PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 96 PRINTER'S NO. 1414
No. 94 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY MESSRS. GREEN, CUMBERLAND AND PRATT,
JANUARY 27, 1975
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON LAW AND JUSTICE, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, MAY 7, 1975
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," authorizing certain Campus
21 Police to assist certain municipal authorities in emergency
22 situations.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. The last paragraph of subsection (h) of section
26 2416, act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as "The
27 Administrative Code of 1929," amended July 7, 1968 (P.L.297,
1 No.149), is amended to read:
2 Section 2416. Capitol Police, Commonwealth Property Police
3 and Campus Police.--The Capitol Police, Commonwealth Property
4 Police and the Security or Campus Police of all State colleges
5 and universities and State aided or related colleges and
6 universities shall have the power, and their duty shall be:
7 * * *
8 Security and Campus Police shall exercise their powers and
9 perform their duties only on the premises of the State colleges
10 and universities and State aided or related colleges and
11 universities by or for which they are employed and only after
12 they have completed a course of training INCLUDING CRISIS <--
13 INTERVENTION TRAINING AND RIOT CONTROL AS approved by the police
14 commissioner or chief of the municipality in which said premises
15 are located except, that Campus Police employed by State aided <--
16 or related OWNED colleges and universities located in any <--
17 municipalities, other than cities of the first class or second
18 class may , ARE AUTHORIZED, in emergency situations occurring <--
19 within the municipality, upon the request of the mayor or other
20 executive authority and under the direction of the local law
21 enforcement authorities, TO exercise those powers and perform <--
22 those duties conferred pursuant to this section within the
23 municipality for the limited purpose of aiding local authorities
24 in emergency situations. WHEN SO ACTING, THE CAMPUS POLICE SHALL <--
25 BE ACTING WITHIN THE SCOPE OF THE AUTHORITY OF THIS ACT AND ARE,
26 AT ALL TIMES, STATE EMPLOYES OF THIS COMMONWEALTH AND ENTITLED
27 TO ALL THE RIGHTS AND BENEFITS ACCRUING THEREFROM.
28 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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