Pennsylvania Act 1911-171 — SUPPLEMENTING ACT, DETENTION OF MINORS

Act text

AN ACT

Supplementary to an act, entitled "An act authorizing the commitment of minors by magistrates, justices of the peace, or judges of certain charitable societies, and providing for the method of such commitment, and the cost of the visitation of such minors," approved the eighth day of June, Anno Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-three.

Section 1. Be it enacted, &c., That whenever, in the enforcement of the act to which this is a supplement, any magistrate or justice of the peace, after hearing, shall be of the opinion that the minor should not be committed to said society, and shall discharge such minor, the costs of the proceedings before such magistrate or justice shall be paid by the proper county.

Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.

Section 2. Whenever any judge of any court of quarter sessions shall make an order for the detention of any minor, as provided for in said act, or shall order the discharge of said minor, such judge may direct whether all the costs of such proceedings be paid by the proper county or by the complainant, or by both in such proportion as to such judge shall seem equitable.