PRINTER'S NO. 565
No. 504 Session of 1983
INTRODUCED BY PISTELLA, McVERRY, TRELLO, MICHLOVIC, SEVENTY,
COWELL, MARKOSEK, MAYERNIK AND ITKIN, MARCH 21, 1983
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, MARCH 21, 1983
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act relating to counties of the second class
3 and second class A; amending, revising, consolidating and
4 changing the laws relating thereto," changing the date for
5 filing financial reports with the Department of Community
6 Affairs.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 1920 of the act of July 28, 1953
10 (P.L.723, No.230), known as the Second Class County Code,
11 amended November 5, 1981 (P.L.330, No.120), is amended to read:
12 Section 1920. Controller's Settlement of Accounts; Report to
13 Common Pleas; Publications; Financial Report to Department of
14 Community Affairs.--The controller shall, at the end of each
15 fiscal year, complete the audit, settlement and adjustment of
16 the accounts of all county officers. He shall, in the month of
17 May in every year, make a report, verified by oath or
18 affirmation, to the court of common pleas of said county, of all
19 receipts and expenditures of the county for the preceding year,
1 in detail, and classified by reference to the object thereof,
2 together with a full statement of the financial conditions of
3 the county. A concise summary of this report shall thereupon be
4 published one time in such newspapers published in the county as
5 the controller may direct, but the aggregate cost thereof shall
6 not exceed two thousand dollars ($2000) in any one year, to be
7 paid for out of the county treasury. Such report may also be
8 published in printed pamphlets, at the cost of the county, the
9 number and cost of such pamphlets to be determined by the
10 controller and the county commissioners. The controller shall
11 also, [within sixty days] in the month of May of the year after
12 the close of the fiscal year, make an annual report to the
13 Department of Community Affairs of the financial condition of
14 the county, on forms furnished by the Secretary of Community
15 Affairs, and subject to the penalties provided in section 1921
16 of this act for the controller refusing or neglecting to make
17 similar reports.
18 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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