PRINTER'S NO. 2350
No. 1806 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY LASHINGER, DECEMBER 14, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 14, 1983
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 9, 1976 (P.L.586, No.142), entitled "An
2 act amending Titles 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure), 15
3 (Corporations and Unincorporated Associations), 18 (Crimes
4 and Offenses) and 71 (State Government) of the Pennsylvania
5 Consolidated Statutes, adding revised, codified and compiled
6 provisions relating to judiciary and judicial procedure,
7 including certain judicially enforceable rights, duties,
8 immunities and liabilities and separately enacting certain
9 related provisions of law," further providing for fees for
10 public law libraries in counties of the second class A.
11 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
12 hereby enacts as follows:
13 Section 1. Section 24 of the act of July 9, 1976 (P.L.586,
14 No.142), known as the Judiciary Act of 1976, is amended by
15 adding a subsection to read:
16 Section 24. Financial matters.--* * *
17 (e.1) Until otherwise provided by statute, the prothonotary
18 and the clerk of the orphans' court division of all counties of
19 the second class A shall set apart from the fees fixed under or
20 pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. § 1725 or under any other statute and
21 collected by them on the following actions, and proceedings and
1 remit monthly the total collected to the county treasurer for
2 the exclusive use and benefit of the public law library in the
3 county if the county commissioners so request:
4 (1) The sum of $15 for the commencement of any civil
5 action or proceeding.
6 (2) The sum of $15 for the probate of a will, the
7 issuance of letters of administration or any petition for
8 disposition of decedents estates independent of the issuance
9 of letters testamentary or of administration.
10 (3) The sum of $15 for the filing of any account of any
11 fiduciary in the office of the clerk of the orphans' court
12 division or in the office of the prothonotary.
13 * * *
14 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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