PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 192 PRINTER'S NO. 638
No. 190 Session of 1977
INTRODUCED BY HILL, SWEENEY, SNYDER, HOLL AND JUBELIRER,
FEBRUARY 7, 1977
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, MARCH 28, 1977
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 18 (Crimes and Offenses) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, FURTHER PROVIDING FOR COMMENCEMENT OF <--
3 PROSECUTIONS AND changing reasonable to unreasonable.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Subsection (e) of section 108 of Title 18, act of
7 November 25, 1970 (P.L.707, No.230), known as the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes, is amended to read:
9 § 108. Time limitations.
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11 (e) Commencement of prosecution.--A prosecution is commenced
12 either when an indictment is found or when an information is
13 issued by an attorney for the Commonwealth in those counties
14 where he is authorized to do so or when a warrant or summons is
15 issued, if such warrant or summons is executed without
16 [reasonable] unreasonable delay.
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18 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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