Bill Text: PA SB129 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: In officers serving process and enforcing orders, providing for municipal police.
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 6-1)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2013-01-14 - Referred to JUDICIARY [SB129 Detail]
Download: Pennsylvania-2013-SB129-Introduced.html
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THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. | 129 | Session of 2013 |
INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, ERICKSON, VULAKOVICH, GORDNER, SCHWANK, RAFFERTY AND ALLOWAY, JANUARY 14, 2013
REFERRED TO JUDICIARY, JANUARY 14, 2013
AN ACT
1Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in officers serving
3process and enforcing orders, providing for municipal police.
4The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5hereby enacts as follows:
6Section 1. Chapter 29 of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
7Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subchapter to read:
8SUBCHAPTER D
9MUNICIPAL POLICE
10Sec.
112961. Municipal police.
12§ 2961. Municipal police.
13(a) Fee.--If a municipal police officer executes one or more
14warrants or effectuates the payment of fines and costs by
15attempting to execute one or more warrants, the fee for such
16service shall be $35 per defendant.
17(b) Payment.--The fee shall be borne by the defendant. The
18fee shall be collected as provided by law for court costs. Once
1collected, the fee shall be remitted to the municipality which
2provided the service or to the Commonwealth if no municipal
3police department exists for the municipality.
4(c) Definition.--As used in this section, the term
5"municipal police officer" shall include the Pennsylvania State
6Police where no municipal police department exists.
7Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
