PRINTER'S NO. 135
No. 122 Session of 1977
INTRODUCED BY RHODES AND W. D. HUTCHINSON, FEBRUARY 8, 1977
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 8, 1977
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act relating to counties of the second class
3 and second class A; amending, revising, consolidating and
4 changing the laws relating thereto," further providing for
5 county public defenders to organize a State association and
6 for the payment of expenses thereof.
7 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
8 hereby enacts as follows:
9 Section 1. Section 432, act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723,
10 No.230), known as the "Second Class County Code," clause (1)
11 amended November 23, 1976 (No.238), is amended to read:
12 Section 432. State Associations Authorized.--County officers
13 of the county may join with county officers of other counties of
14 the Commonwealth and organize a State association, as follows:
15 (1) The county commissioners, together with the county
16 solicitor and the chief clerk to the county commissioners and
17 certain officers who are counterpart personnel in counties
18 having a Home Rule Charter or optional form of government;
19 (2) The county controllers;
20 (3) The sheriffs;
1 (4) The district attorneys;
2 (5) The probation officers;
3 (6) The registers of wills;
4 (7) The prothonotaries and clerks of courts of quarter
5 sessions;
6 (8) The county treasurers;
7 (9) The records of deeds;
8 (10) The directors of veterans' affairs;
9 (11) Public defenders.
10 Section 2. Section 434 and subsection (b) of section 436 of
11 the act, amended June 30, 1969 (P.L.101, No.38), are amended to
12 read:
13 Section 434. Deputies and Solicitors May Attend Annual
14 Meetings.--The deputy controller, the deputy sheriff, the deputy
15 register of wills, the deputy treasurer, the deputy
16 prothonotary, the deputy clerk of courts, the deputy recorder of
17 deeds, the deputy clerk of orphans' court, the first assistant
18 district attorney, the assistant public defenders, and the chief
19 deputy coroner, with the approval of his principal and the
20 solicitor for each office may attend the annual meetings of his
21 respective associations, either together with the controller,
22 sheriff, register of wills, prothonotary, clerk of courts,
23 recorder of deeds, district attorney, public defender, coroner
24 or treasurer, as the case may be, or in his place.
25 Section 436. Other Meeting Expenses Paid by County.--* * *
26 (b) In the case of the county controllers, the sheriffs, the
27 register of wills, the county commissioners, county solicitor
28 and chief clerk, the prothonotaries and clerks of courts of
29 [quarter sessions] common pleas, the county treasurers, the
30 recorders of deeds, the public defenders and the directors of
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1 veterans' affairs, the portion of the annual expenses charged to
2 each county shall not exceed one hundred dollars ($100); and in
3 the case of the probation officers, an annual membership
4 subscription not exceeding six dollars and twenty-five cents
5 ($6.25) per member shall be paid by the county, and shall be in
6 lieu of the expenses hereinbefore in this section provided for
7 other county officers.
8 Section 3. This act shall take effect immediately.
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