PRINTER'S NO. 756
No. 695 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY BELL, MARCH 23, 2001
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, MARCH 23, 2001
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," increasing the complement
21 of the Pennsylvania State Police.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Section 205(b) of the act of April 9, 1929
25 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929,
26 amended July 11, 1991 (P.L.73, No.12), is amended to read:
27 Section 205. Pennsylvania State Police.--* * *
1 (b) The State Police Force shall consist of such number of
2 officers and men, and shall be organized in such manner, as the
3 Commissioner of Pennsylvania State Police, with the approval of
4 the Governor, shall from time to time determine: Provided,
5 however, That the number of officers and men shall not exceed in
6 the aggregate at any time [three thousand nine hundred and
7 forty] five thousand persons. State policemen, both officers and
8 men, assigned to duty with the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission
9 or assigned to duty as resident State troopers, shall not be
10 counted in determining the total number of officers and men in
11 the State Police Force.
12 * * *
13 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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