PRINTER'S NO. 358
No. 314 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY STEIGHNER, BOYES, GEORGE, NOYE, MERRY, KUKOVICH,
CIMINI, WACHOB, COY, DeWEESE, MICHLOVIC, DOMBROWSKI, RYBAK
AND PISTELLA, MARCH 14, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON CONSERVATION, MARCH 14, 1983
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," restricting the powers of
21 the Environmental Quality Board as to fees charged to the
22 public relating to the use of State parks.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. Section 1920-A(f) of the act of April 9, 1929
26 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929,
27 amended July 1, 1981 (P.L.177, No.51), is amended to read:
1 Section 1920-A. Environmental Quality Board.--* * *
2 (f) The board shall establish such rules and regulations,
3 not inconsistent with law, for the control, management,
4 protection, utilization, development, occupancy and use of the
5 lands and resources of State parks, as it may deem necessary to
6 conserve the interests of the Commonwealth. Such rules and
7 regulations shall be compatible with the purposes for which
8 State parks are created. Whenever the board imposes fees or
9 charges for activities, admissions, uses or privileges,
10 including charges for concessions, at or relating to State
11 parks, such charges or fees shall be used solely for the
12 acquisition, maintenance, operation or administration of the
13 State parks systems, and are hereby appropriated for such
14 purposes. After the effective date of this amendatory act, no
15 charges or fees shall be imposed by the board on the public for
16 activities, admissions, uses or privileges relating to State
17 parks.
18 * * *
19 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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