Pennsylvania Act 1931-56 — SCHOOL BOARD TRANSACTIONS

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SCHOOL BOARD TRANSACTIONS
                   Act of May 1, 1931, P.L. 76, No. 56                Cl. 24
                                  AN ACT

     Ratifying, confirming and validating transactions by boards of
        school directors involving defects and errors of law, but
        where there was no fraud, corruption, dishonesty, or
        conspiracy to violate the law; and exonerating school
        directors from surcharge in such cases.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That whenever heretofore any
     board of school directors, or any officers thereof, shall have
     issued, or authorized the issue, or executed any school orders
     for payments from the school funds of the school district, which
     orders were charged against the proper classes of expenditures
     in the financial account book of the district and lists thereof,
     showing the classes against which they were charged, were
     forwarded to the treasurer of the school district with the
     orders after they had been drawn and executed, but where said
     orders did not state on their faces, respectively, the
     particular classes of expenditures of the annual school budget
     upon which said orders were drawn, as required by law, and
     where, heretofore, any such board of school directors has
     authorized expenditures to be made and to be charged against a
     budget allocation in excess of the amount of the fund allocated
     thereto in the annual budget and without transferring to such
     budget allocation, as required by law, sufficient funds to cover
     such expenditures, and where school orders for such expenditures
     were drawn and executed by the officers and payments thereon
     made, and where, heretofore, any such board of school directors,
     or any officers thereof, shall have incurred a temporary loan,
     not in excess of the limitation prescribed by law, without
     formal action or authorization or without entering into the
     minutes of the board an authorization for such temporary loan,
     and where the officers of such board of school directors have
     executed a note for such temporary loan and received the amount
     or proceeds thereof and paid the same into the treasury of the
     school district and, by subsequent action duly entered in the
     minutes, the board of school directors ratified such temporary
     loan by a vote of not less than two-thirds of the members of
     such board of school directors; or where any board of school
     directors, or the officers thereof, have heretofore issued and
     executed orders for payments for supplies, services, salaries,
     expenses, compensation for attendance at teachers' institutes,
     and payments to the State Employes' Retirement Board, which
     supplies and services were actually received by the school
     district and which salaries, expenses, compensation and payments
     were actually due, but such orders were executed and payments
     thereon made before action was taken by the board of school
     directors duly authorizing or ratifying the same as required by
     law; or where any board of school directors of any school
     district has heretofore taken any action, performed any duty, or
     exercised any power, pursuant to the affirmative vote of a
     majority or greater proportion of all the members of such board,
     and the secretary of the board or the board did not actually
     record on the minutes of the board the vote showing how each
     member voted as required by law,--then in each and every case
     the transactions of the board of school directors, or the
     officers thereof, heretofore enumerated shall be and the same
     are hereby ratified, confirmed and validated, notwithstanding
     any defects or errors of law in the transactions of such board
     of school directors and the officers thereof, if such
     transactions by the board of school directors and the officers
     thereof did not evidence any fraud, corruption,
     misappropriation, dishonesty, manipulation of funds redounding
     to the benefit of the members of the board of school directors,
     or any one else, or any conspiracy to violate the provisions of
     the school laws of the Commonwealth, and the school district has
     not suffered any pecuniary loss as the result of such
     transactions, but has received full value and a fair return for
     all moneys expended.  No board of school directors, or any
     members or officers thereof, shall be subject to surcharge for
     the transactions and expenditures validated by this act.