PRINTER'S NO. 1014
No. 891 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY SAYLOR, MARSICO, R. MILLER, CLYMER, GEIST, BAKER,
BALDWIN, CALTAGIRONE, CREIGHTON, DeLUCA, FRANKEL, GODSHALL,
HALUSKA, KOTIK, LEVDANSKY, MARKOSEK, MUNDY, SCAVELLO,
SOLOBAY, STURLA AND YOUNGBLOOD, MARCH 14, 2005
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARCH 14, 2005
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," permitting the Pennsylvania
21 State Police to charge certain municipalities for certain
22 services.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. Section 710(i) of the act of April 9, 1929
26 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929,
27 added October 3, 1986 (P.L.1414, No.129), is amended and the
1 section is amended by adding a subsection to read:
2 Section 710. Pennsylvania State Police.--The Pennsylvania
3 State Police shall have the power and its duty shall be:
4 * * *
5 (i) To collect information relating to crimes and incidents
6 related to the race, color, religion or national origin of
7 individuals or groups, which shall be reported monthly by all
8 local law enforcement agencies and the State Fire Marshal. Any
9 information, records and statistics collected in accordance with
10 this subsection shall be available for use by any agency
11 required to furnish information, to the extent that such
12 information is reasonably necessary or useful to such agency in
13 carrying out the duties imposed on it by law. The Commissioner
14 of the Pennsylvania State Police may, by regulation, establish
15 such conditions for the use or availability of such information
16 as may be necessary to its preservation, the protection of
17 confidential information, or the circumstances of a pending
18 prosecution[.];
19 (j) To establish a fee schedule for services rendered to
20 municipalities having a population in excess of ten thousand
21 (10,000) or a population density in excess of one hundred sixty
22 (160) persons per square mile which rely on the Pennsylvania
23 State Police as the primary police agency. Fees shall not be
24 established for specialized police services available to all
25 municipalities, only for primary police services in
26 municipalities without the protection of an organized police
27 department. Such fees shall be paid into the General Fund.
28 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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