PRINTER'S NO. 2088
No. 1684 Session of 1971
INTRODUCED BY MESSRS. MELTON AND BARBER, NOVEMBER 11, 1971
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, NOVEMBER 29, 1971
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 18, 1969 (P.L.163), entitled "An act
2 relating to property held for orphan beneficiaries of
3 charitable uses or trusts administered by cities of the first
4 class; making the agency of the city which administers the
5 charitable use or trust, the guardian of the person and
6 estate of the orphan," reducing certain age requirements.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 1, act of July 18, 1969 (P.L.163),
10 entitled "An act relating to property held for orphan
11 beneficiaries of charitable uses or trusts administered by
12 cities of the first class; making the agency of the city which
13 administers the charitable use or trust, the guardian of the
14 person and estate of the orphan," is amended to read:
15 Section 1. Whenever any city of the first class of this
16 Commonwealth shall be charged with the administration of any
17 charitable use or trust for both the maintenance and education
18 of orphans, it shall, without application to any court, act as
19 guardian of the person and estate of each of such orphans,
20 through the same agency that administers the charitable use or
1 trust. In case any such orphan child, at or before the time said
2 city is charged with the administration of such a charitable use
3 or trust, or during the remaining time it acts as guardian of
4 his estate, shall possess or become entitled to any effects or
5 property, the said city shall be entitled, in like manner as
6 other guardians, to demand and receive the same from any person
7 having possession thereof, or owning the same, and to give
8 acquittance therefor; and it shall be the duty of the said city
9 to take care of the same as guardians, and to make the same
10 productive as far as reasonably can be, and to deliver and pay
11 over the same with the increase, less expenditures made in the
12 exercise of a reasonable discretion, to the said orphan, on his
13 attaining the age of [twenty-one] eighteen years, or to his
14 legal representatives if he shall die before attaining that age.
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