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Regular Session 1979-1980
Senate Bill 881


Short Title:
An Act amending the act of January 22, 1968 (P. L. 42, No. 8), entitled, "Pennsylvania Urban Mass Transportation Law," adding and further providing for definitions and program authorizations, making an editorial change, further providing for project grants, further providing for intergovernmental cooperation, providing for State subsidies, authorizing the creation of a transportation authority to function in each metropolitan area consisting of any county of the first class and all nearby counties within a radius of twenty miles of any such first class county, as a body corporate and politic for the purpose of establishing an integrated mass transportation system with all pertinent powers including, but not limited to, leasing, acquiring, owning, operating and maintaining a system for, or otherwise providing for, the transportation of persons, authorizing the borrowing of money and issuance of bonds therefor, conferring the right of eminent domain on the authority; altering the jurisdiction of the Public Utility Commission, authorizing the acceptance of grants from Federal, State and local governments, limiting actions against the authority and exempting it from taxation, authorizing counties and municipalities to enter into compacts for the financing of each authority and to make appropriations in accordance with such compacts, creating a citizen advisory committee conferring exclusive jurisdiction upon certain courts with respect to matters relating to such authority, empowering each authority to function outside of the metropolitan area under certain terms and conditions, imposing a requirement to submit a reorganization plan, providing sanctions for failure to submit a reorganization plan and making appropriations, and making certain transfers and repeals.
Prime Sponsor:
Last Action:
(Item Veto)
Printer's No.:
Printer's No. Text (H) Amendments (S) Amendments (H) Fiscal Note (S) Fiscal Note Actuarial Note
1915*
1650
1605
1583
1005
* denotes current Printer's Number