PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 304 PRINTER'S NO. 449
No. 290 Session of 1985
INTRODUCED BY SHAFFER, SINGEL, SCANLON, REIBMAN, FISHER,
HELFRICK, CORMAN, RHOADES, ANDREZESKI AND O'CONNELL,
FEBRUARY 4, 1985
SENATOR FISHER, ENVIRONMENTAL RESOURCES AND ENERGY, AS AMENDED,
FEBRUARY 25, 1985
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," providing for water and
21 sewage line rights-of-way in State parks.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Section 1906-A of the act of April 9, 1929
25 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, is
26 amended by adding a clause CLAUSES to read: <--
1 Section 1906-A. Parks.--The Department of Environmental
2 Resources shall have the power, and its duty shall be:
3 * * *
4 (10) To grant rights-of-way in and through State parks to
5 municipal authorities and political subdivisions of this
6 Commonwealth for the laying of water lines and of lines for the
7 transportation of sewage to sewage lines or sewage treatment
8 facilities on State park land, under such terms and conditions,
9 including the payment of fees, as the department may deem
10 proper, and when it shall appear that the grant of such right-
11 of-way will not so adversely affect the land as to interfere
12 with its usual and orderly administration and that the interests
13 of the Commonwealth or its citizens will be promoted by such
14 grant.
15 (11) TO ISSUE PERMITS UNDER EMERGENCY SITUATIONS, UPON SUCH <--
16 TERMS AND SUBJECT TO SUCH RESTRICTIONS, FEES AND REGULATIONS AS
17 THE DEPARTMENT MAY DEEM PROPER, FOR THE UTILIZATION OF WATER AT
18 A STATE PARK AND FOR CONSTRUCTING, MAINTAINING AND OPERATING
19 LINES OF PIPES UPON AND THROUGH A STATE PARK FOR THE PURPOSE OF
20 CONVEYING WATER THEREFROM, WHEREVER IT SHALL BE IN THE PUBLIC
21 INTEREST TO DO SO.
22 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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