Pennsylvania HB 1825: An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in rules of the road in general, further providing for speed timing devices.

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PRINTER'S NO. 2487 

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL 

No.

1825 

Session of 

2019 

INTRODUCED BY WHEELAND, EVERETT, SCHMITT, ZIMMERMAN, HENNESSEY 

AND HARKINS, SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, SEPTEMBER 17, 2019 

AN ACT

Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated 

Statutes, in rules of the road in general, further providing 

for speed timing devices.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 3368(d) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania 

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 3368. Speed timing devices.

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(d) Classification, approval and testing of mechanical, 

electrical and electronic devices.--The department may, by 

regulation, classify specific devices as being mechanical, 

electrical or electronic. All mechanical, electrical or 

electronic devices shall be of a type approved by the 

department, which shall appoint stations for calibrating and 

testing the devices and may prescribe regulations as to the 

manner in which calibrations and tests shall be made. The 

certification and calibration of electronic devices under 

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subsection (c)(3) shall also include the certification and 

calibration of all equipment, timing strips and other devices 

which are actually used with the particular electronic device 

being certified and calibrated. [Electronic devices commonly 

referred to as electronic speed meters or radar] All mechanical, 

electrical and electronic devices approved by the department 

shall have been tested for accuracy within a period of one year 

prior to the alleged violation. [Other devices shall have been 

tested for accuracy within a period of 60 days prior to the 

alleged violation.] A certificate from the station showing that 

the calibration and test were made within the required period 

and that the device was accurate shall be competent and prima 

facie evidence of those facts in every proceeding in which a 

violation of this title is charged. A certificate of accuracy 

may be completed, signed and submitted electronically by the 

certifying technician on a form provided by the department.

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

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