2010 Pennsylvania Code
Title 75 - VEHICLES
Chapter 37 - Miscellaneous Provisions
3701.1 - Leaving an unattended child in a motor vehicle.

     § 3701.1.  Leaving an unattended child in a motor vehicle.
        (a)  General rule.--A person driving or in charge of a motor
     vehicle may not permit a child under six years of age to remain
     unattended in the vehicle when the motor vehicle is out of the
     person's sight and under circumstances which endanger the
     health, safety or welfare of the child.
        (a.1)  Applicability.--This section shall apply to the
     highways and trafficways of this Commonwealth and, for the
     purposes of this section only, the term "trafficways" shall
     include, but not be limited to, parking lots.
        (b)  Penalty.--A person who violates this section commits a
     summary offense. It is a separate offense for each child left
     unattended.
     (July 19, 1991, P.L.88, No.20, eff. 90 days; July 2, 1993,
     P.L.408, No.58, eff. 60 days; July 10, 2006, P.L.1086, No.113,
     eff. 60 days)

        2006 Amendment.  Act 113 amended subsec. (b).
        1991 Amendment.  Act 20 added section 3701.1.