Bill Text: PA SB1179 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Further providing for speed timing devices.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2011-11-15 - Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS [SB1179 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2011-SB1179-Amended.html

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PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1421 PRINTER'S NO. 1682
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 1179 Session of2011
INTRODUCED BY SOLOBAY, FONTANA, BROWNE, FERLO AND WASHINGTON, JUNE 23, 2011
SENATOR RAFFERTY, TRANSPORTATION, AS AMENDED, OCTOBER 18, 2011
AN ACT
Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes, further providing for speed timing devices.
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 is amended and the section is amended by <--
adding a subsection 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] Except as provided under subsection <--
(d.1), other devices shall have been tested for accuracy within
a period of [60 days] six months 180 days 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.
(d.1) Deemed tested.--Any mechanical, electrical or <--
electronic device, other than electronic devices commonly
referred to as electronic speed meters or radar, which have been
tested for accuracy within 60 days prior to the effective date
of this subsection, shall be deemed tested for a period not to
exceed 180 days from the date of their testing. Thereafter, the
devices shall be tested in accordance with subsection (d).
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 90 days. as <--
follows:
(1) This section shall take effect immediately.
(2) The addition of 75 Pa.C.S. § 3368(d.1) shall take
effect in 120 days.
(3) The remainder of this act shall take effect in 180
days.
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