PRINTER'S NO. 699
No. 657 Session of 1977
INTRODUCED BY EARLY, ORLANDO, STAUFFER AND LEWIS, MARCH 30, 1977
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARCH 30, 1977
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 23, 1931 (P.L.932, No.317), entitled
2 "An act relating to cities of the third class; and amending,
3 revising, and consolidating the law relating thereto,"
4 permitting advertisement of the titles and summarizations in
5 lieu of the entire text of proposed ordinances.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Section 1014, act of June 23, 1931 (P.L.932,
9 No.317), known as "The Third Class City Code," reenacted and
10 amended June 28, 1951 (P.L.662, No.164), and amended July 29,
11 1971 (P.L.250, No.61), is amended to read:
12 Section 1014. Time of Taking Effect of Ordinances;
13 Publication; Recording; Proof and Evidence; Notice of Building,
14 Housing, Fire Prevention, Electrical, Plumbing and Zoning
15 Ordinances and Other Standard or Nationally Recognized Codes,
16 Maps and Plans.--All ordinances shall, unless otherwise provided
17 therein or by law, take effect in ten days after their passage,
18 upon their being signed by the mayor and attested by the city
19 clerk. Every proposed ordinance, except as otherwise herein
20 provided, prescribing a penalty for the violation thereof shall
1 be forthwith published [at least three times, each publication
2 on a different day,] not more than sixty days nor less than
3 seven days prior to passage in at least one and not more than
4 two newspapers printed or circulated within the city, in the
5 manner provided by section one hundred and nine of this act.
6 Publication of any proposed ordinance shall include either the
7 full text thereof or the title and a brief summary prepared by
8 the city solicitor setting forth all the provisions in
9 reasonable detail and a reference to a place within the city
10 where copies of the proposed ordinance may be examined. If the
11 full text is not included a copy thereof shall be supplied to a
12 newspaper of general circulation in the city at the time the
13 public notice is published. If the full text is not included an
14 attested copy thereof shall be filed in the county law library
15 or other county office designated by the county commissioners
16 who may impose a fee no greater than that necessary to cover the
17 actual costs of storing said ordinances. In the event
18 substantial amendments are made in the proposed ordinance or
19 resolution, before voting upon enactment, council shall within
20 ten days readvertise in one newspaper of general circulation in
21 the city, a brief summary setting forth all the provisions in
22 reasonable detail together with a summary of the amendments. All
23 ordinances shall, within one month after their passage, be
24 certified and recorded by the city clerk, in a book provided by
25 the city for that purpose, which shall be at all times open to
26 the inspection of citizens. Any and all city ordinances, or
27 portions thereof, the text of which, prior to the effective date
28 of this amending act, shall have been attached to the city
29 ordinance book, shall be considered in force just as if such
30 ordinances, or portions thereof, had been recorded directly upon
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1 the pages of such ordinance book: Provided, That all other
2 requirements of this act applicable to the enactment, approval,
3 advertising and recording of such ordinance, or portions
4 thereof, were complied with within the time prescribed by this
5 act. All ordinances, resolutions, motions or other proceedings
6 of council may be proved by the certificate of the city clerk
7 under the corporate seal, and when printed or published in book
8 or pamphlet form by authority of the city, shall be read and
9 received as evidence in all courts and elsewhere without further
10 proof. At least one week and not more than three weeks prior to
11 the first reading of any proposed building code, ordinance,
12 housing code, ordinance, fire prevention code, ordinance,
13 electrical code, ordinance, plumbing code, ordinance, or zoning
14 ordinance, or any standard or nationally recognized code,
15 ordinance, or any changes or variations of any standard or
16 nationally recognized code, or parts thereof, by council, an
17 informative notice of intention to consider such ordinance and a
18 brief summary setting forth the principal provisions of the
19 proposed ordinance in such reasonable detail as will give
20 adequate notice of its contents, and a reference to the place or
21 places within the city where copies of the proposed building
22 code, housing code, fire prevention code, electrical code,
23 plumbing code, or zoning ordinance or any standard or nationally
24 recognized code may be examined or obtained, shall be published
25 in the manner herein provided for the publication of ordinances.
26 Such building code, ordinance, housing code, ordinance, fire
27 prevention code, ordinance, electrical code, ordinance, plumbing
28 code, ordinance, or zoning ordinance or any standard or
29 nationally recognized code, ordinance, shall not be published
30 after adoption, but not less than three copies thereof shall be
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1 made available for public inspection, and use during business
2 hours for at least three months after adoption, and printed
3 copies thereof shall be supplied upon demand, at cost. In any
4 case in which maps, plans or drawings of any kind are to be
5 adopted as part of an ordinance, council may, instead of
6 publishing the same as part of the ordinance, refer, in
7 publishing the ordinance or a summary thereof, to the place
8 where such maps, plans or drawings are on file and may be
9 examined.
10 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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