PRINTER'S NO. 1047
No. 960 Session of 1981
INTRODUCED BY MACKOWSKI, COSLETT, MICOZZIE, CIVERA, WASS,
PICCOLA, LEVI, BOYES, DAIKELER, SAURMAN, FRYER, GLADECK,
MERRY, E. Z. TAYLOR, LEWIS, BURD, W. D. HUTCHINSON, WACHOB,
CUNNINGHAM, HEISER, FLECK, SIEMINSKI, NOYE, PETERSON, DUFFY,
LASHINGER, STEWART, W. W. FOSTER, FREIND AND SNYDER,
MARCH 23, 1981
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARCH 23, 1981
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 18, 1974 (P.L.359, No.120), entitled
2 "An act creating the Municipal Police Officers' Education and
3 Training Commission; providing for the commission's
4 membership, selection, compensation, and removal; providing
5 for the powers and duties of the commission; providing for
6 the appointment and duties of the chairman; providing for the
7 act's applicability to the civil service laws; requiring
8 training by certain political subdivisions and police
9 departments; providing penalties for violation thereof; and
10 making an appropriation," increasing the commission
11 membership and quorum requirements.
12 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
13 hereby enacts as follows:
14 Section 1. The introductory paragraph and clause (6) of
15 subsection (a) of section 4 and section 7, act of June 18, 1974
16 (P.L.359, No.120), referred to as the Municipal Police Education
17 and Training Law, are amended to read:
18 Section 4. Commission Members; Selection, Compensation and
19 Removal.--(a) The commission shall be composed of [seventeen]
20 eighteen members as follows:
1 * * *
2 (6) Three elected officials of the various political
3 subdivisions of the Commonwealth, to be appointed by the
4 Governor; one to be a borough official, one a first class
5 township official, one a second class township official, and one
6 a city official.
7 * * *
8 Section 7. Meetings; Quorum.--The chairman shall summon the
9 members of the commission to the first meeting within one
10 hundred twenty days of enactment. The commission shall meet at
11 least four times each year. Special meetings may be called by
12 the chairman of the commission, or upon written request of five
13 members. A quorum shall consist of [nine] ten members of the
14 commission.
15 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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