HB 297 — An Act amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in registration of vehicles, further providing for vehicles exempt from registration.

PRINTER'S NO.   241

                       THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                           HOUSE BILL
                           No. 297
                                                  Session of
                                                    2025

     INTRODUCED BY STAMBAUGH, HAMM, STENDER, KUZMA, TWARDZIK AND
        ZIMMERMAN, JANUARY 23, 2025

     REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 23, 2025


                                       AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 75 (Vehicles) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 2      Statutes, in registration of vehicles, further providing for
 3      vehicles exempt from registration.
 4      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 5   hereby enacts as follows:
 6      Section 1.      Section 1302(23) of Title 75 of the Pennsylvania
 7   Consolidated Statutes is amended and the section is amended by
 8   adding a paragraph to read:
 9   § 1302.    Vehicles exempt from registration.
10      The following types of vehicles are exempt from registration:
11             * * *
12             (23)    Any all-terrain vehicle exempt from registration
13      under Chapter 77 (relating to snowmobiles and all-terrain
14      vehicles) and operated as an emergency vehicle by a police or
15      fire department or emergency medical services agency when the
16      vehicle does not travel on public highways in excess of two
17      miles and is primarily for off-highway use and only operated
18      incidentally upon [the highway] a highway in a county of the
 1    first class, a county of the second class, a county of the
 2    second class A or a county of the third class. An all-terrain
 3    vehicle so operated shall comply with section 4571 (visual
 4    and audible signals on emergency vehicles).
 5        (24)     Any all-terrain vehicle exempt from registration
 6    under Chapter 77 and operated as an emergency vehicle by a
 7    police or fire department or emergency medical services
 8    agency when the vehicle does not travel on public highways in
 9    excess of 15 miles and is primarily for off-highway use and
10    only operated incidentally upon a highway in a county of the
11    fourth class, a county of the fifth class, a county of the
12    sixth class, a county of the seventh class or a county of the
13    eighth class. An all-terrain vehicle so operated shall comply
14    with section 4571.
15    Section 2.    This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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