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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| HOUSE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY REICHLEY, CALTAGIRONE, CLYMER, GEIST, GODSHALL, MUSTIO, O'NEILL, READSHAW, SABATINA AND VULAKOVICH, MARCH 17, 2011 |
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| REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 17, 2011 |
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| AN ACT |
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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," providing for contracting |
21 | for State trooper services. |
22 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
23 | hereby enacts as follows: |
24 | Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known |
25 | as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a |
26 | section to read: |
27 | Section 713.1. State Trooper Services Contractual Program.-- |
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1 | (a) A municipality or adjacent municipalities which, on the |
2 | effective date of this section, do not have an organized police |
3 | force may enter into an agreement with the Pennsylvania State |
4 | Police for State trooper service. The municipality or |
5 | municipalities must agree to pay for the State trooper service. |
6 | (b) In order to implement this section the Commissioner of |
7 | the Pennsylvania State Police is authorized to enter into |
8 | agreements with boroughs and townships for the furnishing of |
9 | police protection by one or more State troopers on a contractual |
10 | basis. The contract price for the services shall include only |
11 | the labor and benefit costs of providing police protection. |
12 | Moneys paid for the police services shall be credited to a |
13 | restricted account and used for the express purpose of financing |
14 | the services for which the contract price was paid. State |
15 | troopers assigned to this program shall not be included in |
16 | determining the Pennsylvania State Police's total number of |
17 | officers and enlisted members. |
18 | (c) The Pennsylvania State Police shall promulgate rules and |
19 | regulations as may be necessary to implement this program and |
20 | the contractual agreements authorized by this section. The rules |
21 | and regulations shall: |
22 | (1) Require that as a prerequisite to contracting for the |
23 | services of a State trooper, a municipality or municipalities |
24 | shall adopt a resolution or ordinance authorizing the |
25 | contractual arrangement with the Pennsylvania State Police for |
26 | the payment by the municipality or municipalities of the costs |
27 | set pursuant to this section incurred in connection with the |
28 | provision of these services. |
29 | (2) Require State troopers to remain under the direct |
30 | control of the Pennsylvania State Police with supervision to be |
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1 | provided by the commanding officer of the field installation |
2 | having jurisdiction over the municipality or municipalities |
3 | contracting for the State trooper services. |
4 | (3) Require that all organizational orders, regulations and |
5 | directives by the Pennsylvania State Police apply with full |
6 | force to these assigned troopers. |
7 | (4) Require that the commander of the field installation |
8 | shall not remove a State trooper assigned pursuant to this |
9 | contractual program from his area of jurisdiction during |
10 | assigned hours except in cases of extreme emergency, in which |
11 | case the governing body of the contracting municipality or |
12 | municipalities shall be notified. |
13 | (5) Require State troopers to enforce 75 Pa.C.S (relating to |
14 | vehicles), criminal laws of this Commonwealth and local |
15 | ordinances relating to public safety pursuant to the agreement |
16 | with the municipality or municipalities. |
17 | Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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