Pennsylvania Act 2004-166 — JUDICIAL CODE (42 PA.C.S.) - SUMMARY OFFENSES INVOLVING VEHICLES

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JUDICIAL CODE (42 PA.C.S.) - SUMMARY OFFENSES INVOLVING VEHICLES
                 Act of Nov. 29, 2004, P.L. 1325, No. 166             Cl. 42
                             Session of 2004
                               No. 2004-166

     HB 2572

                                  AN ACT

     Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
        Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for
        summary offenses involving vehicles.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  Section 5553(c) and (e) of Title 42 of the
     Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
      § 5553.  Summary offenses involving vehicles.
        * * *
        (c)  Exception.--
            (1)  Where proceedings are timely commenced against a
        person reasonably believed to have committed the offense
        charged and it subsequently appears that a person other than
        the person charged is the offender, proceedings may be
        commenced against the other person within 30 days after the
        identity of the person is discovered and not thereafter.
            (2)  Proceedings for summary offenses under Title 75 may
        be commenced within 365 days after the commission of the
        offense, the discovery of the commission of the offense or
        the discovery of the identity of the offender, whichever is
        later, and not thereafter if the offense involved an accident
        resulting in the bodily injury or death of any person.
        * * *
        (e)  Disposition of proceedings within [two] three years.--No
     proceedings shall be held or action taken pursuant to a summary
     offense under Title 75 subsequent to [two] three years after the
     commission of the offense.
        Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

     APPROVED--The 29th day of November, A. D. 2004.

     EDWARD G. RENDELL