SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 1484, 2242, 2757 PRINTER'S NO. 2791
No. 1334 Session of 1981
INTRODUCED BY PENDLETON, POTT, COWELL, ITKIN, CESSAR, PISTELLA,
McVERRY, GRABOWSKI, OLASZ, GAMBLE, HORGOS, DUFFY, MARMION,
TRELLO, HEISER AND RASCO, APRIL 27, 1981
AS AMENDED ON SECOND CONSIDERATION, IN SENATE, JANUARY 26, 1982
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act relating to counties of the second class
3 and second class A; amending, revising, consolidating and
4 changing the laws relating thereto," further providing for
5 the membership of boards of managers of houses for detention
6 of juveniles.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 2538, act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723,
10 No.230), known as the "Second Class County Code," is amended to
11 read:
12 Section 2538. Management of Houses for Detention of
13 Juveniles; Appointment of Board; Ex-officio Members.--The
14 management of houses for the detention and reception of
15 juveniles under the age of sixteen years awaiting trial, hearing
16 or judicial investigation, heretofore or hereafter established
17 under existing law to which this is a supplement or its
18 amendment or under the provision of any other law of the
19 Commonwealth, shall be in a board of managers consisting of [six
1 citizens of the county, at least two of whom shall be women,
2 appointed by the judges of the court of common pleas of the
3 county] three county commissioners, the county controller, and
4 six private citizens, three to be appointed by the president
5 judge of the court of common pleas and the other three to be
6 appointed by the chairman of the board of county commissioners.
7 The commissioners and the controller may appoint persons to act
8 as their designees for the purpose of attending meetings of the
9 board and the designees shall have the right to vote at such
10 meetings. The private citizen members of the board shall not be
11 officers or employes of the county. The members of the board or
12 boards of managers existing in the county shall remain as
13 members of the board or boards of managers created herein until
14 the expiration of the terms to which they were respectively
15 appointed. Annually thereafter, they or their successors shall
16 be appointed for a term of three years. Vacancies occurring in
17 the membership of the board shall be filled FOR THE UNEXPIRED <--
18 TERM by the [judges of the court of common pleas for the <--
19 unexpired term] CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OR <--
20 THE PRESIDENT JUDGE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS DEPENDING UPON
21 WHO ORIGINALLY APPOINTED THE BOARD MEMBER. The members of the
22 board shall serve without compensation. [The county
23 commissioners and the controller shall be members ex-officio of
24 the board of managers with the same rights, powers and
25 privileges given to and possessed by the six members of the
26 board appointed by the court.]
27 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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