75 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 61 - Powers Of Department And Local Authorities

• Chapter Notes

Subchapter A.  General Provisions

• Section 6101 - Applicability And Uniformity Of Title
  (a) Requirement.--The provisions of this title shall be applicable and uniform throughout this Commonwealth and in all political subdivisions in this Commonwealth, and no...
• Section 6102 - Powers And Duties Of Department And Local Authorities
  (a) Department.--The department is charged with the duty of administering the provisions of this title and of all laws the administration of which is...
• Section 6103 - Promulgation Of Rules And Regulations By Department
  (a) General rule.--In addition to the specific powers granted to the department by this title to promulgate rules and regulations, the department shall have...
• Section 6103.1 - Exemption From Additional Requirements For Highway Occupancy Permits For Agricultural Purposes
  The department shall waive all additional requirements for a highway occupancy permit in a fifth through eighth class county when all of the following...
• Section 6104 - Administrative Duties Of Department
  (a) Forms.--The department shall prescribe and provide suitable forms of applications, certificates of title, registration cards, drivers' licenses and all other forms requisite or...
• Section 6105 - Department To Prescribe Traffic And Engineering Investigations
  The department may establish by regulation the manner in which traffic and engineering investigations shall be carried out. The department may specify particular actions...
• Section 6105.1 - Designation Of Highway Safety Corridors
  The department, based upon a traffic and engineering investigation, shall have the power to designate a segment of a highway as a highway safety...
• Section 6106 - Designation Of Emergency Vehicles By Pennsylvania State Police
  (a) General rule.--The Pennsylvania State Police may designate any vehicle or group of vehicles as emergency vehicles upon a finding that the designation is...
• Section 6107 - Designation Of Authorized Vehicles By Department
  The department may designate any vehicle or group of vehicles as authorized vehicles upon a finding that the vehicle is used in the performance...
• Section 6108 - Power Of Governor During Emergency
  (a) General rule.--In the event of a declared National, State or local emergency when the Governor of this Commonwealth has made a specific determination...
• Section 6109 - Specific Powers Of Department And Local Authorities
  (a) Enumeration of police powers.--The provisions of this title shall not be deemed to prevent the department on State-designated highways and local authorities on...
• Section 6110 - Regulation Of Traffic On Pennsylvania Turnpike
  (a) General rule.--The provisions of this title apply upon any turnpike or highway under the supervision and control of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission unless...
• Section 6110.1 - Fare Evasion
  (a) Penalty.--A person that violates a regulation of the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission prohibiting fare evasion or attempted fare evasion commits a summary offense and...
• Section 6111 - Regulation Of Traffic On Bridges Under Authority Of Interstate Commissions
  (a) General rule.--The provisions of this title apply to any bridge under the supervision and control of the Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission,...
• Section 6112 - Removal Of Traffic Hazards By Property Owner
  (a) General rule.--It is the duty of the owner of real property to remove from the property any tree, plant, shrub or other similar...
• Section 6113 - Control Of Public Travel On Private Property By Owner
  (a) General rule.--Nothing in this title shall be construed to prevent the owner of real property used by the public for purposes of vehicular...
• Section 6114 - Limitation On Sale, Publication And Disclosure Of Records
  (a) Offenses defined.--It is unlawful for: (1) Any police officer, or any officer, employee or agent of any Commonwealth agency or local authority which...
• Section 6115 - Emergency Telephones Along Pennsylvania Turnpike
  The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission shall provide for the installation and maintenance of an emergency telephone along every two miles on both sides of the...
• Section 6116 - Payment By Credit Or Debit Card
  Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, the department is authorized to accept payment of a fee by a credit or debit card, even...
• Section 6117 - Authority Of Qualified Employees Of Department And Department Of Revenue
  Employees of the department, the Department of Revenue and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission who have completed a training program approved by the respective...
• Section 6118 - Municipal Police Officer Education And Training
  Beginning July 1, 2014, and each year thereafter, the sum of $5,000,000 is appropriated annually to the Pennsylvania State Police from the Motor License...

Subchapter B.  Traffic-control Devices

• Section 6121 - Uniform System Of Traffic-control Devices
  The department shall publish a manual for a uniform system of traffic-control devices consistent with the provisions of this title for use upon highways...
• Section 6122 - Authority To Erect Traffic-control Devices
  (a) General rule.--The department on State-designated highways and local authorities on any highway within their boundaries may erect official traffic-control devices, which shall be...
• Section 6123 - Erection Of Traffic-control Devices While Working
  (a) General rule.--Any person performing any work on or near the roadway which may create hazards shall erect traffic-control devices in accordance with the...
• Section 6123.1 - Mandatory Traffic-control Devices In Highway Work Zones
  Each Interstate highway work zone, including a work zone on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, with a project cost exceeding $300,000 shall be equipped with speed-monitoring...
• Section 6124 - Erection Of Traffic-control Devices At Intersections
  The department on State-designated highways, including intersections with local highways, and local authorities on intersections of highways under their jurisdiction may erect and maintain...
• Section 6125 - Display Of Unauthorized Signs, Signals Or Markings
  (a) General rule.--No person shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any highway any unauthorized sign, signal, marking or device which...
• Section 6126 - Interference With Devices, Signs Or Signals
  (a) General rule.--No person shall, without lawful authority, attempt to or in fact, alter, twist, obstruct, deface, injure, knock down, remove or interfere with...
• Section 6127 - Dealing In Nonconforming Traffic-control Devices
  (a) General rule.--It is unlawful for any person to manufacture, sell, offer for sale or to lease for use on the highway any traffic-control...
• Section 6128 - Dealing In Official Traffic-control Devices Or Bridge Parts
  (a) General rule.--A person commits a summary offense if he knowingly purchases, sells or offers for sale an official traffic-control device or an identifiable...
• Section 6129 - Maintenance Of Pedestrian Crosswalks In School Zones
  The department may paint and maintain pedestrian crosswalks located within school zones on State-designated highways. (June 25, 2001, P.L.701, No.68, eff. 60 days) 2001...

Subchapter C.  Reciprocity

• Section 6141 - Declaration Of Policy
  It is the policy of this Commonwealth to promote and encourage the fullest possible use of its highway system by authorizing the making and...
• Section 6142 - Reciprocity Agreements, Arrangements And Declarations Authorized
  The secretary may execute or make agreements, arrangements and declarations to carry out the provisions of this subchapter and may amend and terminate the...
• Section 6143 - Benefits, Privileges And Exemptions From Taxes And Fees
  The secretary may enter into an agreement or arrangement with the duly authorized representatives of other jurisdictions, granting to drivers or vehicles or owners...
• Section 6144 - Vehicle Registration And Licensing
  An agreement or arrangement entered into, or a declaration issued, under this subchapter may contain provisions authorizing the registration or licensing in another jurisdiction...
• Section 6145 - Proportional Registration Of Fleet Vehicles
  If any jurisdiction permits or requires the licensing of fleets of vehicles in interstate or combined interstate and intrastate commerce and payment of registration...
• Section 6146 - Enforcement Agreements
  The secretary may enter into agreements relating to enforcement of this title, including, but not limited to: (1) the Driver License Compact and any...
• Section 6146.1 - Multijurisdictional Permit Agreement
  (a) Multijurisdictional permit agreements authorized.--The secretary and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission may execute and enter into agreements on behalf of the Commonwealth with other...
• Section 6147 - Declaration Of Reciprocity In Absence Of Agreement
  In the absence of an agreement or arrangement with another jurisdiction, the secretary may examine the laws and requirements of such jurisdiction and declare...
• Section 6148 - Applicability To Leased Vehicles
  An agreement or arrangement entered into, or a declaration issued, under the authority of this subchapter may contain provisions under which a leased vehicle...
• Section 6149 - Automatic Reciprocity
  If no agreement, arrangement or declaration is in effect with respect to another jurisdiction as authorized by this subchapter, any vehicle properly registered or...
• Section 6150 - Proportional Registration Not Exclusive
  Nothing contained in this subchapter relating to proportional registration of fleet vehicles shall be construed as requiring any vehicle to be proportionally registered if...
• Section 6151 - Suspension Of Reciprocity Benefits
  Agreements, arrangements or declarations made under authority of this subchapter may include provisions authorizing the department to suspend or cancel the exemptions, benefits or...
• Section 6152 - Form, Publication And Distribution Of Documents
  All agreements, arrangements and declarations, and amendments thereto, shall be in writing and shall be published in compliance with Part II of Title 45...
• Section 6153 - Existing Reciprocity Agreements Unaffected
  All reciprocity and proportional registration agreements, arrangements and declarations relating to vehicles, in force and effect at the time this subchapter becomes effective, shall...
• Section 6154 - Nonreciprocity Of Operational Limitations
  (a) General rule.--If any other state with which the department has entered into a reciprocity agreement, including the International Registration Plan, imposes an operational...

Last modified: October 8, 2016