Pennsylvania Act 1913-453 — REGISTRARS OF ELECTORS, APPOINTMENT

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REGISTRARS OF ELECTORS, APPOINTMENT
                 Act of Jul. 24, 1913, P.L. 994, No. 453              Cl. 53
                                  AN ACT

     To provide for the appointment of registrars of electors to be
        deputy poll-tax collectors in cities of the first class of
        this Commonwealth; a method of collecting such taxes;
        penalties for violation of its provisions; and to repeal acts
        or parts of acts inconsistent therewith.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the receiver of taxes in
     cities of the first class of this Commonwealth shall designate
     one of the registrars appointed by the registration
     commissioners for each election district in said cities, to be
     deputy poll-tax collector for such district; who shall receive
     poll-taxes from persons who have been duly assessed in said
     district, and make proper receipt therefor, on any of the
     registration days provided by law.
        Section 2.  The receiver of taxes shall prepare blank poll-
     tax receipts, bound together in books containing fifty each,
     impressed with the proper seal of the city, which said books
     shall be issued to the said deputy collectors of poll-tax from
     time to time as required; and the stub of each receipt, together
     with all unused receipts, shall, on or before the second day
     next succeeding each registration day, be returned to the
     receiver of taxes, and kept by him as a part of the records of
     his department for a period of two years.
        Section 3.  The said deputy poll-tax collectors shall give
     bond in form and amount approved by the receiver of taxes, and
     shall, for their services, receive ten per centum of the amount
     collected by them, which shall be in addition to the
     compensation allowed them by law for their services as
     registrars. They shall make a full return of all moneys (less
     their commission of ten per centum) and blank receipts, received
     by them, on or before the second day next succeeding each
     registration day.
        Section 4.  Any deputy poll-tax collector who shall, upon
     request, refuse to accept the payment of a tax and to furnish a
     receipt therefor, from an elector, upon whom said tax has been
     properly assessed, and who offers the same according to law, or
     who shall accept payment of a tax from, and issue a receipt to,
     any person other than the said elector or his duly authorized
     agent or attorney, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon
     conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not
     exceeding five hundred dollars.