PRINTER'S NO. 314
No. 290 Session of 1987
INTRODUCED BY LLOYD, TRELLO, CAPPABIANCA, FOX, TIGUE, VROON,
ITKIN, MERRY, BELFANTI, REBER, MRKONIC, SHOWERS, HONAMAN AND
JOHNSON, FEBRUARY 11, 1987
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 11, 1987
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, prescribing court costs
3 for multiple offenses.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 1725.1 of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subsection to read:
8 § 1725.1. Costs.
9 * * *
10 (f) Multiple offenses.--When more than one summary offense
11 is alleged to have been committed by one person arising from the
12 same incident, the matter shall proceed as a single case, and
13 the minor judiciary shall receive only one set of costs
14 regardless of the number of statutes which are alleged to have
15 been violated, but the one set of costs shall be equal to the
16 greatest amount which would have been received for any one of
17 the alleged summary offenses if each offense had proceeded as a
18 separate case.
1 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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