Bill Text: PA SB282 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: In area government and intergovernmental cooperation, providing for agreements with municipal authorities; and further providing for review of agreement by Local Government Commission.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 17-6)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2009-07-20 - Referred to LOCAL GOVERNMENT [SB282 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-SB282-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 284
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
SENATE BILL
No. 282 Session of2009
INTRODUCED BY ORIE, PIPPY, PILEGGI, ALLOWAY, BAKER, BROWNE, BRUBAKER, COSTA, ERICKSON, FOLMER, FONTANA, GORDNER, GREENLEAF, KITCHEN, LOGAN, MUSTO, RAFFERTY, ROBBINS, WAUGH, D. WHITE, M. WHITE, WONDERLING AND BOSCOLA, FEBRUARY 19, 2009
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 19, 2009
AN ACT
Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in area government and
intergovernmental cooperation, providing for agreements with
municipal authorities; and further providing for review of
agreement by Local Government Commission.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Title 53 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
§ 2303.1. Agreements with municipal authorities.
(a) General rule.--One or more local governments in this
Commonwealth, upon the passage of an ordinance containing the
elements set forth under section 2307 (relating to content of
ordinance), and one or more municipal authorities created under
Chapter 56 (relating to municipal authorities) or under the
former act of May 2, 1945 (P.L.382, No.164), known as the
Municipality Authorities Act of 1945, upon the passage of a
resolution containing the elements set forth under section 2307,
may jointly enter into an agreement to cooperate in the exercise
or in the performance of their respective functions, powers or
responsibilities.
(b) Limitations.--An agreement entered into pursuant to this
section shall not do any of the following:
(1) Delegate or transfer the governmental powers or
functions of a local government to a municipal authority,
unless the municipal authority, by law, has been granted the
authority to exercise the governmental powers or functions.
(2) Enlarge or diminish the powers of a municipal
authority beyond those authorized and permitted by law.
(c) Review.--Agreements executed pursuant to this section
need not be submitted to the Local Government Commission for
review.
Section 2. Section 2314 of Title 53 is amended to read:
§ 2314. Review of agreement by Local Government Commission.
Every agreement between a local government and the
Commonwealth, any other state, government of another state or
the Federal Government under the provisions of this subchapter
shall, prior to and as a condition precedent to enactment of an
ordinance, be submitted to the Local Government Commission for
review and recommendation. The commission shall within [60] 90
days of receipt of the agreement determine whether it is in
proper form and compatible with the laws of this Commonwealth.
Failure of the commission to make recommendations within [60] 90
days of receipt of the agreement shall constitute a
recommendation in favor of the agreement.
Section 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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