PRINTER'S NO. 3281
No. 2422 Session of 1976
INTRODUCED BY IRVIS, SHELTON, RIEGER, HEPFORD, FINEMAN, BENNETT,
A. P. KELLY, CAPUTO, WOJDAK, PERRY, JOHNSON, RUGGIERO,
BRANDT, ROSS, OLIVER, GREEN, DiCARLO, A. K. HUTCHINSON AND
RHODES, MAY 25, 1976
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, MAY 25, 1976
AN ACT
1 Fixing annual license and other fees for activities regulated by
2 the Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs in the
3 Department of State.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Short Title.--This act shall be known and may be
7 cited as the "Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs
8 Fee Act."
9 Section 2. Legislative Intent, Saving from Repeal.--
10 Notwithstanding that this act is intended as a complete
11 statement of the amounts of all fees for activities regulated by
12 the Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs of the
13 Department of State, no existing fee shall be impliedly repealed
14 by reason of the sole fact that it is inadvertently completely
15 omitted from this act.
16 Section 3. Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs
17 Fees.--The annual license or other fees for activities regulated
1 by the Bureau of Professional and Occupational Affairs in the
2 Department of State shall be as hereinafter specifically set
3 forth.
4 Activity Fee
5 (1) Cosmetology
6 (i) Shop owners, managers, teachers, original $ 5.00
7 (ii) Operators and manicurists, original 2.00
8 (iii) Beauty schools, original 50.00
9 (iv) Student 1.00
10 (v) Shop owner, manager, teacher, biennial renewal 25.00
11 (vi) Operators, manicurists, biennial renewal 20.00
12 (vii) Beauty schools, biennial renewal 65.00
13 (viii) Transfer of shop license No fee
14 (2) Real estate licenses
15 (i) Examination, broker 10.00
16 (ii) Examination, salesman 5.00
17 (iii) Broker, biennial 25.00
18 (iv) Salesman, biennial 20.00
19 (v) Office, biennial 35.00
20 (vi) Duplicates 2.50
21 (vii) Certifications, brokers 2.50
22 (viii) Copies of papers, per folio .50
23 (3) Dentistry
24 (i) Dentist, biennial registration 25.00
25 (ii) Dental hygienist, biennial
26 registration 20.00
27 (iii) Examination, dentist See registration
28 (iv) Examination, dental hygienist See registration
29 (4) Motor vehicle salesmen
30 (i) Initial 15.00
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1 (ii) Renewal, biennial 25.00
2 (iii) Employer charge 5.00
3 (5) Landscape architecture, examination and
4 initial, biennial 45.00
5 (6) Practical nursing
6 (i) Examination 5.00
7 (ii) Renewal, biennial 10.00
8 (7) Architecture
9 (i) Examination 25.00
10 (ii) Renewal, biennial 25.00
11 (8) Nursing home administration
12 (i) Examination 10.00
13 (ii) Renewal, biennial 35.00
14 (9) Certified public accounting
15 (i) Examination Fixed by Commissioner of
16 Professional and Occupational
17 Affairs
18 (ii) Renewal, biennial 30.00
19 (10) Chiropractic
20 (i) Standard examination 25.00
21 (ii) Limited examination 10.00
22 (iii) Renewal, biennial 25.00
23 (11) Pharmacy
24 (i) Pharmacy intern 10.00
25 (ii) Examination fee 15.00
26 (iii) Original license 20.00
27 (iv) Foreign pharmacist
28 (A) Application, investigation 50.00
29 (B) Registration, certificate 25.00
30 (v) Assistant pharmacist, biennial 20.00
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1 (vi) Pharmacist, biennial 30.00
2 (vii) Pharmacist, late registration, biennial Extra 25.00
3 (12) Professional nursing
4 (i) Examination 10.00
5 (ii) Renewal, biennial 20.00
6 (13) Osteopathy
7 (i) Examination, original license 50.00
8 (ii) Out-of-state certification 50.00
9 (iii) Biennial renewal 50.00
10 (14) Veterinary
11 (i) Temporary permit, examination 50.00
12 $25.00 for examination
13 (ii) Biennial renewal 25.00
14 (15) Optometry
15 (i) Standard examination 25.00
16 (ii) Branch office, original 2.00
17 (iii) Renewal, biennial 25.00
18 (iv) Branch office, renewal 20.00
19 (v) Late biennial Extra 5.00
20 (vi) Out-of-state certification 25.00
21 (16) Medical
22 (i) Physicians, biennial renewal 50.00
23 (ii) Examination Fixed by board
24 (iii) Limited license Fixed by board
25 (iv) Out-of-state certification Fixed by board
26 (v) Temporary license Fixed by board
27 (17) Podiatry
28 (i) Examination 25.00
29 (ii) Renewal, biennial 25.00
30 (18) Psychology
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1 (i) Examination 50.00
2 (ii) Renewal, biennial 25.00
3 (iii) Out-of-state certification Fixed by board
4 (19) Physical therapy
5 (i) Original 15.00
6 (ii) Out-of-State certification 75.00
7 (iii) Temporary 25.00
8 (iv) Biennial renewal 20.00
9 (v) Renewal of expired license 10.00
10 (20) Midwifery
11 (i) Original 10.00
12 (ii) Biennial renewal 20.00
13 (21) Funeral directing
14 (i) Students Fixed by board
15 (ii) Change of school, preceptor Additional fee
16 fixed by board
17 (iii) Original license Fixed by board
18 (iv) Out-of-state If any, fixed by board
19 (v) Funeral Directors biennial renewal 35.00
20 (vi) Funeral Corporation, biennial renewal 35.00
21 (22) Barbers
22 (i) Examination, apprentice, student 5.00
23 (ii) Apprentice, student permit 2.00
24 (iii) Examination, barbers 5.00
25 (iv) Teachers 5.00
26 (v) Teachers, biennial renewal 25.00
27 (vi) Out-of-state 5.00
28 (vii) Barbers, biennial, renewal 20.00
29 (viii) Schools
30 (A) Registration 100.00
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1 (B) Biennial renewal 50.00
2 (23) Professional engineering
3 (i) Examination Fixed by board
4 (ii) Engineers-in-training Fixed by board
5 (iii) Engineers, original licensure Fixed by board
6 (iv) Engineers, biennial renewal 25.00
7 (v) Surveyors, original licensure Fixed by board
8 (vi) Surveyors, biennial renewal 25.00
9 (24) Auctioneers
10 (i) Examination, original license 25.00
11 (ii) Application, examination, original
12 license: 45.00
13 10.00
14 30.00
15 (iii) Renewal, auctioneer 60.00
16 (iv) Renewal application, auctioneer 30.00
17 (v) Duplicates 2.50
18 (vi) Special license, specific auction 10.00
19 (25) Sewage treatment plant and waterworks operators
20 (i) Certificate, original 10.00
21 (ii) Certificate, annual renewal 3.00
22 Section 4. Limited Additional Funds for Bureau Operation.--
23 In order to improve the operations and efficiency of the Bureau
24 of Professional and Occupational Affairs, the bureau, during the
25 first year of operation under the provisions of this act only,
26 shall have the power to deduct from the license fee of each
27 individual paid under the provisions of this act, a sum of money
28 sufficient to enable the bureau to receive a total sum of
29 $350,000 which money shall be used to reorganize, modernize and
30 automate the operations of the bureau.
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1 Section 5. Repeals.--The following acts or parts of acts,
2 their amendments and supplements and all regulations promulgated
3 thereunder, are repealed in so far as inconsistent with the fees
4 fixed by the provisions of this act, and to such further extent,
5 if any, as specified:
6 Department of State
7 (1) Section 16, act of May 3, 1933 (P.L.242, No.86), known
8 as the "Beauty Culture Law."
9 (2) Sections 4(b) and 8, act of May 1, 1929 (P.L.1216,
10 No.427), known as the "Real Estate Brokers License Act of one
11 thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine."
12 (3) Section 4, act of May 1, 1933 (P.L.216, No.76), known as
13 "The Dental Law."
14 (4) Sections 6 and 9, act of September 9, 1965 (P.L.499,
15 No.254), known as the "Motor Vehicle Manufacturer's, Dealer's
16 and Salesmen's License Act."
17 (5) Section 5, act of January 24, 1966 (1965 P.L.1527,
18 No.535), known as the "Landscape Architects' Registration Law."
19 (6) Sections 5 and 13, act of March 2, 1956 (P.L.1211,
20 No.376), known as the "Practical Nurse Law."
21 (7) Sections 7 and 10, act of July 12, 1919 (P.L.933,
22 No.369), known as the "Architects Registration Law."
23 (8) Section 9, act of June 22, 1970 (P.L.378, No.122), known
24 as the "Nursing Home Administrators License Act."
25 (9) Sections 6 and 8.2, act of May 26, 1947 (P.L.318,
26 No.140), known as "The C.P.A. Law."
27 (10) Section 9, act of August 10, 1951 (P.L.1182, No.264),
28 known as the "Chiropractic Registration Act of 1951."
29 (11) Section 3, act of September 27, 1961 (P.L.1700,
30 No.699), known as the "Pharmacy Act."
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1 (12) Sections 6 and 11, act of May 22, 1951 (P.L.317,
2 No.69), known as "The Professional Nursing Law."
3 (13) Sections 8 and 10, act of March 19, 1909 (P.L.46,
4 No.29), referred to as the Osteopathic Practice Law.
5 (14) Sections 10 and 13, act of December 27, 1974 (P.L.995,
6 No.326), known as the "Veterinary Medicine Practice Act."
7 (15) Sections 7 and 10, act of March 30, 1917 (P.L.21,
8 No.10), referred to as the Optometry Practice Law.
9 (16) Sections 7, 10 and 12, act of July 20, 1974 (P.L.551,
10 No.190), known as the "Medical Practice Act of 1974."
11 (17) Section 3, act of April 4, 1929 (P.L.160, No.155),
12 relating to practice of midwifery.
13 (18) Sections 6 and 15, act of March 2, 1956 (P.L.1206,
14 No.375), known as the "Podiatry Act of 1956."
15 (19) Section 4, act of May 23, 1945 (P.L.913, No.367), known
16 as the "Professional Engineers Registration Law."
17 (20) Section 12, act of November 18, 1968 (P.L.1052,
18 No.322), known as the "Sewage Treatment Plant and Waterworks
19 Operators' Certification Act."
20 (21) Section 13, act of September 29, 1961 (P.L.1745,
21 No.708), known as "The Auctioneers License Act."
22 (22) Sections 4 and 6, act of January 14, 1952 (P.L.1898,
23 No.522), known as the "Funeral Director Law."
24 (23) Sections 3, 5 and 11, act of June 19, 1931 (P.L.589,
25 No.202), referred to as the Barbers' License Law.
26 (24) Sections 6 and 7, act of October 10, 1975 (No.110),
27 known as the "Physical Therapy Practice Act."
28 Section 6. Effective Date.--This act shall take effect at
29 the beginning of the first annual license year for each
30 particular fee subsequent to the date of final enactment of this
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1 act; and as to all fees not annual license fees, it shall take
2 effect January 1, 1977.
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