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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| SENATE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY ERICKSON, EICHELBERGER AND STOUT, JUNE 5, 2009 |
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| REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, JUNE 5, 2009 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), entitled, |
2 | as amended, "An act relating to counties of the second class |
3 | and second class A; amending, revising, consolidating and |
4 | changing the laws relating thereto," further providing for |
5 | required financial reporting; and making editorial changes. |
6 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
7 | hereby enacts as follows: |
8 | Section 1. Section 1920 of the act of July 28, 1953 |
9 | (P.L.723, No.230), known as the Second Class County Code, |
10 | amended December 14, 1989 (P.L.631, No.75), is amended to read: |
11 | Section 1920. Controller's Settlement of Accounts; Report to |
12 | Common Pleas; Publications; Financial Report to Department of |
13 | Community [Affairs] and Economic Development.--The controller |
14 | shall, at the end of each fiscal year, complete the audit, |
15 | settlement and adjustment of the accounts of all county |
16 | officers. He shall, in the month of [May] July in every year, |
17 | make a report, verified by oath or affirmation, to the court of |
18 | common pleas of said county, of all receipts and expenditures of |
19 | the county for the preceding year, in detail, and classified by |
20 | reference to the object thereof, together with a full statement |
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1 | of the financial conditions of the county. A concise summary of |
2 | this report shall thereupon be published one time in such |
3 | newspapers published in the county as the controller may direct, |
4 | but the aggregate cost thereof shall not exceed four thousand |
5 | dollars ($4,000) in any one year, to be paid for out of the |
6 | county treasury. Such report may also be published in printed |
7 | pamphlets, at the cost of the county, the number and cost of |
8 | such pamphlets to be determined by the controller and the county |
9 | commissioners. The controller shall also, by the first Monday of |
10 | the month of [May] July of the year after the close of the |
11 | fiscal year, make an annual report to the Department of |
12 | Community [Affairs] and Economic Development of the financial |
13 | condition of the county, on forms furnished by the Secretary of |
14 | Community [Affairs] and Economic Development, and subject to the |
15 | penalties provided in section 1921 of this act for the |
16 | controller refusing or neglecting to make similar reports. |
17 | Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately. |
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