Pennsylvania Act 2016-77 — VEHICLE CODE (75 PA.C.S.) - EMERGENCY TELEPHONES ALONG PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE

Act text

Session of 2016

No. 2016-77

HB 1335

AN ACT

Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in powers of department and local authorities, further providing for emergency telephones along Pennsylvania Turnpike.

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

Section 1. Section 6115 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 6115. Emergency telephones along Pennsylvania Turnpike.

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission [shall] may provide for the installation and maintenance of an emergency telephone along every two miles on both sides of the highway along a 50-mile stretch of the Pennsylvania Turnpike between Exits 8 and 11. [These emergency telephones shall be kept in operation for one year on a test basis, after which the commission shall report to the General Assembly its findings as to the use of the equipment and the cost of maintaining it. This report shall be the basis for a final decision as to whether emergency telephones should be installed and maintained along the entire Pennsylvania Turnpike and its extensions.]

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

APPROVED--The 8th day of July, A.D. 2016.

TOM WOLF