THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY WHITE, LEVDANSKY, BELFANTI, BRADFORD, BRENNAN, CALTAGIRONE, CONKLIN, FLECK, FREEMAN, GRUCELA, HORNAMAN, KORTZ, LENTZ, MUSTIO, PAYNE, READSHAW, SIPTROTH, SOLOBAY, ROCK AND PASHINSKI, APRIL 13, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON COMMERCE, APRIL 13, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled

"An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the

executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the

Executive Department thereof and the administrative

departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,

including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or

Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or

authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative

departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and

duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative

officers, and of the several administrative departments,

boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the

Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive

and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of

certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and

other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,

and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the

number and compensation of the deputies and all other

assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and

commissions shall be determined," in Department of Community

and Economic Development, further providing for powers and

duties in general.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 2501-C(n) of the act of April 9, 1929

(P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929,

added June 22, 1994 (P.L.351, No.52), is amended to read:

Section 2501-C.  Powers and Duties in General.--The

Department of Community Affairs shall have the power, and its

duties shall be:

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(n)  To make direct grants or provide other forms of

technical assistance to various public safety, recreation,

senior citizen or other community service organizations. In any

case in which an economic and community development program

funded by the Commonwealth, is established for, or gives

priority to joint applications from, two or more volunteer fire

departments, a volunteer fire department that has been formed in

accordance with 53 Pa.C.S. Ch. 23 Subch. A (relating to

intergovernmental cooperation) shall, after the consolidation or

merger, qualify to be given the priority for the economic and

community development program in the same manner as if the

application had been made jointly by the two or more volunteer

fire departments that had merged or consolidated.

Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.