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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.
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THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PHIILADELPHIA HEREBY ORDAINS:
SECTION 1. A new Chapter 12-300 of The Philadelphia Code, entitled "Special Restrictions Upon Use of Vehicles Around Wheelchair Lift Equipped Vehicles," is hereby enacted, to read as follows:
CHAPTER 12-300. [Reserved.] SPECIAL RESTRICTIONS UPON USE OF VEHICLES AROUND WHEELCHAIR LIFT EQUIPPED VEHICLES.
§ 12-301. Meeting or overtaking wheelchair lift equipped vehicle while utilizing wheelchair lift.
Except as provided in § 12-304, the driver of a vehicle meeting or overtaking any wheelchair lift equipped vehicle stopped on a highway or trafficway shall 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, the wheel chair lift is deployed to load or unload a disabled passenger and the vehicle is marked in a clear and conspicuous manner sufficient to alert the driver of the approaching vehicle that the vehicle is wheelchair lift equipped. The driver of a vehicle shall not proceed until the flashing red hazard signal lights are no longer actuated. In no event shall a driver of a vehicle resume motion of the vehicle until the person using a wheelchair has reached a place of safety either at the curb or inside the vehic...
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