Official:Amending The Philadelphia Code to add requirements and prohibitions relating to motorized scooters, including amending Title 9, entitled "Regulation of Businesses, Trades and Professions," to define motorized scooters, to provide for the regulation of sales of motorized scooters, and to provide penalties for violations; and amending Title 12, entitled, "The Traffic Code," to prohibit the operation of motorized scooters on streets, public and private property, to provide for parental responsibility for minors illegally operating motorized scooters, and to provide for penalties for and administrative review of violations, all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember DiCicco
Introduced: September 23, 2004
: Committee on Licenses and Inspections
Status: Lapsed
This bill was introduced in the 2004–2007 Council term and when that term ran out. The public record shows no committee vote and no floor vote at any stage, so no member of Council ever went on record for or against it.
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This bill regulates motorized scooters in Philadelphia by defining them, requiring sales licenses, and prohibiting their operation on streets and public property. Penalties for violations will be established.
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