PRINTER'S NO. 2270
No. 1887 Session of 1991
INTRODUCED BY ROEBUCK AND HAYES, JULY 10, 1991
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JULY 10, 1991
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," making editorial changes
21 relating to the Governor's residence.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Section 2402(a), (c) and (o) of the act of April
25 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of
26 1929, added or amended March 28, 1961 (P.L.66, No.25) and June
27 17, 1971 (P.L.163, No.11), are amended to read:
1 Section 2402. Grounds, Buildings and Monuments in General.--
2 The Department of General Services shall have the power, and its
3 duty shall be:
4 (a) Subject to the powers by this act vested in the Board of
5 Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings, to control and
6 supervise the State Capitol Building, and the public grounds and
7 buildings connected with the State Capitol, including the State
8 Arsenal, any building or buildings that may have been devised or
9 may hereafter be devised to the Commonwealth within the City of
10 Harrisburg, the Northwest Office Building now occupied by the
11 Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board, the Pittsburgh State Office
12 Building, the Philadelphia State Office Building, the Executive
13 [Mansion] Residence and the [Mansion] Residence of the
14 Lieutenant Governor, and to make, or supervise the making, of
15 all repairs, alterations, and improvements, in and about such
16 grounds and buildings, including the furnishing and refurnishing
17 of the same, and also to have general supervision over repairs,
18 alterations, and improvements to all other buildings, lands, and
19 property of the State, except as in this act otherwise provided:
20 * * *
21 (c) To employ such help as may be reasonably necessary for
22 the cleaning, care, and preservation of the Capitol grounds and
23 buildings, Pittsburgh State Office Building and grounds,
24 Philadelphia State Office Building and grounds, and the
25 furnishings therein, for operating the mechanical plants in the
26 Capitol buildings, Pittsburgh State Office Building,
27 Philadelphia State Office Building and the Executive [Mansion]
28 Residence, and for service at the Executive [Mansion] Residence;
29 * * *
30 (o) To maintain, for the use of the Lieutenant Governor, the
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1 [Mansion] Residence located on the Edward Martin Military
2 Reservation.
3 Section 2. Section 2409(e) and (f) of the act, amended
4 December 19, 1980 (P.L.1333, No.244), are amended to read:
5 Section 2409. Method of Awarding Contracts for Stationery,
6 Paper, Fuel, Repairs, Furnishings, and Supplies.--* * *
7 (e) The department, after conferring with the heads of the
8 various departments, boards, commissions, and the chief clerks
9 of the Senate and House, shall have the power to make such
10 changes in the schedules as may be deemed proper, and may
11 standardize any or all articles therein. When the schedules have
12 been finally prepared, they shall be prepared in such form as
13 the department shall deem advisable, and shall be the schedules
14 of stationery, paper, supplies, fuel, equipment, furniture,
15 furnishings, repairs, alterations, improvements and other
16 matters and things needed for the public grounds and buildings,
17 the Senate and House of Representatives, the several
18 departments, boards, and commissions of the State Government,
19 and the Executive [Mansion] Residence.
20 (f) The department shall, not less than six weeks prior to
21 the termination of schedule contracts now existing or that may
22 be made in the future, advertise the opening of bids for the
23 annual, semiannual, or quarterly schedules, by advertising
24 inserted, for at least three days, the first and last
25 publication to be at least ten days apart, in not less than six
26 or more than twelve newspapers of extensive general circulation
27 in different parts of the Commonwealth, not more than three of
28 which shall be published in any one county, invite sealed
29 proposals for contracts to furnish all stationery, supplies,
30 paper, and fuel, used by the Senate and House of
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1 Representatives, the several departments, boards, and
2 commissions of the State Government, and the Executive [Mansion]
3 Residence, and for repairing, altering, improving, furnishing or
4 refurnishing, and all other matters or things required for the
5 public grounds and buildings, legislative halls and rooms
6 connected therewith, the rooms of the several departments,
7 boards, and commissions, and the buildings connected with the
8 State Capitol and the Executive [Mansion] Residence. The
9 advertisement shall contain a reference to the schedules so
10 prepared by the department, and, as briefly as practicable,
11 invite bids for the furnishing of articles named in the
12 schedules, and give notice of the time and place where such bids
13 will be received, and when they will be opened.
14 * * *
15 Section 3. Section 2416(h) of the act, amended September 27,
16 1978 (P.L.775, No.149), is amended to read:
17 Section 2416. Capitol Police, Commonwealth Property Police
18 and Campus Police.--The Capitol Police, Commonwealth Property
19 Police and the Security or Campus Police of all State colleges
20 and universities, State aided or related colleges and
21 universities and community colleges shall have the power, and
22 their duty shall be:
23 * * *
24 (h) To arrest any person who shall damage, mutilate or
25 destroy the trees, plants, shrubbery, turf, grass-plots,
26 benches, buildings or structures, or commit any other offense
27 within State buildings on State grounds in Dauphin County, the
28 Pittsburgh State Office Building and grounds, and the
29 Philadelphia State Office Building and grounds, the Executive
30 [Mansion] Residence, and the grounds and buildings of all State
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1 colleges and universities, State aided or related colleges and
2 universities and community colleges, and carry the offender
3 before the proper alderman, justice of the peace or magistrate
4 and prefer charges against him under the laws of the
5 Commonwealth.
6 * * *
7 Section 4. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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