PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 905 PRINTER'S NO. 1512
No. 815 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY RYAN, PERZEL, DeWEESE, FEESE, BLAUM AND GANNON,
FEBRUARY 26, 2001
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, APRIL 4, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 1 (General Provisions) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for notice for local
3 or special legislation.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1102(a) and (e) of Title 1 of the
7 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:
8 § 1102. Publication of notice of application for local or
9 special legislation.
10 (a) General rule.--No local or special bill[, either] to
11 [repeal or] enact a local or special statute, shall be passed by
12 the General Assembly, unless notice of the intention to apply
13 therefor shall be published, once a week for four successive
14 weeks, in not less than two newspapers of general circulation,
15 and also in the legal journal, if any, published in the county
16 or in each of the several counties where the matter or thing
17 affected may be. Where the matter or thing affected is in a
1 municipality, publication shall be made in two newspapers of
2 general circulation published in such municipality, if any, and,
3 if none, then in two newspapers published in the county, and, in
4 either event, also in the legal journal, if any, published in
5 the county. Where only one newspaper of general circulation is
6 published in a county or in a municipality, publication in such
7 one newspaper and in the legal journal, if any, shall be deemed
8 sufficient.
9 * * *
10 (e) Exception from notice requirement.--Notice shall not be
11 required to be given under this section of a proposal to repeal
12 a local or special statute [by a general bill which codifies, <--
13 complies or revises the law or any part thereof]. A LOCAL OR <--
14 SPECIAL STATUTE BY [A] ANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
15 (1) A GENERAL BILL WHICH CODIFIES, COMPILES OR REVISES
16 THE LAW OR ANY PART THEREOF.
17 (2) A BILL WHICH:
18 (I) ONLY ELIMINATES OBSOLETE STATUTORY PROVISIONS;
19 AND
20 (II) MAKES SPECIFIC REFERENCE IN ITS TITLE TO THAT
21 ELIMINATION.
22 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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