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PRINTER'S NO. 2175
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1629
Session of
2017
INTRODUCED BY FREEMAN, SCHLOSSBERG, SCHWEYER, MURT, SIMMONS AND
NEILSON, JUNE 28, 2017
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, JUNE 28, 2017
AN ACT
Amending the act of May 28, 1937 (P.L.955, No.265), entitled, as
amended, "An act to promote public health, safety, morals,
and welfare by declaring the necessity of creating public
bodies, corporate and politic, to be known as housing
authorities to engage in slum clearance, and to undertake
projects, to provide dwelling accommodations for persons of
low income; providing for the organization of such housing
authorities; defining their powers and duties; providing for
the exercise of such powers, including the acquisition of
property by purchase, gift or eminent domain, the renting and
selling of property, and including borrowing money, issuing
bonds, and other obligations, and giving security therefor;
prescribing the remedies of obligees of housing authorities;
authorizing housing authorities to enter into agreements,
including agreements with the United States, the
Commonwealth, and political subdivisions and municipalities
thereof; defining the application of zoning, sanitary, and
building laws and regulations to projects built or maintained
by such housing authorities; exempting the property and
securities of such housing authorities from taxation; and
imposing duties and conferring powers upon the State Planning
Board, and certain other State officers and departments,"
further providing for powers of authority.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 10(ee) of the act of May 28, 1937
(P.L.955, No.265), referred to as the Housing Authorities Law,
is amended to read:
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Section 10. Powers of an Authority.--An Authority shall
constitute a public body, corporate and politic, exercising
public powers of the Commonwealth as an agency thereof, which
powers shall include all powers necessary or appropriate to
carry out and effectuate the purpose and provisions of this act,
including the following powers, in addition to others herein
granted:
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(ee) In a county of the second class and [city] cities of
the second [class] and third classes, to appoint police officers
who shall exercise the same powers that may be exercised under
authority of law or ordinance by the police of the
municipalities wherein the Authority is located, including, but
not limited to, those powers conferred pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S.
Ch. 89 Subch. D (relating to municipal police jurisdiction) with
respect to the property and enforcing order on and adjacent to
the grounds and buildings of the Authority: Provided, That said
police officers complete the same course of instruction as is
required for municipal police officers by 53 Pa.C.S. Ch. 21
Subch. D (relating to municipal police education and training)
and receive certification by the Municipal Police Officers'
Education and Training Commission as having completed the
instruction. Said police officers shall maintain the
certification as a condition of employment as police officers
for the Authority.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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