PRINTER'S NO. 3625
No. 2636 Session of 1998
INTRODUCED BY SEYFERT, ARGALL, CORRIGAN, EGOLF, FAIRCHILD,
FARGO, GEIST, HERMAN, HERSHEY, KENNEY, McNAUGHTON, NICKOL,
ORIE, PESCI, PIPPY, ROSS, SAYLOR, SERAFINI, STERN, STEVENSON,
E. Z. TAYLOR, TIGUE, ZIMMERMAN, ZUG AND BENNINGHOFF,
JUNE 2, 1998
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, JUNE 2, 1998
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 24, 1937 (P.L.2017, No.396), entitled
2 "An act creating in each county (except of the first class)
3 as a separate corporation, and in each city of the first and
4 second class as a part of the city government, an
5 institutional district for the care and maintenance of
6 certain indigent persons and children; prescribing the powers
7 and duties of county commissioners, county treasurers, city
8 departments of public welfare, the State Department of
9 Welfare and the State Department of Public Assistance in
10 respect thereto; abolishing certain poor districts and
11 terminating the terms of directors, overseers, guardians and
12 managers of the poor and poor district auditors, and
13 providing for the temporary employment of certain of them;
14 providing for the transfer, vesting, sale and disposition of
15 the property of poor districts and the payment of their
16 obligations; imposing certain existing obligations on
17 institution districts and on the Commonwealth; regulating the
18 affairs of poor districts until abolished; revising,
19 amending, changing and consolidating the law relating to the
20 care of the poor; and repealing existing laws," repealing the
21 duty of counties to provide treatment to indigents for
22 hydrophobia.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. Section 404 of the act of June 24, 1937
26 (P.L.2017, No.396), known as the County Institution District
1 Law, is repealed.
2 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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