PRINTER'S NO. 3282
No. 2524 Session of 1992
INTRODUCED BY VEON, CALTAGIRONE, PESCI, COY, KOSINSKI, HARPER,
PERZEL, RICHARDSON, TANGRETTI, SERAFINI, JOSEPHS, KRUSZEWSKI,
McGEEHAN, JOHNSON, BUNT, BELARDI AND McCALL, MARCH 18, 1992
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, MARCH 18, 1992
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further defining "enforcement officer"
3 to include parole agent supervisors.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. The definition of "enforcement officer" in
7 section 5102 of Title 71 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes is amended to read:
9 § 5102. Definitions.
10 The following words and phrases as used in this part, unless
11 a different meaning is plainly required by the context, shall
12 have the following meanings:
13 * * *
14 "Enforcement officer."
15 (1) Any enforcement officer or investigator of the
16 Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board who is a peace officer
17 vested with police power and authority throughout the
18 Commonwealth and any administrative or supervisory employee
1 of the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board vested with police
2 power who is charged with the administration or enforcement
3 of the liquor laws of the Commonwealth.
4 (2) Special agents, narcotics agents, asset forfeiture
5 agents, medicaid fraud agents and senior investigators
6 hazardous waste prosecutions unit, classified as such and
7 employed by the Office of Attorney General who have within
8 the scope of their employment as law enforcement officers the
9 power to enforce the law and make arrests under the authority
10 of the act of October 15, 1980 (P.L.950, No.164), known as
11 the Commonwealth Attorneys Act.
12 (3) Parole agents, classified as such by the Executive
13 Board and employed by the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and
14 Parole. The term includes parole agent supervisors.
15 * * *
16 Section 2. This act shall be retroactive to August 5, 1991.
17 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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