HB 254 allowing red light cameras to be used outside Philadelphia has become law and is now Act 84.
The cameras require that PennDOT approve their installation and the signals must have warning signs that cameras have been installed. The cameras are prohibited from being used to take frontal shots and the system must be “incapable of automated or user-controlled remote intersection surveillance.”
Records will be destroyed 30 days after final disposition of cases.
The law also prohibits the display of license plates in which they are obscured from red light cameras and makes changes to the learner’s permit process regarding motorcycles and declaring that “submission of a certification for (a leaner’s permit) shall not subject the parent, guardian, person in loco parentis or spouse of a married minor to any liability based upon the certification.”
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