PRINTER'S NO. 2078
No. 1626 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY IRVIS, ITKIN, VROON, DALEY, DEAL, JOHNSON, BLAUM,
CARN, HALUSKA, GALLAGHER, MICHLOVIC, PISTELLA, GODSHALL,
FATTAH, FARGO, TIGUE, JACKSON, ACOSTA, D. R. WRIGHT, TELEK,
KUKOVICH, PRATT, RYBAK, DAWIDA AND RUDY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1985
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, SEPTEMBER 19, 1985
AN ACT
1 Repealing certain acts relating to gypsies.
2 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
3 hereby enacts as follows:
4 Section 1. Repeals.
5 The following acts are repealed:
6 The act of May 6, 1909 (P.L.445, No.247), entitled "An act to
7 require roving bands of nomads, commonly called gypsies, and the
8 persons composing such bands, who have no permanent place of
9 abode in this Commonwealth, to take out a license to pitch or
10 settle their encampments, or carry on their transactions or
11 practice their craft, within the limits of any county of this
12 State, fixing the amount of such license, and prescribing the
13 penalty for violation of the same.
14 The act of April 7, 1927 (P.L.144, No.114), entitled "An act
15 authorizing boards of health to require roving bands, or bands
16 of nomads, commonly called gypsies, declared to be nuisances or
1 menaces to health, to leave municipalities, and providing
2 penalties.
3 Section 2. Effective date.
4 This act shall take effect immediately.
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