PRINTER'S NO. 50
No. 54 Session of 2001
INTRODUCED BY BELL, JANUARY 22, 2001
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, JANUARY 22, 2001
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," further providing for
21 gubernatorial appointments and for powers and duties of the
22 Department of Transportation.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. Section 207.1(c)(2) of the act of April 9, 1929
26 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929,
27 added November 8, 1976 (P.L.1109, No.227), is amended to read:
1 Section 207.1. Gubernatorial Appointments.--* * *
2 (c) The Governor shall nominate in accordance with the
3 provisions of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of
4 Pennsylvania and, by and with the advice and consent of two-
5 thirds of the members elected to the Senate, appoint persons to
6 fill the following positions:
7 * * *
8 (2) Those members which he is authorized to appoint to the
9 Milk Marketing Board, the Pennsylvania Fish and Boat Commission,
10 the Pennsylvania Game Commission, the Pennsylvania Liquor
11 Control Board[,] and the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission
12 [and the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission].
13 * * *
14 Section 2. Section 2002(a) of the act is amended by adding a
15 clause to read:
16 Section 2002. Powers and Duties of the Department.--(a) The
17 Department of Transportation in accord with appropriations made
18 by the General Assembly, and grants of funds from Federal,
19 State, regional, local or private agencies, shall have the
20 power, and its duty shall be:
21 * * *
22 (5.1) To operate, maintain, construct and reconstruct the
23 Pennsylvania Turnpike and related highways under the act of
24 (P.L. , No. ), known as the
25 "Turnpike Transfer Act."
26 * * *
27 Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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