HOUSE AMENDED
PRIOR PRINTER'S NOS. 918, 1471 PRINTER'S NO. 1530
No. 845 Session of 1993
INTRODUCED BY BELAN, SCANLON AND BODACK, MARCH 30, 1993
AS REPORTED FROM COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, HOUSE OF
REPRESENTATIVES, AS AMENDED, JUNE 23, 1993
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 1, 1981 (P.L.191, No.57), entitled, as
2 amended, "An act establishing certain fees to be charged by
3 registers of wills in counties of the fifth, sixth, seventh
4 and eighth class and providing for fees in counties of the
5 second through eighth class," providing for the establishment
6 and modification of fees; and providing for the imposition of
7 an additional fee.
8 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
9 hereby enacts as follows:
10 Section 1. Section 2.1 of the act of July 1, 1981 (P.L.191,
11 No.57), referred to as the Register of Wills Fee Law, added July
12 10, 1990 (P.L.355, No.82), is amended to read:
13 Section 2.1. In counties of the second, second A, third,
14 fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth classes on or after the
15 effective date of this act, the register of wills may establish,
16 increase, decrease, modify or eliminate fees and charges with
17 the approval of the President Judge [within 60 days of the
18 effective date of this section] AND A MAJORITY OF THE COUNTY <--
19 COMMISSIONERS. Thereafter, such fees and charges shall [not] be
1 established, increased, decreased, modified or eliminated
2 [except by an act of the General Assembly] as determined by the
3 register of wills and, the president judge AND A MAJORITY OF THE <--
4 COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
5 Section 2. The act is amended by adding a section to read:
6 Section 2.2. An additional fee may be charged and collected
7 by the register of wills of a county of the second class for the
8 initiation of any action or legal proceeding which is filed with
9 the office of the register of wills. The additional fee shall be
10 deposited into a special register of wills computer fund
11 established in each county of the second class. Moneys in the
12 special fund shall be used by the register of wills, with the
13 approval of the president judge, solely for the purposes of
14 computerization and document reproduction for the office of the
15 register of wills.
16 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 30 days.
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