Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes
Title 75 - The Vehicle Code
PART V Administration and
Enforcement
CHAPTER 37 MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS
Subchapter A. Offenses in General
Subchapter B. Serious Traffic Offenses
SUBCHAPTER A. OFFENSES IN GENERAL
§ 3703. Driving
upon sidewalk.
§ 3705. Opening and
closing vehicle doors.
§ 3708. Unauthorized
driving over fire hose.
§ 3711. Unauthorized
persons and devices hanging on vehicles.
§ 3714. Careless driving.
§ 3715.
Restriction on alcoholic beverages (Repealed).
(a) General rule.--Except as
provided in subsection (b) or (c), no person shall drive any vehicle except a
human-powered vehicle upon a sidewalk or sidewalk area except upon a permanent
or duly authorized temporary driveway.
(b) Certain mobility-related devices
for persons with disabilities.--Any municipality may permit the operation of a
self-propelled wheel chair or an electrical mobility device on a sidewalk or
sidewalk area for the specific purpose of giving persons with mobility-related
disabilities the capability of transporting themselves. The municipality may
impose such restrictions as are necessary to protect the interests of
pedestrians and others using the sidewalk or sidewalk area.
(c) Electric personal assistive
mobility device (EPAMD).--Unless prohibited by ordinance, a municipality shall
permit the operation of an electric personal assistive mobility device on a
sidewalk or sidewalk area. A municipality may impose such restrictions as
may be necessary to protect the interests of pedestrians and other using the
sidewalk or sidewalk area. (July 4, 2002, P.L. 692, No.
105, eff. 60 days)
No person shall open any door on a
motor vehicle unless and until it is reasonably safe to do so and can be done
without interfering with the movement of other traffic, nor shall any person
leave a door open on a side of a vehicle available to moving traffic for a
period of time longer than necessary to load or unload passengers.
No vehicle shall be driven over any
unprotected hose of a fire department when laid down on any highway, private
road or driveway, for use at any fire or alarm of fire, without the consent of a
fire department officer, a police officer or other appropriately attired person
authorized to direct, control or regulate traffic at the scene.
(a) General rule.--No person shall
hang onto or ride on the outside or the rear end of any vehicle and no person on
a pedalcycle, motorcycle, roller skates, sled or any similar device, shall hold
fast to or attach the device to any moving vehicle or streetcar, and no operator
of a vehicle or streetcar shall knowingly permit any person to hang onto or ride
on the outside or rear end of the vehicle or streetcar operated, or allow any
person on a pedalcycle, motorcycle, roller skates, sled or any similar device to
hold fast or attach the device to the v\ehicle or streetcar operated on any
highway.
(b) Exceptions.--This section is not
applicable to firemen or garbage collectors or operators of fire trucks or
garbage trucks or employees of public utility companies acting pursuant to and
during the course of their duties or to other persons exempted by department
regulations from the application of this section. This section does not prohibit
attaching a trailer or semitrailer to a pedalcycle.
Any person who drives a vehicle in
careless disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of careless
driving, a summary offense.
2000 Repeal Note. Section 3715 was repealed June 22,
2000, P.L. 469, No. 64, effective September 1, 2000.
§ 3731. Driving
under influence of alcohol or controlled substance.
§ 3732. Homicide by vehicle.
§ 3736. Reckless driving.
(a) Offense defined.--A
person shall not drive, operate or be in actual physical control of the movement
of a vehicle in any of the following circumstances:
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Any
person who recklessly or with gross negligence causes the death of another
person while engaged in the violation of any law of this Commonwealth or
municipal ordinance applying to the operation or use of a vehicle or to the
regulation of traffic except section 3731 (relating to driving under influence
of alcohol or controlled substance) is guilty of homicide by vehicle, a felony
of the third degree, when the violation is the cause of death. (Dec. 20,
2000, P.L. 772, No. 108, eff. 60 days)
(a) General rule.--Any person
who drives any vehicle in willful or wanton disregard for the safety of persons
or property is guilty of reckless driving.
(b) Penalty.--Any person who
violates this section commits a summary offense and shall, uponconviction, be
sentences to pay a fine of $200.
Operation Of Vehicles - Miscellaneous Provisions / last revised December 31, 1998
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