PRINTER'S NO. 2328
No. 1889 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY BUNT, McGILL, GRUPPO, FICHTER, L. I. COHEN, NYCE
AND DENT, JUNE 28, 1995
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON VETERANS AFFAIRS AND EMERGENCY
PREPAREDNESS, JUNE 28, 1995
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 35 (Health and Safety) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, further providing for the Pennsylvania
3 Volunteer Loan Assistance Program.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 7317 of Title 35 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 7317. Pennsylvania Volunteer Loan Assistance Program.
9 (a) Creation.--Within the agency there shall be a loan
10 assistance program, which shall be implemented by the
11 Pennsylvania State Fire Commissioner, for volunteer agencies,
12 known as the Pennsylvania Volunteer Loan Assistance Program,
13 which shall make loans to volunteer fire companies, volunteer
14 ambulance services, hazardous materials units, river rescue
15 squads, volunteer diving rescue units and volunteer rescue
16 squads for the purpose of establishing or modernizing facilities
17 to house firefighting apparatus equipment, ambulances and rescue
18 equipment and vehicles, and for purchasing new firefighting
1 apparatus equipment, ambulances, rescue vehicles and protective
2 and communications equipment, and any other accessory equipment
3 necessary for the proper performance of such organizations'
4 duties, as recognized by the community.
5 (b) Transfer.--There are hereby transferred to the agency,
6 to be used, employed and expended in connection with the
7 functions, powers and duties authorized in subsection (a),
8 personnel, contractual obligations, if any, mortgages, liens,
9 encumbrances and any other secured interests, records, files,
10 property, supplies and equipment now being used or held in
11 connection with such functions, powers and duties, and the
12 unexpended balance of appropriations, allocations and other
13 funds available or to be made available for use in connection
14 with such functions, powers and duties, as transmitted by
15 Reorganization Plan No.7 of 1981 (P.L.615).
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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