Pennsylvania Act 1917-415 — EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS VACANCIES IN OFFICES

Act text

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS VACANCIES IN OFFICES
                 Act of Jul. 25, 1917, P.L. 1201, No. 415             Cl. 71
                                  AN ACT

     To provide that when a vacancy occurs in the head or chief of
        any department of the State Government, and the duties of the
        head or chief devolve upon and are discharged by the deputy,
        chief clerk, or other person next in authority, for one month
        or more, the salary of such deputy, chief clerk, or other
        person next in authority, so serving, shall be equalized with
        the salary of the head or chief of the department while he so
        serves; and making this act applicable to all deputies, chief
        clerks, or other persons next in authority, who have filled
        vacancies as herein prescribed in the year one thousand nine
        hundred and seventeen; providing the method of payment, and
        making an appropriation therefor.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That when a vacancy occurs,
     by death or otherwise, in the head or chief of any of the
     departments of the State Government, and the duties thereof
     devolve upon and are discharged by the deputy, chief clerk, or
     person next in authority, for a period of one month or more,
     such deputy, chief clerk, or other person next in authority,
     shall be paid an amount, over and above his regular salary, that
     shall equalize it with the salary provided by law to be paid to
     the head or chief of such department for and during the time he
     has performed the duties of head or chief of such department.
        Section 2.  That the provisions of the first section of this
     act shall apply to, and in behalf of, all deputies, chief
     clerks, or other persons next in authority, who are performing
     or who have performed the duties of the heads or chiefs of any
     department of the State government, within the year one thousand
     nine hundred and seventeen, for a period of one month or more,
     the heads or chief places in such departments being vacant from
     any cause whatsoever.
        Section 3.  The payments herein provided for shall be made by
     the State Treasurer upon warrants drawn by the Auditor General;
     and there is hereby appropriated the sum of three thousand one
     hundred dollars ($3,100), or as much thereof as may be
     necessary, for payment of the amount accrued to June first, one
     thousand nine hundred and seventeen; thereafter said payments to
     be made out of any unused moneys hereafter appropriated for the
     salary of the head or chief of any department whose office may
     become vacant.