PRINTER'S NO. 354
No. 310 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY WACHOB, MARCH 14, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON FINANCE, MARCH 14, 1983
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.343, No.176), entitled
2 "An act relating to the finances of the State government;
3 providing for the settlement, assessment, collection, and
4 lien of taxes, bonus, and all other accounts due the
5 Commonwealth, the collection and recovery of fees and other
6 money or property due or belonging to the Commonwealth, or
7 any agency thereof, including escheated property and the
8 proceeds of its sale, the custody and disbursement or other
9 disposition of funds and securities belonging to or in the
10 possession of the Commonwealth, and the settlement of claims
11 against the Commonwealth, the resettlement of accounts and
12 appeals to the courts, refunds of moneys erroneously paid to
13 the Commonwealth, auditing the accounts of the Commonwealth
14 and all agencies thereof, of all public officers collecting
15 moneys payable to the Commonwealth, or any agency thereof,
16 and all receipts of appropriations from the Commonwealth and
17 imposing penalties; affecting every department, board,
18 commission, and officer of the State government, every
19 political subdivision of the State, and certain officers of
20 such subdivisions, every person, association, and corporation
21 required to pay, assess, or collect taxes, or to make returns
22 or reports under the laws imposing taxes for State purposes,
23 or to pay license fees or other moneys to the Commonwealth,
24 or any agency thereof, every State depository and every
25 debtor or creditor of the Commonwealth," further providing
26 for the disposition of certain property.
27 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
28 hereby enacts as follows:
29 Section 1. Section 1301.17(a) of the act of April 9, 1929
1 (P.L.343, No.176), known as The Fiscal Code, added December 7,
2 1982 (P.L.1057, No.248), is amended to read:
3 Section 1301.17. Sale of Property.--(a) Within a reasonable
4 time after delivery to him of any property under this article,
5 the secretary shall sell it to the highest bidder at public sale
6 in whatever city in [the] this Commonwealth affords, in his
7 judgment, the most favorable market for the property involved.
8 The secretary may decline the highest bid or reoffer the
9 property for sale if he considers the price bid insufficient. He
10 need not offer any property for sale, if, in his opinion, the
11 probable cost of sale exceeds the value of the property. In the
12 case of rifles, shotguns, handguns or other firearms delivered
13 to the secretary under this act, such weapons shall not be
14 destroyed by the secretary unless they are of an illegal type
15 which has no lawful use, or unless they have no value as an
16 antique or collector's item. Those rifles, shotguns, handguns
17 and other firearms not subject to destruction by the secretary
18 under this section shall be offered for public sale in the same
19 manner as other property subject to this act.
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21 Section 2. THis act shall take effect in 60 days.
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