Pennsylvania Act 2013-43 — ADMINISTRATIVE CODE OF 1929 - PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE AND REPEALING AN ACT RELATING TO LIMITATION ON COMPLEMENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE

Act text

Session of 2013

No. 2013-43

SB 579

AN ACT

Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the Executive Department thereof and the administrative departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof, including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative officers, and of the several administrative departments, boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards, and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the number and compensation of the deputies and all other assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and commissions shall be determined," further providing for the Pennsylvania State Police; and repealing an act relating to limitation on complement of the Pennsylvania State Police.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 205(a), (b), (c) and (g) of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, amended or added July 25, 1963 (P.L.278, No.148) and July 11, 1991 (P.L.73, No.12), are amended to read:

Section 205. Pennsylvania State Police.--(a) The Pennsylvania State Police shall consist of a Commissioner, [a Deputy Commissioner, the State police force, and the State Highway Patrol] Deputy Commissioners and enlisted members , as now authorized by law, which are hereby consolidated into one force, to be known as the [State Police Force] Pennsylvania State Police , and such chiefs, statisticians, clerks, experts and other assistants, as the commissioner, with the approval of the Governor, shall deem necessary for the work of the force.

(b) The [State Police Force] Pennsylvania State Police shall consist of such number of officers and [men] enlisted members , and shall be organized in such manner, as the Commissioner of Pennsylvania State Police, with the approval of the Governor, shall from time to time determine: Provided, however, That the number of officers and [men] enlisted members shall not exceed in the aggregate at any time [three thousand nine hundred and forty] four thousand three hundred ten persons. State [policemen, both officers and men] police officers and enlisted members , assigned to duty with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission [or assigned to duty as resident State troopers], Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Commission, Gaming Enforcement and Liquor Control Enforcement shall not be counted in determining the total number of officers and [men] enlisted members in the [State Police Force] Pennsylvania State Police .

(c) The members of the [State Police Force] Pennsylvania State Police and the chiefs, statisticians, clerks, experts, and other assistants, engaged in the work of the Pennsylvania State Police shall be appointed by the commissioner, and shall receive such compensation as shall be fixed by the commissioner, with the approval of the Governor, which compensation shall, however, conform to the standards established by the Executive Board.

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[(g) The Pennsylvania State Police force shall include, but not be limited to, two underwater search teams, one of which shall be in eastern Pennsylvania and one of which shall be in western Pennsylvania.]

Section 2. Repeals are as follows:

(1) The General Assembly declares that the repeal under paragraph (2) is necessary to effectuate the amendment of section 205 of the act.

(2) The act of December 13, 2001 (P.L.903, No.100), entitled "An act repealing in part a limitation on the complement of the Pennsylvania State Police," is repealed.

Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.

APPROVED--The 2nd day of July, A.D. 2013.

TOM CORBETT