2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 42 - JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
Chapter 55 - Limitation of Time
5554 - Tolling of statute.

     § 5554.  Tolling of statute.
        Except as provided by section 5553(e) (relating to
     disposition of proceedings within two years), the period of
     limitation does not run during any time when:
            (1)  the accused is continuously absent from this
        Commonwealth or has no reasonably ascertainable place of
        abode or work within this Commonwealth;
            (2)  a prosecution against the accused for the same
        conduct is pending in this Commonwealth; or
            (3)  a child is under 18 years of age, where the crime
        involves injuries to the person of the child caused by the
        wrongful act, or neglect, or unlawful violence, or negligence
        of the child's parents or by a person responsible for the
        child's welfare, or any individual residing in the same home
        as the child, or a paramour of the child's parent.
     (Apr. 28, 1978, P.L.202, No.53, eff. 60 days; July 10, 1985,
     P.L.193, No.49, eff. 60 days)