PRINTER'S NO. 1599
No. 1339 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY GANNON, ARTY, KENNEY, CIVERA, DURHAM, RYBAK, NOYE,
ACOSTA, RAYMOND AND PERZEL, JUNE 3, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, JUNE 3, 1985
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of January 22, 1968 (P.L.42, No.8), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act empowering and authorizing the Department
3 of Transportation to establish and administer certain grant
4 programs for the betterment of mass transportation systems
5 and facilities throughout the Commonwealth; providing for
6 State grants to transportation companies, municipalities,
7 counties, or their instrumentalities and to agencies and
8 instrumentalities of the Commonwealth for studies, research,
9 demonstration programs, promotion programs, purchase of
10 service projects, and capital improvement projects under
11 certain conditions; authorizing grants by counties or
12 municipalities in metropolitan areas to local transportation
13 organizations, authorizing the creation of a transportation
14 authority to function in each metropolitan area consisting of
15 any county of the first class and all nearby counties within
16 a radius of twenty miles of any such first class county, as a
17 body corporate and politic for the purpose of establishing an
18 integrated mass transportation system with all pertinent
19 powers including, but not limited to, leasing, acquiring,
20 owning, operating and maintaining a system for, or otherwise
21 providing for, the transportation of persons, authorizing the
22 borrowing of money and issuance of bonds therefor, conferring
23 the right of eminent domain on the authority; altering the
24 jurisdiction of the Public Utility Commission, authorizing
25 the acceptance of grants from Federal, State and local
26 governments, limiting actions against the authority and
27 exempting it from taxation, authorizing counties and
28 municipalities to enter into compacts for the financing of
29 each authority and to make appropriations in accordance with
30 such compacts, creating a citizen advisory committee,
31 conferring exclusive jurisdiction upon certain courts with
32 respect to matters relating to such authority, empowering
33 each authority to function outside of the metropolitan area
1 under certain terms and conditions," providing for certain
2 subsidy payments denied during work stoppages.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. The act of January 22, 1968 (P.L.42, No.8), known
6 as the Pennsylvania Urban Mass Transportation Law, is amended by
7 adding a section to read:
8 Section 406.1. Certain Subsidy Payments Denied During Work
9 Stoppages.--The Department of Transportation shall not make any
10 mass transportation subsidy payment to any transportation
11 authority serving a metropolitan area consisting of a county of
12 the first class and adjoining counties, during the period of any
13 work stoppage. Payments may resume upon cessation of the work
14 stoppage as evidenced by written statements of authorized
15 representatives or both labor and management.
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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