PRINTER'S NO. 141

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA


HOUSE BILL

No. 167 Session of 1995


        INTRODUCED BY STABACK, JANUARY 20, 1995

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 20, 1995

                                     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 county appropriations for the observance of Flag
     6     Day.

     7     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     8  hereby enacts as follows:
     9     Section 1.  The heading and subsection (a) of section 1921 of
    10  the act of August 9, 1955 (P.L.323, No.130), known as The County
    11  Code, amended October 4, 1978 (P.L.964, No.190), are amended to
    12  read:
    13     Section 1921.  Appropriations to Veterans' Organizations for
    14  Expenses of Memorial Day; Veterans' Day, Flag Day and
    15  Independence Day.--(a)  The board of commissioners may
    16  appropriate, annually, to each camp of the United Spanish War
    17  Veterans, and to each post of the American Legion, and to each
    18  post of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and to each post of the
    19  Veterans of World War I of the U. S. A., Inc., and to each post


     1  of the American War Veterans of World War II (AMVETS), and to
     2  each post of the Society of the Twenty-eighth Division, AEF,
     3  Incorporated, and to each post of the Italian American War
     4  Veterans of the United States, Incorporated, and to each
     5  detachment of the Marine Corps League, and to each Naval
     6  Association, and to each post of the Grand Army of the Republic,
     7  and to each post of the Disabled American Veterans of the World
     8  War, and to each organization of American Gold Star Mothers, and
     9  to each organization of ex-service persons incorporated under
    10  the act of April twenty-nine, one thousand eight hundred
    11  seventy-four (Pamphlet Laws 73), and the supplements thereto, in
    12  the county, any sum budgeted to aid in defraying the expenses of
    13  Memorial Day, Veterans' Day, Flag Day and Independence Day.
    14     * * *
    15     Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.










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