PRINTER'S NO. 717

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

No. 657 Session of 1987

        INTRODUCED BY PERZEL, KENNEY, CAWLEY, TRELLO AND WESTON,
           MARCH 9, 1987

        REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, MARCH 9, 1987

                                     AN ACT

     1  Amending the act of June 25, 1919 (P.L.581, No.274), entitled
     2     "An act for the better government of cities of the first
     3     class of this Commonwealth," limiting the rate of real
     4     property taxation.

     5     The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     6  hereby enacts as follows:
     7     Section 1.  Section 3 of Article XVII of the act of June 25,
     8  1919 (P.L.581, No.274), referred to as the First Class City
     9  Government Law, is amended to read:
    10                           ARTICLE XVII.
    11                              Finance.
    12     * * *
    13     Section 3.  On or before the same date, the council shall
    14  levy and fix a tax rate for the ensuing year, which, together
    15  with the estimated receipts from all other sources except
    16  borrowed money, shall yield sufficient receipts to meet the
    17  liabilities of the city of every kind (except liabilities to be
    18  paid out of loan funds) for the ensuing year and the current

     1  expenditures, not including expenditures from loan funds, as
     2  fixed and determined by the council in said ordinance. The
     3  receipts from taxation shall be estimated by deducting, from the
     4  gross amount which would be yielded at the rate fixed, the
     5  average proportion of the amount uncollected at the end of each
     6  year during the preceding three years. If the council shall fail
     7  to fix a tax rate on or before the fifteenth day of December of
     8  any year, the rate for the current year shall be the rate for
     9  the ensuing year as if that rate had been fixed by the council
    10  in accordance with this act, and the amount of expenditures,
    11  other than from loan funds, shall be fixed and determined by the
    12  council so as to come within the estimated receipts from sources
    13  other than loans. Notwithstanding any provision of this section,
    14  the tax rate in any year shall not exceed seventy-four and
    15  three-quarter mills.
    16     * * *
    17     Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.









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