PRINTER'S NO. 749
No. 704 Session of 1975
INTRODUCED BY CIANFRANI, JUNE 2, 1975
REFERRED TO STATE GOVERNMENT, JUNE 2, 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," prohibiting the assignment
21 of personnel to circumvent appropriation limits.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Section 501, act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
25 No.175), known as "The Administrative Code of 1929," is amended
26 to read:
27 Section 501. Coordination of Work.--The several
28 administrative departments, and the several independent
1 administrative and departmental administrative boards and
2 commissions, shall devise a practical and working basis for
3 cooperation and coordination of work, eliminating, duplicating,
4 and overlapping of functions, and shall, so far as practical
5 cooperate with each other in the use of employes, land,
6 buildings, quarters, facilities, and equipment. The head of any
7 administrative department, or any independent administrative or
8 departmental administrative board or commission, may empower or
9 require an employe of another such department, board, or
10 commission, subject to the consent of the head of such
11 department or of such board or commission, to perform any duty
12 which he or it might require of the employes of his or its own
13 department, board, or commission: Provided, however, That
14 employes shall not be assigned to another department, board or
15 commission in order to circumvent appropriation limits.
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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