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Amending Title 12 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Traffic Code," by providing for prohibitions relating to all-terrain vehicles, and for penalties and enforcement, all under certain terms and conditions.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. Title 12 of The Philadelphia Code is amended to read as follows:
TITLE 12. TRAFFIC CODE
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CHAPTER 12-1100. MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS AND PENALTIES
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§ 12-1133. All-Terrain Vehicles.
(1) "All-Terrain Vehicle" shall have the same meaning as used in Section 7702 of the Vehicle Code, 75 Pa. C.S. § 7702.
(2) No person shall operate, park, stop, stand, place or maintain any all-terrain vehicle on any public sidewalk or any public property, including without limitation any park or recreation facility, except where expressly authorized by law; provided that the owner or a person with lawful permission of the owner may temporarily place an all-terrain vehicle on the sidewalk abutting his or her house or abutting any premises where the vehicle is lawfully stored, for purposes of lawfully transporting the vehicle to a location outside the City. Nothing in this Section prohibits the lawful transport of an all-terrain vehicle on a licensed trailer or other safe carrier, or the manual transport of a vehicle onto or off of such carrier, so long as the motor or engine of the all-terrain vehicle remains off at all times.
(3) The penalty for a violation of this Section, or for violation of any regulation of the Department of Parks and Recreation relating to operating, parking, stopping, standing, placing or maintaining any all-terrain vehicle, shall be forfeiture of the vehicle; provided that, if the value of the vehicle, in its current condition, is in excess of two thousand dollars ($2,000), or if the defendant does not own the vehicle and the owner did not know and could not reasonably have known that the vehicle would be used in viol...
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