Pennsylvania Act 1937-15 — NATIONAL GUARD, ALLOWING CITIES TO MAINTAIN UNITS

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NATIONAL GUARD, ALLOWING CITIES TO MAINTAIN UNITS
                  Act of Mar. 10, 1937, P.L. 39, No. 15               Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing cities of the first class, second class, and second
        class A to make appropriations for the support, maintenance,
        discipline, and training of units of the National Guard;
        providing for the paying over expenditure and accounting for
        of such appropriations; and repealing existing laws.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That any city of the first
     class, second class, and second class A shall have power to
     appropriate, annually, a sum not exceeding seven hundred and
     fifty dollars ($750) for the support, maintenance, discipline,
     and training of any dismounted company or similar unit of the
     National Guard, and a sum, not exceeding one thousand five
     hundred dollars ($1,500), for the support and maintenance of any
     mounted or motorized troop or similar unit of the National
     Guard. Where such units are organized as a battalion, regiment
     or similar organization, the total amount appropriated may be
     paid to the commanding officer of the battalion, regiment or
     similar organization.
        The moneys so appropriated shall be paid by warrant in the
     usual manner to the commanding officer of such company,
     battalion, regiment, unit or similar organization, only when it
     shall be certified to the controller of the city, by the
     Adjutant General of the Commonwealth, that the said company,
     battalion, regiment, unit or organization has satisfactorily
     passed the annual inspection provided by law.
        Section 2.  The moneys so appropriated shall be used and
     expended solely and exclusively for the support, maintenance,
     discipline, and training of said company, battalion, regiment,
     unit or similar organization. The commanding officer shall
     account, by proper vouchers to the city, for the expenditure of
     the moneys so appropriated, and no appropriation shall be made
     for any subsequent year until the expenditure of the previous
     year shall have been duly and satisfactorily accounted for.
        The accounts of such expenditure shall be subject to the
     inspection of the Department of Military Affairs, and shall be
     audited by the controller of the city.
        (2 amended May 10, 1951, P.L.264, No.44)
        Section 3.  The following acts are hereby repealed, as
     respectively indicated:
        The act approved the twenty-fourth day of May, one thousand
     eight hundred and eighty-seven (Pamphlet Laws, one hundred
     eighty-two), entitled "An act to authorize the councils of the
     cities of the first class of the Commonwealth to appropriate
     annually a sum, not exceeding five hundred dollars, for the
     support and maintenance of each company of the National Guard
     using and occupying an armory, building, room or quarters within
     said cities, in addition to the annual appropriation by the
     Legislature," and its amendments, absolutely.
        The act approved the eleventh day of April, one thousand
     eight hundred and ninety-nine (Pamphlet Laws, forty), entitled
     "An act extending to cities of the second class the provisions
     of the act of May twenty-four, one thousand eight hundred and
     eighty-seven, Pamphlet Laws one hundred and eighty-two, which
     authorizes cities of the first class to appropriate annually the
     sum not exceeding five hundred dollars for the support and
     maintenance of each company of the National Guard," absolutely.
        Section 28.1.  Duties of Common Pleas Courts on Days of
     Primaries and Elections.--The court of common pleas of each
     county or a judge or judges thereof of any county of the
     Commonwealth maintaining a reinstatement system of registration
     shall be in continuous session at the courthouse of said county
     on the day of each primary and election during the period the
     polls are open. During such period said court shall hear and
     determine (1) the petition of any qualified elector who has
     heretofore been duly registered as an elector of said county but
     who, due to circumstances beyond his control, has failed to file
     a removal notice or reinstatement card in order to insure the
     inclusion of his registration card in the district register of
     the election district of his residence, (2) the petition of any
     qualified registered elector who has suffered a physical
     disability which renders him unable to see or mark the ballot or
     operate the voting machine or to enter the voting machine
     compartment or voting booth without assistance and, due to
     circumstances beyond his control, was unable to make application
     personally at the office of the registration commission within
     the time prescribed by law in order to have such fact entered on
     his registration card, (3) the petition of any qualified elector
     who is a duly discharged veteran and who, by reason of his
     service in the armed forces, was unable to register within the
     time fixed by law, and (4) the petition of any commissioner,
     chief clerk, registrar or clerk, setting forth that the right to
     vote of the particular elector has been denied by reason of an
     error by the registration commission.
        (28.1 added Sept. 2, 1961, P.L.1205, No.530)