PRINTER'S NO. 2073
No. 1669 Session of 1971
INTRODUCED BY MESSRS. MELTON AND BARBER, NOVEMBER 11, 1971
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LAW AND ORDER, NOVEMBER 29, 1971
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 3, 1919 (P.L.366), entitled "An act
2 reorganizing the Department of State Police; creating therein
3 a Bureau of Fire Protection; providing for a State Police
4 Force, and defining the powers and duties of the same,
5 including the enforcement of laws relating to game, fish,
6 forestry, and water supply, and certain other laws, and
7 including the collection of information useful for the
8 detection of crime, and the apprehension of criminals;
9 providing for the equipment, maintenance, and transportation
10 of such police; providing for barracks and substations
11 therefor; and prescribing penalties," reducing certain age
12 requirements.
13 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
14 hereby enacts as follows:
15 Section 1. Subsection (a) of section 8, act of June 3, 1919
16 (P.L.366), entitled "An act reorganizing the Department of State
17 Police; creating therein a Bureau of Fire Protection; providing
18 for a State Police Force, and defining the powers and duties of
19 the same, including the enforcement of laws relating to game,
20 fish, forestry, and water supply, and certain other laws, and
21 including the collection of information useful for the detection
22 of crime, and the apprehension of criminals; providing for the
23 equipment, maintenance and transportation of such police;
1 providing for barracks and substations therefor; and prescribing
2 penalties," amended May 16, 1945 (P.L.583), is amended to read:
3 Section 8. (a) No applicant shall be appointed to the
4 Pennsylvania State Police Force until he has satisfactorily
5 passed a physical and mental examination, based upon the
6 standard provided by the rules and regulations of the police
7 force of the cities of the first class, in addition to which
8 each applicant must be a citizen of the United States, and of
9 sound constitution, able to ride, of good moral character, and
10 between the ages of [twenty-one] eighteen and forty years.
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