PRINTER'S NO. 102
No. 101 Session of 1981
INTRODUCED BY MILLER, JANUARY 19, 1981
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JANUARY 19, 1981
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," restricting the powers of
21 the Environmental Quality Board as to fees charged to the
22 public relating to the use of State parks.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. Clause (f) of section 1920-A, act of April 9,
26 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as "The Administrative Code of
27 1929," added December 3, 1970 (P.L.834, No.275), is amended to
1 read:
2 Section 1920-A. Environmental Quality Board.--* * *
3 (f) The board shall establish such rules and regulations,
4 not inconsistent with law, for the control, management,
5 protection, utilization, development, occupancy and use of the
6 lands and resources of State parks, as it may deem necessary to
7 conserve the interests of the Commonwealth. Such rules and
8 regulations shall be compatible with the purposes for which
9 State parks are created. After the effective date of this
10 amendatory act, no increased, additional or new charges or fees
11 shall be imposed by the board on the public for activities,
12 admissions, uses or privileges relating to State parks until
13 such charges or fees are approved by the General Assembly. The
14 board shall hold public hearings on such charges or fees before
15 they are submitted to the General Assembly. Such public hearings
16 shall be held in the general geographic area of the State park
17 affected when the charges or fees relate to an individual park;
18 and in the case of charges or fees effecting all State parks,
19 the hearings shall be held in at least three separate locations
20 in the eastern, western and central portions of the
21 Commonwealth. After such public hearings where the opinions of
22 the general public shall be solicited and considered, the board
23 shall submit its recommendations to the General Assembly for
24 approval. Such approval shall take the form of a concurrent
25 resolution of the House of Representatives and Senate.
26 * * *
27 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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