PRINTER'S NO. 724
No. 647 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY PICCOLA, PHILLIPS, VROON, GANNON, HALUSKA AND
WASS, APRIL 6, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, APRIL 6, 1983
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of August 9, 1955 (P.L.323, No.130), entitled
2 "An act relating to counties of the third, fourth, fifth,
3 sixth, seventh and eighth classes; amending, revising,
4 consolidating and changing the laws relating thereto,"
5 authorizing State associations of county detectives.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Sections 440 and 442 of the act of August 9, 1955
9 (P.L.323, No.130), known as The County Code, amended September
10 28, 1978 (P.L.800, No.154), are amended to read:
11 Section 440. State Associations Authorized.--County officers
12 of each county may organize for themselves a State association
13 as follows:
14 (1) The county commissioners, together with the county
15 solicitor and the chief clerk to the county commissioners and
16 certain officers who are counterpart personnel in counties
17 having a Home Rule Charter or optional form of government.
18 (2) The county controllers.
19 (3) The sheriffs.
1 (4) The district attorneys.
2 (5) The probation officers.
3 (6) The registers of wills and clerks of orphans' courts.
4 (7) The prothonotaries and clerks of courts of quarter
5 sessions.
6 (8) The county treasurers.
7 (9) The recorders of deeds.
8 (10) The directors of veterans' affairs.
9 (11) The coroners.
10 (12) Jury commissioners.
11 (13) The county auditors.
12 (14) The public defenders.
13 (15) The county detectives.
14 Section 442. Deputies and Solicitors May Attend Annual
15 Meetings.--The deputy controller, the deputy sheriff, the deputy
16 register of wills, the deputy clerk of orphans' court, the
17 deputy treasurer, the deputy prothonotary, the deputy clerk of
18 the courts of quarter sessions, the first assistant district
19 attorney, the first assistant chief of county detectives, one
20 assistant public defender and the deputy recorder of deeds and
21 the chief deputy coroner, with the approval of his principal,
22 and the solicitor for each officer, may attend the annual
23 meetings of his respective associations either together with the
24 controller, sheriff, register of wills, treasurer, prothonotary,
25 clerk of the courts of quarter sessions, district attorney,
26 chief of county detectives, public defender, recorder of deeds
27 or coroner as the case may be or in his place.
28 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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