PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 478 PRINTER'S NO. 1071
No. 446 Session of 1979
INTRODUCED BY MESSRS. MACKOWSKI, CUNNINGHAM, HASAY, LEVI E. G.
JOHNSON, WASS, GAMBLE, SCHWEDER AND F. TAYLOR, MARCH 5, 1979
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, APRIL 23, 1979
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 18, 1974 (P.L.359, No.120), entitled
2 "An act creating the Municipal Police Officers' Education and
3 Training Commission; providing for the commission's
4 membership, selection, compensation, and removal; providing
5 for the powers and duties of the commission; providing for
6 the appointment and duties of the chairman; providing for the
7 act's applicability to the civil service laws; requiring
8 training by certain political subdivisions and police
9 departments; providing penalties for violation thereof; and
10 making an appropriation," increasing the commission
11 membership and quorum requirements.
12 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
13 hereby enacts as follows:
14 Section 1. Subsection (a), clause (6) CLAUSES (6)AND (7) of <--
15 subsection (a) of section 4 and section 7, act of June 18, 1974
16 (P.L.359, No.120), referred to as the Municipal Police Education
17 and Training Law, are amended to read:
18 Section 4. Commission Members; Selection, Compensation and
19 Removal.--(a) The commission shall be composed of [seventeen]
20 eighteen members as follows:
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22 (6) [Three] FOUR elected officials of the various political <--
1 subdivisions of the Commonwealth, to be appointed by the
2 Governor; one to be a borough official, one a first class
3 township official, one a second class township official, and one
4 a city official.
5 (7) FOUR INCUMBENT CHIEFS OF POLICE FROM THE VARIOUS <--
6 POLITICAL SUBDIVISIONS OF THE COMMONWEALTH, TO BE APPOINTED BY
7 THE GOVERNOR; AT LEAST ONE TO BE A CHIEF OF A BOROUGH POLICE
8 DEPARTMENT, AT LEAST ONE TO BE A CHIEF OF A FIRST CLASS TOWNSHIP
9 POLICE DEPARTMENT, AT LEAST ONE TO BE A CHIEF OF A SECOND CLASS
10 TOWNSHIP POLICE DEPARTMENT, AT LEAST ONE TO BE A CHIEF OF A CITY
11 POLICE DEPARTMENT.
12 * * *
13 Section 7. Meetings; Quorum.--The chairman shall summon the
14 members of the commission to the first meeting within one
15 hundred twenty days of enactment. The commission shall meet at
16 least four times each year. Special meetings may be called by
17 the chairman of the commission, or upon written request of five
18 members. A quorum shall consist of [nine] ten members of the
19 commission.
20 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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