PRINTER'S NO. 3896
No. 2915 Session of 1980
INTRODUCED BY LEHR, GEESEY AND DORR, SEPTEMBER 17, 1980
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SEPTEMBER 17, 1980
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of May 9, 1949 (P.L.927, No.261), entitled, as
2 amended, "An act fixing and regulating the fees, commissions,
3 mileage and other costs chargeable by the sheriff in counties
4 of the second, second A, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh
5 and eighth classes for their official acts and the services
6 of their deputies, watchmen, appraisers and other agents;
7 requiring prepayment of same, unless secured or chargeable to
8 the county, and delivery of itemized receipts therefor;
9 requiring certain payments by the county, including the
10 compensation of special deputies; providing for the taxation
11 and collection of fees, commissions, mileage and other costs;
12 requiring salaried sheriffs to account to the county for
13 certain fees and commissions collected; and repealing
14 inconsistent laws, general, special or local," changing the
15 fee for compensation for deputy sheriffs.
16 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
17 hereby enacts as follows:
18 Section 1. Subsection (l) of section 1, act of May 9, 1949
19 (P.L.927, No.261), referred to as the Sheriff Fee Law of 1949,
20 amended April 28, 1978 (P.L.99, No.45), is amended to read:
21 Section 1. In all counties of the second, second A, third,
22 fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth classes, the fees and
23 costs, including commissions and mileage, to be charged and
24 received by the sheriff from persons or counties requiring their
1 services shall be as follows:
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3 (l) For services performed in his capacity as a conservator
4 of the peace or police officer, in suppressing riots, mobs or
5 insurrections, and when discharging any duty requiring the
6 summoning of a posse comitatus or special deputy sheriffs, the
7 sheriff shall receive per diem compensation at the rate of
8 thirty dollars in any county for eight hours' service, together
9 with the mileage and necessary expenses, including subsistence
10 for himself and those under him, to be paid by the county.
11 For each special deputy appointed by any sheriff, in case of
12 any emergency, to assist him in executing any civil or criminal
13 process or court order, or preserving the peace, such sheriff
14 may charge and shall receive from the county compensation for
15 such deputy, at the rate of [three dollars seventy-five cents]
16 five dollars in any county for one hour's service, in addition
17 to the expenses incurred for the transportation and subsistence
18 of such deputy while rendering such service.
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20 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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