INTERGOVERNMENT COOPERATION LAW - REPEALED — 1972 Pa. Act 180 (historical enacted text)

Historical Act text

PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 2005 PRINTER'S NO. 2147
INTRODUCED BY MESSRS. LUTTY, STONE, DeMEDIO, FOOR AND KAHLE,
OCTOBER 28, 1971
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED DECEMBER 1, 1971
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 24, 1937 (P.L.2017), entitled "An act
2 creating in each county (except of the first class), as a
3 separate corporation, and in each city of the first and
4 second class as a part of the city government, an institution
5 district for the care and maintenance of certain indigent
6 persons and children; prescribing the powers and duties of
7 county commissioners, county treasurers, city departments of
8 public welfare, the State Department of Welfare and the State
9 Department of Public Assistance in respect thereto;
10 abolishing certain poor districts and terminating the terms
11 of directors, overseers, guardians and managers of the poor
12 and poor district auditors, and providing for the temporary
13 employment of certain of them; providing for the transfer,
14 vesting, sale and disposition of the property of poor
15 districts and the payment of their obligations; imposing
16 certain existing obligations on institution districts and on
17 the Commonwealth; regulating the affairs of poor districts
18 until abolished; revising, amending, changing and
19 consolidating the law relating to the care of the poor; and
20 repealing existing laws," providing for the creation or
21 dissolution of a county institution district. in a county of <--
22 the third class.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. Section 301, act of June 24, 1937 (P.L.2017),
26 known as the "County Institution District Law," is amended to
27 read:
1 Section 301. County Institution Districts.--Each county, as
2 herein defined, [is hereby created] may create OR DISSOLVE a <--
3 district to be known as ".........................County
4 Institution District," which district shall be a body corporate
5 with the capacity to sue and be sued, to take, hold, lease and
6 convey real and personal property, and to make contracts. The
7 property, real and personal, and the obligations of each
8 existing county poor district are hereby transferred to, vested
9 in, and imposed on, the institution district of that county. Any
10 property so transferred or vested shall, if suitable, be used
11 for the purposes of administering this act, or to be disposed of
12 as provided in this act. Any county of the third class that has <--
13 created a county institution district may by resolution of the
14 board of county commissioners dissolve such a A COUNTY <--
15 INSTITUTION district.
16 WHENEVER A COUNTY INSTITUTION DISTRICT IS DISSOLVED, ITS <--
17 PROPERTY, OBLIGATIONS, POWERS AND DUTIES SHALL BE TRANSFERRED TO
18 THE COUNTY.
19 SECTION 2. THE COUNTY INSTITUTION DISTRICTS IN EXISTENCE ON
20 THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THIS ACT SHALL CONTINUE UNTIL DISSOLVED BY
21 THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
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