Bill Text: PA SB225 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended


Bill Title: In budget and finance, further providing for Commonwealth portion of fines.

Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-03-16 - Re-referred to APPROPRIATIONS [SB225 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SB225-Amended.html

  

 

PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 592

PRINTER'S NO.  1637

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

SENATE BILL

 

No.

225

Session of

2009

  

  

INTRODUCED BY TARTAGLIONE, RAFFERTY, STOUT, FOLMER, ERICKSON, GREENLEAF, WASHINGTON, FERLO, EARLL, O'PAKE, COSTA, STACK, LOGAN, WOZNIAK, EICHELBERGER AND WAUGH, MARCH 5, 2009

  

  

SENATOR RAFFERTY, TRANSPORTATION, AS AMENDED, JANUARY 27, 2010   

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the

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Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in budget and finance,

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further providing for Commonwealth portion of fines.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 3571(b)(2) of Title 42 of the

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Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended and the subsection

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is amended by adding a paragraph to read:

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§ 3571.  Commonwealth portion of fines, etc.

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(b)  Vehicle offenses.--

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(2)  (i)  Except as provided in [paragraph (4)] 

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paragraphs (4) and (5), when prosecution under any other

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provision of Title 75 (relating to vehicles) is the

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result of State Police action, all fines, forfeited

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recognizances and other forfeitures imposed, lost or

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forfeited shall be payable to the Commonwealth, for

 


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credit to the Motor License Fund. One-half of the revenue

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shall be paid to municipalities as designated in

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subparagraph (ii) in the same ratio provided in section 4

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of the act of June 1, 1956 (1955 P.L.1944, No.655),

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[relating to partial allocation of liquid fuels and fuel

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use tax proceeds.] referred to as the Liquid Fuels Tax

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Municipal Allocation Law.

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(ii)  Only municipalities that provide local police

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(ii)  (A)  Only municipalities that provide at least

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40 hours per week of local police services through a

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municipal police department, participation in a

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regional police department or contracts with other

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municipal or regional police for police services may

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receive revenue under subparagraph (i).

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(B)  Revenue that is not paid to municipalities

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under clause (A) shall be transferred to the

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Pennsylvania State Police for cadet classes.

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(5)  When prosecution under any other provision of Title

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75 is the result of State Police action on an interstate

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highway, as defined in 75 Pa.C.S. § 102 (relating to

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definitions), all fines, forfeited recognizances and other

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forfeitures imposed, lost or forfeited shall be payable to

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the Commonwealth, for credit to the Motor License Fund.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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