PRINTER'S NO. 1344
No. 1187 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY SEYFERT, ROSS, FAIRCHILD, ORIE, ARGALL, CORRIGAN,
M. COHEN, PESCI, B. SMITH, WILT, NICKOL, McNAUGHTON, ZUG,
HERSHEY, SAYLOR, EGOLF, HERMAN, E. Z. TAYLOR, FORCIER,
ARMSTRONG, McILHATTAN, YOUNGBLOOD, GEIST, PIPPY, HORSEY AND
FLICK, APRIL 12, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES,
APRIL 12, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 24, 1937 (P.L.2017, No.396), entitled
2 "An act creating in each county (except of the first class)
3 as a separate corporation, and in each city of the first and
4 second class as a part of the city government, an institution
5 district for the care and maintenance of certain indigent
6 persons and children; prescribing the powers and duties of
7 county commissioners, county treasurers, city departments of
8 public welfare, the State Department of Welfare and the State
9 Department of Public Assistance in respect thereto;
10 abolishing certain poor districts and terminating the terms
11 of directors, overseers, guardians and managers of the poor
12 and poor district auditors, and providing for the temporary
13 employment of certain of them; providing for the transfer,
14 vesting, sale and disposition of the property of poor
15 districts and the payment of their obligations; imposing
16 certain existing obligations on institution districts and on
17 the Commonwealth; regulating the affairs of poor districts
18 until abolished; revising, amending, changing and
19 consolidating the law relating to the care of the poor; and
20 repealing existing laws," deleting provisions relating to
21 dissolution of independent poor districts.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Article VI of the act of June 24, 1937 (P.L.2017,
25 No.396), known as the County Institution District Law, is
1 repealed.
2 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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