Official:Enacting a new Chapter 12-300 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Special Restrictions Upon Use of Vehicles Around Wheelchair Lift Equipped Vehicles," to require a driver of a vehicle meeting or overtaking any wheelchair lift equipped vehicle stopped on a highway or trafficway to stop at least ten feet before reaching the wheelchair lift equipped vehicle when the red hazard signal lights on the wheelchair lift equipped vehicle are flashing and the wheel chair lift is deployed to load or unload a disabled passenger, and providing for the reporting of and setting penalties for violations; all under certain terms and conditions.
Sponsor: Councilmember Campbell
Introduced: September 20, 2007
Signed: November 1, 2007
: Committee on the Disabled and the Handicapped
Status: Signed into Law, step 4 of 4
This law requires drivers to stop at least 10 feet away from wheelchair lift equipped vehicles when their red hazard lights are flashing and a passenger is being loaded or unloaded.
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