Pennsylvania Act 2004-58 — VEHICLE CODE (75 PA.C.S.) - STANDING AND PARKING PROHIBITIONS

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VEHICLE CODE (75 PA.C.S.) - STANDING AND PARKING PROHIBITIONS
                  Act of Jul. 2, 2004, P.L. 497, No. 58               Cl. 75
                             Session of 2004
                               No. 2004-58

     HB 550

                                  AN ACT

     Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
        Statutes, further providing for standing and parking
        prohibitions.

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

        Section 1.  Section 3353(a)(2) and (e) of Title 75 of the
     Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
      § 3353.  Prohibitions in specified places.
        (a)  General rule.--Except when necessary to avoid conflict
     with other traffic or to protect the safety of any person or
     vehicle or in compliance with law or the directions of a police
     officer or official traffic-control device, no person shall:
            * * *
            (2)  Stand or park a vehicle:
                (i)  In front of a public or private driveway.
                (ii)  Within 15 feet of a fire hydrant.
                (iii)  Within 20 feet of a crosswalk at an
            intersection.
                (iv)  Within 30 feet upon the approach to any
            flashing signal, stop sign, yield sign or traffic-control
            signal located at the site of a roadway.
                (v)  Within 20 feet of the driveway entrance to any
            fire station or, when properly sign posted, on the side
            of a street opposite the entrance to any fire station
            within 75 feet of the entrance.
                (vi)  Where the vehicle would prevent the free
            movement of a streetcar.
                (vii)  On a limited access highway unless authorized
            by official traffic-control devices.
                (viii)  At any place where official signs prohibit
            standing.
                (ix)  Within 30 feet upon the approach to a sign
            warning of the possible presence of a person with a
            disability in the vicinity of a roadway adjacent to the
            person's residence or the possible presence of a person
            with a disability frequently traversing the roadway at
            that location. This subparagraph shall not apply unless
            an enabling local ordinance has been passed. The
            ordinance may apply generally throughout the municipality
            or be site specific. The ordinance may specify the height
            of vehicles prohibited from parking in these locations.
            The enforcement of this subparagraph requires that a sign
            indicating the violation and amount of fine be posted at
            each applicable location. For purposes of this section,
            the term "disability" shall mean a hearing impairment or
            total or partial blindness.
            * * *
        (e)  Penalty.--Any person violating any provision of this
     section is guilty of a summary offense and shall, upon
     conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not more than [$15]
     $50.
        Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

     APPROVED--The 2nd day of July, A. D. 2004.

     EDWARD G. RENDELL