NEW PA Law- "No Cell Phone While Driving",

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[size=3][b]NEW PA Law-
[/b][/size][size=3][b]"No Cell Phone While Driving", Effective November 10,2007[/b]
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House Bill No 1827 amends Title 75 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statues and will be [b]effective November 10, 2007.[/b]
 
"[b]No driver shall operate any moving vehicle on a highway of this Commonwealth[/b], which shall include Federal, State and municipal highways, [b]while using a hand-held mobile telephone."[/b]

The term [b]"hand-held mobile telephone" is defined[/b] by the bill as: 
"A mobile telephone other than a hands-free mobile telephone with which[b] a user engages in a call using at least one hand."[/b]

It also [b]defines "hands-free"[/b] as follows:

"A mobile telephone that has an internal feature or function, or that is equipped with an attachment or addition, whether or not permanently part of such mobile telephone, by which [b]a user engages in a call without the use of either hand[/b], whether or not the use of either hand is necessary to activate, deactivate or initiate a function of such telephone."

The new law does not apply to Law Enforcement Officers and/or Operators of Emergency Vehicles when on duty and acting in official capacities.

Defensible actions for the use of a hand-held mobile telephone while driving are:

1)   The driver had reason to fear for the his or her own safety

2)   Reporting a traffic accident

3)   Making a "911" emergency call

A person who is found to be in violation of this section commits a summary offense and upon conviction, will be sentence to pay a $50.00 fine.


http://www.legis.state.pa.us/CFDOCS/Legis/PN/Public/btCheck.cfm?txtType=PDF&sessYr=2007&sessInd=0&billBody=H&billTyp=B&billNbr=1827&pn=2428