75 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 37 - Miscellaneous Provisions

• Chapter Notes

Subchapter A.  Offenses in General

• Section 3701 - Unattended Motor Vehicle
  (a) General rule.--No person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle shall permit the vehicle to stand unattended without placing the gear shift...
• Section 3701.1 - Leaving An Unattended Child In A Motor Vehicle
  (a) General rule.--A person driving or in charge of a motor vehicle may not permit a child under six years of age to remain...
• Section 3702 - Limitations On Backing
  (a) General rule.--No driver shall back a vehicle unless the movement can be made with safety and without interfering with other traffic and then...
• Section 3703 - Driving Upon Sidewalk
  (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...
• Section 3704 - Obstruction To Driving View Or Mechanism
  No person shall drive a vehicle when it is so loaded, or when there are in the front seat such a number of persons,...
• Section 3705 - Opening And Closing Vehicle Doors
  No person shall open any door on a motor vehicle unless and until it is reasonably safe to do so and can be done...
• Section 3706 - Riding In House Trailers, Mobile Homes Or Boats On Trailers
  (a) General rule.--No person or persons shall occupy a house trailer, mobile home or boat on a trailer while it is being moved upon...
• Section 3707 - Driving Or Stopping Close To Fire Apparatus
  The driver of any vehicle other than one on official business shall not follow any fire apparatus traveling in response to a fire alarm...
• Section 3708 - Unauthorized Driving Over Fire Hose
  No vehicle shall be driven over any unprotected hose of a fire department when laid down on any highway, private road or driveway, for...
• Section 3709 - Depositing Waste And Other Material On Highway, Property Or Waters
  (a) General rule.--No person shall throw or deposit, upon any highway, or upon any other public or private property without the consent of the...
• Section 3710 - Stopping At Intersection Or Crossing To Prevent Obstruction
  No driver shall enter an intersection or a crosswalk or drive onto any railroad grade crossing unless there is sufficient space on the other...
• Section 3711 - Unauthorized Persons And Devices Hanging On Vehicles
  (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...
• Section 3712 - Abandonment Of Vehicles
  (a) Abandonment on highway.--No person shall abandon a vehicle upon any highway. (b) Abandonment on public or private property.--No person shall abandon a vehicle...
• Section 3712.1 - Restitution Of Property Owners
  Any person who abandons a vehicle on private property may be ordered to pay restitution for any damages sustained by the owner or other...
• Section 3712.2 - Stripping Abandoned Vehicles
  (a) Offense defined.-- (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), a person commits the offense of stripping an abandoned vehicle if the person intentionally...
• Section 3713 - Railroad Trains Not To Block Crossings
  No person or government agency shall operate any train in such a manner as to prevent vehicular use of any roadway for a period...
• Section 3714 - Careless Driving
  (a) General rule.--Any person who drives a vehicle in careless disregard for the safety of persons or property is guilty of careless driving, a...
• Section 3715 - Restriction On Alcoholic Beverages (Repealed)
  § 3715. Restriction on alcoholic beverages (Repealed). 2000 Repeal. Section 3715 was repealed June 22, 2000, P.L.469, No.64, effective September 1, 2000.
• Section 3716 - Accidents Involving Overturned Vehicles
  (a) Speeding, careless driving, etc.--If a commercial motor vehicle overturns in an accident resulting from a violation of section 3361 (relating to driving vehicle...
• Section 3717 - Trespass By Motor Vehicle
  (a) General rule.--It is unlawful for a person to knowingly operate a motor vehicle on private real property other than a private road or...
• Section 3718 - Minor Prohibited From Operating With Any Alcohol In System
  (a) Offense defined.--Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, a minor shall not drive, operate or be in physical control of a motor vehicle...
• Section 3719 - Passengers In Open Trucks
  (a) General rule.--An open-bed pickup truck or open flatbed truck may not be driven at a speed of more than 35 miles per hour...
• Section 3720 - Snow And Ice Dislodged Or Falling From Moving Vehicle
  When snow or ice is dislodged or falls from a moving vehicle and strikes another vehicle or pedestrian causing death or serious bodily injury,...

Subchapter B.  Serious Traffic Offenses

• Section 3731 - Driving Under Influence Of Alcohol Or Controlled Substance (Repealed)
  § 3731. Driving under influence of alcohol or controlled substance (Repealed). 2003 Repeal. Section 3731 was repealed September 30, 2003, P.L.120, No.24, effective February...
• Section 3731.1 - Operators Of Commercial Vehicles (Repealed)
  § 3731.1. Operators of commercial vehicles (Repealed). 1990 Repeal. Section 3731.1 was repealed May 30, 1990, P.L.173, No.42, effective November 1, 1990.
• Section 3732 - Homicide By Vehicle
  (a) Offense.--Any person who recklessly or with gross negligence causes the death of another person while engaged in the violation of any law of...
• Section 3732.1 - Aggravated Assault By Vehicle
  (a) Offense.--Any person who recklessly or with gross negligence causes serious bodily injury to another person while engaged in the violation of any law...
• Section 3733 - Fleeing Or Attempting To Elude Police Officer
  (a) Offense defined.--Any driver of a motor vehicle who willfully fails or refuses to bring his vehicle to a stop, or who otherwise flees...
• Section 3734 - Driving Without Lights To Avoid Identification Or Arrest
  Any person who drives without lights or turns off any or all the lights on a motor vehicle for the purpose of avoiding identification...
• Section 3735 - Homicide By Vehicle While Driving Under Influence
  (a) Offense defined.--Any person who unintentionally causes the death of another person as the result of a violation of section 3802 (relating to driving...
• Section 3735.1 - Aggravated Assault By Vehicle While Driving Under The Influence
  (a) Offense defined.--Any person who negligently causes serious bodily injury to another person as the result of a violation of section 3802 (relating to...
• Section 3736 - Reckless Driving
  (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...

Subchapter C.  Accidents and Accident Reports

• Section 3741 - Application Of Subchapter
  The provisions of this subchapter shall apply upon highways and trafficways throughout this Commonwealth.
• Section 3742 - Accidents Involving Death Or Personal Injury
  (a) General rule.--The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury or death of any person shall immediately stop the vehicle...
• Section 3742.1 - Accidents Involving Death Or Personal Injury While Not Properly Licensed
  (a) Offense defined.--A person whose operating privilege was disqualified, canceled, recalled, revoked or suspended and not restored or who does not hold a valid...
• Section 3743 - Accidents Involving Damage To Attended Vehicle Or Property
  (a) General rule.--The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting only in damage to a vehicle or other property which is driven...
• Section 3743.1 - Spilled Cargo
  (a) General rule.--Immediately following an accident, a police officer may remove or direct removal of spilled cargo from any roadway to the nearest point...
• Section 3744 - Duty To Give Information And Render Aid
  (a) General rule.--The driver of any vehicle involved in an accident resulting in injury to or death of any person or damage to any...
• Section 3745 - Accidents Involving Damage To Unattended Vehicle Or Property
  (a) General rule.--The driver of any vehicle which collides with or is involved in an accident with any vehicle or other property which is...
• Section 3745.1 - Accident Scene Clearance
  (a) General rule.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law to the contrary, the driver of any vehicle in an accident that does not result in...
• Section 3746 - Immediate Notice Of Accident To Police Department
  (a) General rule.--The driver of a vehicle involved in an accident shall immediately by the quickest means of communication give notice to the nearest...
• Section 3747 - Written Report Of Accident By Driver Or Owner
  (a) General rule.--If a police officer does not investigate an accident required to be investigated by section 3746 (relating to immediate notice of accident...
• Section 3748 - False Reports
  Any person who gives information in oral or written reports required by this subchapter knowing or having reason to believe that the information is...
• Section 3749 - Reports By Coroners And Medical Examiners
  (a) General rule.--Every coroner or medical examiner in this Commonwealth shall report in writing to the department within five days of certification the death...
• Section 3750 - Reports By Garages
  The person in charge of any garage or repair shop to which is brought a vehicle which shows evidence of having been struck by...
• Section 3751 - Reports By Police
  (a) General rule.--Every police department that investigates a vehicle accident for which a report must be made as required in this subchapter and prepares...
• Section 3752 - Accident Report Forms
  (a) Form and content.--The department shall prepare and upon request supply to all law enforcement agencies and other appropriate agencies or individuals, forms for...
• Section 3753 - Department To Compile, Tabulate And Analyze Accident Reports
  (a) Central accident records agency.--The department shall establish a central accident records agency which shall be the repository for all reportable traffic accidents as...
• Section 3754 - Accident Prevention Investigations
  (a) General rule.--The department, in association with the Pennsylvania State Police, may conduct in-depth accident investigations and safety studies of the human, vehicle and...
• Section 3755 - Reports By Emergency Room Personnel
  (a) General rule.--If, as a result of a motor vehicle accident, the person who drove, operated or was in actual physical control of the...
• Section 3756 - Accidents Involving Certain Vehicles
  (a) Testing requirement.--A police officer investigating an accident involving a motor carrier vehicle, bus, school bus or a vehicle transporting hazardous materials required to...
• Section 3757 - Compensation For Incident Removal Costs
  (a) General rule.--Notwithstanding any other law or regulation, any entity incurring the cost of removing a vehicle or cargo at an accident scene if...

Last modified: October 8, 2016