Pennsylvania Act 1992-109 — VEHICLE CODE (75 PA.C.S.) - AMEND IMPROVEMENT

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VEHICLE CODE (75 PA.C.S.) - AMEND IMPROVEMENT
                 Act of Nov. 24, 1992, P.L. 725, No. 109              Cl. 75
                             Session of 1992
                               No. 1992-109

     SB 1324

                                  AN ACT

     Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
        Statutes, regulating off-road lighting equipment on vehicles;
        providing for Pennsylvania Turnpike extensions and
        improvements; and making a repeal.

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

        Section 1.  Section 4303 of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
     Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
      § 4303.  General lighting requirements.
        * * *
        (f)  Off-road lighting.--Off-road lighting lamps may be
     mounted on the roof or roll bar of a vehicle and shall be
     covered with an opaque covering that prohibits any light from
     being emitted when the vehicle is being operated on a highway or
     trafficway. Any person who illuminates an off-road lighting lamp
     while the vehicle is being operated on a highway or a trafficway
     commits a summary offense and shall, upon conviction, be
     sentenced to pay a fine of $100.
        Section 2.  Title 75 is amended by adding a chapter to read:
                                CHAPTER 89
                          PENNSYLVANIA TURNPIKE
     Subchapter
        A.  Preliminary Provisions
        B.  Turnpike Extensions and Improvements
                               SUBCHAPTER A
                          PRELIMINARY PROVISIONS
     Sec.
     8901.  Definitions.
      § 8901.  Definitions.
        The following words and phrases when used in this chapter
     shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the
     context clearly indicates otherwise:
        "Commission."  The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission.
                               SUBCHAPTER B
                   TURNPIKE EXTENSIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS
     Sec.
     8911.  Improvement and extension authorizations.
     8912.  Subsequent extension authorizations.
     8913.  Additional subsequent extension authorizations.
     8914.  Further subsequent authorizations.
     8915.  Conversion to toll roads.
     8916.  Turnpike system.
      § 8911.  Improvement and extension authorizations.
        In order to facilitate vehicular traffic within and across
     this Commonwealth, the commission is hereby authorized and
     empowered to construct, operate and maintain turnpike extensions
     and turnpike improvements at such specific locations and
     according to such schedule as shall be deemed feasible and
     approved by the commission, together with connecting roads,
     storm water management systems, tunnels and bridges, subject to
     the waiver of the Federal toll prohibition provisions where
     applicable, as follows:
            (1)  Widen turnpike to six lanes between the Northeast
        Extension and the Delaware River Interchange.
            (2)  Construct turnpike interchange with Interstate Route
        95 in Bucks County.
            (3)  Construct turnpike interchange with Interstate Route
        476 in Montgomery County.
            (4)  Construct turnpike interchange with Keyser Avenue in
        Lackawanna County.
            (5)  Construct extensions to the existing turnpike from a
        point westerly of existing Interchange 2 extending northerly
        to a connection with the existing interchange between U.S.
        Route 422 and proposed State Route 60 in Lawrence County and
        extending southerly to a connection with existing State Route
        60 in Beaver County at or near State Route 51.
            (6)  Construct an extension to the turnpike from a point
        at or near Interchange 8 in Westmoreland County extending
        northerly to an interchange with State Route 66 northwest of
        Greensburg and continuing northerly to an interchange with
        U.S. Route 22 south of Delmont.
            (7)  Construct an additional Lehigh Tunnel on the
        Northeast Extension of the turnpike.
            (8)  Construct a private turnpike interchange directly
        connected to the New Cumberland Army Depot. The commission
        may commence construction of the private turnpike interchange
        notwithstanding the construction schedule established by this
        section.
            (9)  Construct an interchange on the Northeast Extension
        with State Route 903 in Carbon County. The commission may
        commence construction of this interchange notwithstanding the
        construction schedule established by this section.
      § 8912.  Subsequent extension authorizations.
        The commission is also hereby authorized and empowered to
     construct, operate and maintain further extensions and
     improvements of the turnpike at such specific locations and
     according to such schedules as shall be deemed feasible and
     which shall be approved by the commission, subject to the waiver
     of the Federal toll prohibition provisions where applicable, as
     follows:
            (1)  From an interchange with Interstate Route 70 between
        existing interchanges at Lover and Speers extending northerly
        to an interchange with Interstate Route 376 in Pittsburgh
        extending northwesterly toward the Midfield Terminal, Greater
        Pittsburgh Airport, Southern Beltway, Extension of the
        Findlay Connector along Interstate 79 and also extending
        southerly connecting with the existing interchange between
        U.S. Route 40 and the Mon Valley Expressway (L.R.1125).
            (2)  From a point at or near the existing interchange
        between U.S. Route 40 and the Mon Valley Expressway
        (L.R.1125) in Fayette County southeasterly along U.S. Route
        40 to Uniontown and continuing southerly along Pa. Route 857
        to the West Virginia border.
            (3)  From an interchange with the turnpike at or near
        Interchange 10 extending northerly generally following and
        coincident where feasible with existing U.S. Route 219 to an
        interchange with Interstate Route 80 at or near Interchange
        16.
            (4)  Construction of an interchange for access to the
        International Distribution Center at the Wilkes-Barre-
        Scranton International Airport in Luzerne County on the
        Northeast Extension of the Pennsylvania Turnpike System.
            (5)  From a point at or near Turnpike Interchange 10
        southerly generally along U.S. Route 219 to the Maryland
        border.
            (6)  From a point at or near Interstate Route 80
        Interchange 16 northerly generally along U.S. Route 219 to a
        connection with the existing U.S. Route 219 Expressway south
        of Bradford in McKean County.
      § 8913.  Additional subsequent extension authorizations.
        Upon substantial completion of the turnpike extensions and
     improvements set forth in sections 8911 (relating to improvement
     and extension authorizations) and 8912 (relating to subsequent
     extension authorizations), the commission is hereby authorized
     and empowered to construct, operate and maintain further
     extensions and improvements of the turnpike at such specific
     locations and according to such schedules as shall be deemed
     feasible and which shall be approved by the commission, subject
     to the waiver of the Federal toll prohibition provisions where
     applicable, as follows: construct from a point at or near
     Interstate Route 80 Interchange 23 at Milesburg southwesterly
     generally along U.S. Route 220 to a connection with the existing
     U.S. Route 220 Expressway south of Bald Eagle.
      § 8914.  Further subsequent authorizations.
        Upon completion of the turnpike extensions and improvements
     set forth in sections 8911 (relating to improvement and
     extension authorizations), 8912 (relating to subsequent
     extension authorizations) and 8913 (relating to additional
     subsequent extension authorizations), the commission is hereby
     authorized and empowered to construct, operate and maintain
     further extensions and improvements of the turnpike at such
     specific locations and according to such schedules as shall be
     deemed feasible and which shall be approved by the commission,
     subject to the waiver of the Federal toll prohibition provisions
     where applicable, as follows:
            (1)  From a point at or near the intersection of State
        Route 65 and Crows Run Road in Beaver County, in a
        southeasterly direction to a point at or near the Perry
        Highway Interchange of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.
            (2)  From a point at or near Exit 5 of the turnpike
        northerly to Brookville, Jefferson County, to a point at the
        intersection with Interstate Route 80.
            (3)  From a point at or near the Pennsylvania Turnpike
        System into various areas of Berks County in order to
        complete the construction of the inner loop system and outer
        loop system of highways surrounding the City of Reading and
        to complete the missing links on Routes 222 to 422 to 1035.
            (4)  From a point at or near the intersections of
        Interstate Route 70, Interstate Route 76 and T.R.119 in the
        Borough of Youngwood, Westmoreland County, in a northerly
        direction along T.R.119 and T.R.66 to the intersection of
        T.R.22 with a bypass around the City of Greensburg,
        Westmoreland County; thence north on T.R.66 to T.R.356;
        thence north on T.R.356 to the intersection with T.R.28.
            (5)  From a point at or near the intersection of T.R.66
        and T.R.22 in Salem Township, Westmoreland County; thence in
        a westerly direction paralleling T.R.22 to Exit 6 of
        Interstate 76.
      § 8915.  Conversion to toll roads.
        In order to facilitate vehicular traffic within and across
     this Commonwealth, and after completion of the turnpike
     extensions and improvements authorized in section 8911 (relating
     to improvement and extension authorizations), and subject to
     prior legislative approval by the General Assembly and the
     United States Congress, the commission is hereby authorized and
     empowered to convert to toll roads such portions of
     Pennsylvania's interstate highway system as may be required in
     order to facilitate the completion of the turnpike extensions
     and improvements authorized in sections 8912 (relating to
     subsequent extension authorizations), 8913 (relating to
     additional subsequent extension authorizations) and 8914
     (relating to further subsequent authorizations) and to operate
     and maintain such converted interstates as toll roads upon the
     approval by the Congress of the United States of America and the
     General Assembly of this Commonwealth of legislation expressly
     permitting the conversion of such interstates to toll roads.
     Such conversions shall take place at a time and manner set forth
     in the plan for the conversion prepared by the department. The
     provisions authorizing the commission to construct, operate and
     maintain the turnpike routes in sections 8911, 8912 and 8913
     shall be subject to:
            (1)  the prior passage by the Congress of the United
        States and the General Assembly of this Commonwealth of
        legislation permitting the conversion of certain interstates
        to toll roads; or
            (2)  the availability of such other funds as might become
        available in amounts that would be sufficient to fund to
        completion any of the individual turnpike extensions and
        improvements set forth in sections 8912, 8913 and 8914 so
        long as no turnpike extension or improvement authorized by
        section 8914 is undertaken until after all the turnpike
        extensions authorized by section 8913 are completed and no
        turnpike extension authorized by section 8913 is undertaken
        until after all the turnpike extensions and improvements
        authorized by section 8912 are completed. The commission is
        authorized to use Federal funds which may be available for
        toll roads only pursuant to the approval of the Secretary of
        Transportation and only pursuant to the authority granted in
        section 19 of the act of September 30, 1985 (P.L.240, No.61),
        known as the Turnpike Organization, Extension and Toll Road
        Conversion Act.
      § 8916.  Turnpike system.
        The turnpikes and the future toll road conversions authorized
     by this chapter are hereby or shall be made part of the
     Pennsylvania Turnpike System, as provided in the act of August
     14, 1951 (P.L.1232, No.282), referred to as the Pennsylvania
     Turnpike System Financing Act.
        Section 3.  The provisions of 74 Pa.C.S. Ch. 81 are repealed.
        Section 4.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

     APPROVED--The 24th day of November, A. D. 1992.

     ROBERT P. CASEY