PRINTER'S NO. 2719
No. 2139 Session of 1978
INTRODUCED BY MILLIRON, CASSIDY, REED, ZORD, MORRIS,
A. C. FOSTER JR., DORR, COWELL, KERNICK, GILLETTE, KOLTER,
BROWN, PITTS, ZWIKL, PANCOAST AND POLITE, MARCH 14, 1978
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 14, 1978
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," imposing additional duties
21 on the Department of Transportation and the Civil Service
22 Commission; requiring standardized tests for the positions of
23 county maintenance supervisor and assistant county
24 maintenance supervisors and requiring current supervisors to
25 submit to such test within one year after development.
26 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
27 hereby enacts as follows:
28 Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known
29 as "The Administrative Code of 1929," is amended by adding a
1 section to read:
2 Section 2004.1. Selection of County Maintenance
3 Supervisors.--(a) All individuals to be considered by the
4 Department of Transportation for appointment to the position of
5 county maintenance supervisor or assistant county maintenance
6 supervisor shall submit to a standardized test to be developed
7 by the Civil Service Commission and administered by said
8 commission at such times and in such places as requested by the
9 Department of Transportation. The results of such standardized
10 tests shall be forwarded to the Department of Transportation and
11 shall be the basis used by the Secretary of Transportation in
12 filling, at his pleasure, vacancies in these positions and
13 making new appointments to the position of county maintenance
14 supervisor or assistant county maintenance supervisor.
15 (b) All individuals who hold positions as county maintenance
16 supervisors or assistant county maintenance supervisors and who
17 have not complied with the provisions of subsection (a) shall,
18 within one year from the development of such standardized tests,
19 submit to and pass such test in order to retain such positions.
20 (c) The Civil Service Commission in cooperation with the
21 Department of Transportation shall develop a standardized test
22 which relates to the function, duties, operations and
23 responsibilities of the positions of county maintenance
24 supervisor and assistant county maintenance supervisor.
25 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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