SENATE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 686, 2295, 4097 PRINTER'S NO. 4322
No. 618 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY PITTS, NAILOR, VROON, DEMPSEY, D. W. SNYDER,
REBER, JACKSON, FARGO, SCHEETZ, FLEAGLE, LEVDANSKY, HESS,
WOGAN, FOX, HECKLER, CARLSON, TRELLO, MICOZZIE, BELARDI,
ROBBINS, VEON, CIVERA, PHILLIPS, ITKIN, HALUSKA, MARKOSEK,
NOYE, CAWLEY, JOHNSON, J. L. WRIGHT, GIGLIOTTI, DISTLER,
LAUGHLIN, STUBAN, GRUPPO, OLASZ, CLYMER, BUNT, SERAFINI,
SAURMAN, FLICK, MORRIS, E. Z. TAYLOR, MELIO, McVERRY, DeLUCA,
GEIST, BARLEY, STAIRS, SEMMEL, MERRY, J. H. CLARK, BUSH AND
HERSHEY, MARCH 6, 1989
SENATOR TILGHMAN, APPROPRIATIONS, IN SENATE, RE-REPORTED AS
AMENDED, NOVEMBER 14, 1990
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 resident
21 State troopers.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
1 Section 1. Section 205(b) of the act of April 9, 1929
2 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929,
3 amended December 28, 1972 (P.L.1649, No.349), is amended and the
4 section is amended by adding a subsection to read:
5 Section 205. Pennsylvania State Police.--* * *
6 (b) The State Police Force shall consist of such number of
7 officers and men, and shall be organized in such manner, as the
8 Commissioner of Pennsylvania State Police, with the approval of
9 the Governor, shall from time to time determine: Provided,
10 however, That [during the fiscal year 1971-1972, the number of
11 officers and men shall not exceed in the aggregate at any time,
12 three thousand seven hundred ninety persons, and during the
13 fiscal year 1972-1973 and thereafter,] the number of officers
14 and men shall not exceed in the aggregate at any time three
15 thousand nine hundred and forty persons. State policemen, both
16 officers and men, assigned to duty with the Pennsylvania
17 Turnpike Commission or assigned to duty as resident State
18 troopers, shall not be counted in determining the total number
19 of officers and men in the State Police Force.
20 * * *
21 (g) The Pennsylvania State Police force shall include, but
22 not be limited to, two underwater search teams, one of which
23 shall be in eastern Pennsylvania and one of which shall be in
24 western Pennsylvania.
25 Section 2. Section 712 of the act is amended by adding a
26 subsection to read:
27 Section 712. The Pennsylvania State Police Force.--The
28 various members of the Pennsylvania State Police are hereby
29 authorized and empowered:
30 * * *
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1 (c) To enforce municipal ordinances as well as all other
2 laws, civil and criminal, in municipalities which have
3 contracted for the services of a resident State trooper under
4 section 713. Only the resident State trooper assigned to the
5 municipality shall be empowered as provided in this section.
6 Section 3. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
7 Section 713. Resident State Trooper Program.--(a) The
8 Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police may appoint
9 members of the regular Pennsylvania State Police Force to be
10 resident State troopers, assigned on a regular basis to a
11 municipality or adjacent municipalities which do not have an
12 organized police force, if the municipality or municipalities
13 agree to pay the entire cost of providing the resident State
14 trooper service. Each resident State trooper shall have the same
15 powers and be entitled to the same rights and subject to the
16 same rules and regulations as other members of the State Police
17 Force.
18 (b) In order to implement the resident State trooper
19 program, the Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police is
20 authorized to enter into agreements with boroughs and first and
21 second class townships for the furnishing of police protection
22 by one or more resident State troopers on a contractual basis.
23 The contract price for such services shall be the full direct
24 and indirect costs of providing the police protection as
25 determined by the Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police,
26 and moneys paid for the police services shall be credited to the
27 General Fund and used for the express purpose of financing the
28 services for which the contract price was paid. Fifty additional
29 personnel are hereby authorized to meet the initial staffing
30 requirements of the Pennsylvania State Police resulting from any
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1 agreements executed pursuant to this subsection.
2 (c) The Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police shall
3 promulgate such rules and regulations as may be necessary to
4 implement the resident State trooper program and the contractual
5 agreements authorized by this section. The rules and regulations
6 shall:
7 (1) Allow adjacent municipalities to join together to
8 request the services of and share in the costs of a resident
9 State trooper. If more than one adjacent municipality shall
10 request the services of a single resident State trooper, the
11 Commissioner of the Pennsylvania State Police may determine that
12 the geographic area is too large to be covered by one resident
13 State trooper, and that one or more additional resident State
14 troopers must be assigned in order to provide the geographic
15 area with adequate police protection.
16 (2) Require that, as a prerequisite to applying for the
17 services of a resident State trooper, a municipality or
18 municipalities shall adopt a resolution or ordinance authorizing
19 a contractual arrangement with the Pennsylvania State Police for
20 the payment by the municipality or municipalities of the entire
21 costs incurred in connection with the provision of the services, <--
22 with the Commonwealth being responsible for ten per centum of
23 the costs.
24 (3) Require resident State troopers to remain under the
25 direct control of the Pennsylvania State Police with supervision
26 to be provided by the commanding officer of the field
27 installation having jurisdiction over the municipality or
28 municipalities contracting for the services of the resident
29 State trooper. The commanding officer shall determine the number
30 of supervisors for the resident State troopers assigned to his
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1 field installation. Each resident State trooper shall operate
2 out of his assigned field installation, which shall be his
3 official duty station.
4 (4) Require all resident State troopers to reside within the
5 geographic area served by the field installation having
6 jurisdiction over the municipality or municipalities to which
7 the resident State trooper is assigned.
8 (5) Require that all organizational orders, regulations and
9 directives issued by the Pennsylvania State Police apply with
10 full force to resident State troopers.
11 (6) Require such matters as the geographic area served,
12 hours of duty and type of duties to be arranged by the commander
13 of the field installation in cooperation with the governing body
14 of the municipality or municipalities.
15 (7) Require that an on-duty resident State trooper not leave
16 his assigned municipality or municipalities without the
17 authorization of the commander of the field installation, and
18 require that the commander not remove a resident State trooper
19 from his area of jurisdiction during assigned hours except in
20 cases of extreme emergency, in which case the governing body of
21 the contracting municipality or municipalities shall be
22 notified.
23 (8) Require resident State troopers to be in uniform at all
24 times during assigned working hours, unless authorized by the
25 commander of the field installation to work in civilian attire.
26 (9) Require resident State troopers to enforce all municipal
27 ordinances of the contracting municipality or municipalities, as
28 well as the Vehicle Code and criminal laws of this Commonwealth.
29 (10) Require that all supplies and equipment including
30 vehicles, radios, etc., be obtained by the resident trooper from
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1 the supervising field installation.
2 (D) THE PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION SHALL EXPIRE DECEMBER 31, <--
3 1991.
4 Section 4. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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