PRINTER'S NO.  1102

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

SENATE BILL

 

No.

916

Session of

2009

  

  

INTRODUCED BY ERICKSON, EICHELBERGER AND STOUT, JUNE 5, 2009

  

  

REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, JUNE 5, 2009  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), entitled,

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as amended, "An act relating to counties of the second class

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and second class A; amending, revising, consolidating and

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changing the laws relating thereto," further providing for

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required financial reporting; and making editorial changes.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 1920 of the act of July 28, 1953

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(P.L.723, No.230), known as the Second Class County Code,

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amended December 14, 1989 (P.L.631, No.75), is amended to read:

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Section 1920.  Controller's Settlement of Accounts; Report to

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Common Pleas; Publications; Financial Report to Department of

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Community [Affairs] and Economic Development.--The controller

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shall, at the end of each fiscal year, complete the audit,

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settlement and adjustment of the accounts of all county

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officers. He shall, in the month of [May] July in every year,

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make a report, verified by oath or affirmation, to the court of

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common pleas of said county, of all receipts and expenditures of

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the county for the preceding year, in detail, and classified by

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reference to the object thereof, together with a full statement

 


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of the financial conditions of the county. A concise summary of

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this report shall thereupon be published one time in such

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newspapers published in the county as the controller may direct,

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but the aggregate cost thereof shall not exceed four thousand

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dollars ($4,000) in any one year, to be paid for out of the

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county treasury. Such report may also be published in printed

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pamphlets, at the cost of the county, the number and cost of

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such pamphlets to be determined by the controller and the county

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commissioners. The controller shall also, by the first Monday of

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the month of [May] July of the year after the close of the

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fiscal year, make an annual report to the Department of

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Community [Affairs] and Economic Development of the financial

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condition of the county, on forms furnished by the Secretary of

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Community [Affairs] and Economic Development, and subject to the

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penalties provided in section 1921 of this act for the

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controller refusing or neglecting to make similar reports.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect immediately.

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