarked crosswalk at an
intersection when the pedestrian is upon, or within one lane of,
the half of the roadway upon which the vehicle is traveling or
onto which it is turning.
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(e) Penalties.--[The driver of a vehicle who violates
subsection (a) commits a summary offense and shall, upon
conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of $50.] A driver of a
vehicle who violates this section commits a summary offense and
shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay:
(1) Except as set forth under paragraph (2), a fine of
$50.
(2) For a violation of subsection (a), a fine of not
less than $200 if the violation occurred in a school zone as
defined and established under regulations of the department.
Section 5. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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