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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| SENATE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY BLAKE, SOLOBAY, ORIE, FONTANA, WAUGH, BREWSTER AND RAFFERTY, JANUARY 31, 2012 |
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| REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JANUARY 31, 2012 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending Title 61 (Prisons and Parole) of the Pennsylvania |
2 | Consolidated Statutes, further providing for establishment. |
3 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
4 | hereby enacts as follows: |
5 | Section 1. Section 1731 of Title 61 of the Pennsylvania |
6 | Consolidated Statutes is amended to read: |
7 | § 1731. Establishment. |
8 | (a) General rule.-- |
9 | (1) In counties of the third, fourth and fifth class, |
10 | the persons now holding the following offices and their |
11 | successors in each county of the third, fourth or fifth class |
12 | shall compose a board to be known as the board of inspectors |
13 | of the jail or county prison. |
14 | (2) The following persons shall be members of the board: |
15 | (i) The president judge of the court of common pleas |
16 | or a judge designated by him. |
17 | (ii) [The district attorney] (Reserved). |
18 | (iii) The sheriff. |
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1 | (iv) The controller. |
2 | (v) The county commissioners. |
3 | (2.1) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (1), |
4 | the district attorney in a county of the third, fourth or |
5 | fifth class shall have the option of being a member of the |
6 | board. |
7 | (3) The board and the officers appointed by it shall |
8 | provide for the safekeeping, discipline and employment of |
9 | inmates and the government and management of the correctional |
10 | institution. |
11 | (4) The duty of the sheriff relating to the safekeeping |
12 | of inmates shall cease and determine on their committal to |
13 | the correctional institution, and the sheriff may not be |
14 | furnished a residence in the correctional institution. |
15 | (5) Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph (2), the |
16 | president judge may choose at any time to delete the judge |
17 | position from the board by so notifying the chairperson and |
18 | secretary of the board in writing. The decision to delete |
19 | this position shall remain in effect for as long as the |
20 | president judge making the decision shall remain as president |
21 | judge and thereafter until rescinded in like fashion by a |
22 | successor. |
23 | (b) Counties that may elect to be subject to subchapter.-- |
24 | Any county of the sixth, seventh or eighth class may elect by |
25 | resolution of the county commissioners to be governed by the |
26 | provisions of this subchapter. |
27 | Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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