16 Pa.C.S. § 17509 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 175 / Section 17509
Hotel room rental tax in second class and second class A counties.
Status: in_force

(a) Imposition of excise tax.--The following shall apply:

(1) The county commissioners in each county of the second class are authorized to impose an excise tax at 5% on the consideration received by each operator of a hotel within the county from each transaction of renting a room or rooms to accommodate transients.

(2) The county commissioners in each county of the second class A are authorized to impose an excise tax not to exceed 5% on the consideration received by each operator of a hotel within the county from each transaction of renting a room or rooms to accommodate transients.

(3) The tax shall be collected by the operator from the patron of the room and paid over to the county as provided in this section.

(b) Collection, deposit and distribution for county of the second class.--The treasurer of each county of the second class electing to impose the tax authorized under this section is directed to collect the tax and to deposit the revenue received from the tax in a special fund. The revenues shall be distributed by the county commissioners as follows:

(1) Except as set forth in paragraph (5), two-fifths of the revenue received by the county from the excise tax shall be distributed to a tourist promotion agency pursuant to section 2199.14 of the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), known as the Second Class County Code.

(2) Except as set forth in paragraph (5), one-third of the tax collected by hotels within a municipality where a convention center or exhibition hall is located, less the cost of collecting the tax shall, at the request of that municipality, be returned to that municipality for deposit in that municipality's special fund established solely for purposes of paying for promotional programs implemented by a nonprofit organization which are designed to stimulate and increase the volume of conventions and visitors within the

municipality or as provided in paragraph (7), subject to the following requirements:

(i) An audited report on the income and expenditures incurred by the municipality receiving funds from the excise tax on hotel room rentals shall be made annually to the county.

(ii) The members of the board of directors or other governing body of the nonprofit organization utilized by the municipality to provide the promotional programs shall be appointed by the governing body of the municipality.

(3) Except as set forth in paragraph (5), a 5% fee shall be paid to the county for collecting the tax.

(4) Except as set forth in paragraph (5), all remaining revenue from the tax received by the county, after paying the amounts set forth in paragraphs (1), (2) and (3), shall be used for operational and maintenance expenditures of the convention center or exhibition hall as provided in subsection (d) and for regional tourist promotion activities.

(5) Subject to paragraph (6), if bonds are issued by the public authority to provide permanent financing or refinancing of the expansion of and capital improvements to the convention center or exhibition hall, the revenue received from the tax and deposited in the special fund shall not be distributed as set forth in paragraphs (1), (2), (3) and (4) but shall be distributed by the county commissioners in the order of priority as follows:

(i) First, to the payment of all amounts set forth in paragraph (2).

(ii) Second:

(A) to the trustee for the bonds in accordance with the provisions of the indenture pursuant to which the bonds are issued, to be used for the payment of debt service on the bonds; and

(B) to the payment of all amounts set forth in paragraph (3):

(I) in full; or (II) if the revenues are insufficient to make the payment in full, pro rata.

(iii) Third, to the payment of all amounts set forth in paragraph (1).

(iv) Fourth, as set forth in paragraph (4).

(6) Paragraph (5) shall not apply to bonds issued subsequent to the permanent financing for purposes of completion or subsequent expansions or capital improvements.

(7) If a convention center or exhibition hall discontinues operation in a municipality in which a convention center or exhibition hall is located, the municipality shall continue to collect and receive the tax, which shall be deposited by the municipality and used for the purposes as provided in paragraph (2).

(c) Collection and deposit for county of second class A.--The treasurer of each county of the second class A electing to impose the tax authorized under this section is directed to collect the tax and to deposit the revenue in a special fund established solely for purposes of travel and tourism promotion and advertising related to travel and tourism promotion. The treasurer is authorized to establish rules and regulations concerning the collection of the tax.

(d) Limitation on use of fund for counties of the second class.--The following shall apply:

(1) In counties of the second class, expenditures from the fund established under subsection (b) shall be used for all purposes which a public authority may determine to be reasonably necessary to the support, operation and maintenance of a convention center or exhibition hall, including the following:

(i) Advertising and publicizing tourist attractions in the area served by the recognized tourist promotion agency.

(ii) Promoting and otherwise encouraging the use of the facilities in the area served by the recognized tourist promotion agency by the public as a whole.

(iii) Promoting and attracting conventions, exhibitions and other functions to utilize facilities in the area served by the recognized tourist promotion agency.

(iv) Precompletion advertising and publicizing of any convention center or exhibition hall.

(v) Promoting and attracting conventions, exhibitions and other functions to utilize the convention center or exhibition hall.

(vi) Promoting and otherwise encouraging the use of the premises by the public as a whole or any segment of the public.

(vii) Operating, furnishing and otherwise maintaining and equipping the premises and realty appurtenant to the premises.

(viii) Furnishing and equipping the building and grounds.

(2) It is the intention of this subsection that the receipts from any tax imposed under this section after payment of the distributions under subsection (b)(1), (2),

(3), (4) and (5) be used in the county to offset the entire operating deficit, if any, of any convention center or exhibition hall, including equally, shares of any cooperating political subdivision or agency of government incurred pursuant to any agreement. The operating deficit shall be determined by the public authority which is the designated operating agency of the convention center or exhibition hall.

(e) Limitation on use of fund for counties of second class A.--The following shall apply:

(1) In counties of the second class A, expenditures from the fund established under subsection (c) shall be annually appropriated by the county commissioners for tourist promotion activities, to be executed by the recognized tourist promotion agency for the following:

(i) Marketing the area served by the recognized tourist promotion agency as a leisure travel destination.

(ii) Marketing the area served by the recognized tourist promotion agency as a convention, business or meeting travel destination.

(iii) Marketing the area served by the recognized tourist promotion agency to the public as a whole for use of its tourist and convention facilities.

(iv) Using all appropriate marketing tools to accomplish these purposes, including advertising, publicity, publications, direct marketing, sales, technology and participation in industry trade shows that attract tourists or travelers to the area served by the recognized tourist promotion agency.

(v) Programs, expenditures or grants that directly and substantially relate to tourism or a business,

convention or meeting travel destination within a county of the second class A, that augment and do not compete with private sector tourism or travel efforts and that improve and expand a county of the second class A as a destination market as deemed necessary by the recognized tourist promotion agency. The following shall apply to grants awarded under this subparagraph:

(A) Grants shall have a cash or in-kind local match of at least 25%.

(B) Grants may not be used for signage that promotes a specific private entity on the situs of the entity, except where the signage carries the logo of a recognized tourist promotion agency.

(vi) Any other tourism or travel marketing or promotion program, expenditure or project that does not compete with private sector tourism or travel efforts as deemed necessary by the recognized tourist promotion agency.

(2) For the purposes of defraying the costs associated with the collection of the tax imposed under this section and otherwise performing their obligations under this section, the county commissioners of a county of the second class A may deduct and retain an administrative fee from the taxes collected under this section. The administrative fee shall be established by the county of the second class A and shall not exceed 4% of the taxes collected in any taxable year.

(3) As determined by a county of the second class A in consultation with the recognized tourist promotion agency, an audited report or financial statement of the income and expenditures incurred by a recognized tourist promotion agency receiving revenue from the tax authorized under this section shall be submitted annually by the recognized tourist promotion agency to the county commissioners.

(4) A penalty of 1.5% per month shall be imposed upon the operator of a hotel in a county of the second class A for failure to timely collect and remit the tax authorized by this section. In addition to other remedies available for collection of debts, a county of the second class A may file a lien upon the hotel in the name of the county and for the use of the county as provided by law.

(f) Duration of section.--The following shall apply:

(1) The provisions of this section relating to counties of the second class shall remain in force from year to year. The following apply:

(i) Revenue in excess of amounts needed to pay the distributions under subsection (b)(1), (2), (3) and (4) and to offset operating deficits under subsections (b)(3) and (d) shall be determined by the public authority and may be accumulated.

(ii) At the discretion of the cooperating political subdivisions and the public authority, any revenue may be used to:

(A) provide part or all of an annual payment to be paid by a county or a political subdivision under an agreement with a public authority created under the act of July 29, 1953 (P.L.1034, No.270), known as the Public Auditorium Authorities Law, which has been designated as the operating agency for a convention center or exhibition hall; or

(B) effect necessary expansion or further capital improvements.

(2) The provisions of this section relating to counties of the second class A shall remain in force and effect for three years from February 14, 1986, and may be continued thereafter by ordinance or resolution of the county commissioners of the respective counties.

(g) Concurrent tax years.--Each taxable year for a tax imposed under this section shall run concurrently with the calendar year.

(h) Definitions.--The following words and phrases when used in this section shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Cabin." A permanent structure with beds and running water that is located on a campground on State land or private property and is available to provide overnight lodging for consideration to persons seeking temporary accommodations. The term does not include a yurt or walled tent.

"Consideration." Receipts, fees, charges, rentals, leases, cash, credits, property or other payment received by operators in exchange for or in consideration of the use or occupancy by a transient of a room in a hotel for a temporary period.

"Convention center or exhibition hall." A building or series of buildings:

(1) at least one of which contains a minimum of 75,000 gross square feet of exhibition space for shows and conventions;

(2) which are not used for the retail sale of merchandise or part of any shopping center, mall or other retail center; and

(3) a major function of which is to house meetings, exhibitions, shows, conventions, assemblies, convocations and similar gatherings. The term includes land appurtenant to the building or buildings.

"Cooperating political subdivision or agency of government." A city or public authority located in a county:

(1) within the boundaries of which a convention center or exhibition hall is planned or constructed; and

(2) which shares with the county duties, obligations or privileges with respect to that convention center.

"Hotel." A hotel, motel, inn, guest house, rooming house, bed and breakfast, homestead or other structure which holds itself out by any means, including advertising, license, registration with an innkeepers' group, convention listing association, travel publication or similar association or with a government agency, as being available to provide overnight lodging for consideration to persons seeking temporary accommodation; any place which advertises to the public at large or any segment thereof that it will provide beds, sanitary facilities or other space for a temporary period to members of the public at large; any place recognized as a hostelry or any cabin. The term does not include any of the following:

(1) A charitable institution.

(2) A portion of a facility that is devoted to persons who have an established permanent residence.

(3) A college or university student residence hall currently occupied by students enrolled in a degree program.

(4) An educational or religious institution camp for children, including a camp registered under the act of November 10, 1959 (P.L.1400, No.497), entitled "An act providing for the annual registration of organized camps for children, youth and adults; defining the duties of the Department of Health of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; and prescribing penalties."

(5) A hospital.

(6) A nursing home.

(7) Part of a campground that is not a cabin.

"Municipality." Notwithstanding 53 Pa.C.S. § 8401 (relating to definitions), a township or borough or a home rule municipality which was formerly a township or borough.

"Occupancy." The use or possession or the right to the use or possession by any person other than a permanent resident of a room in a hotel for any purpose or the right to the use or possession of the furnishings or to the services accompanying the use and possession of the room.

"Operating deficit." The excess of expenses over receipts from the operation and management of a convention center or exhibition hall.

"Operator." Any individual, partnership, nonprofit or profit-making association or corporation or other person or group of persons that maintain, operate, manage, own, have custody of or otherwise possess the right to rent or lease overnight accommodations in a hotel to the public for consideration.

"Patron." A person that pays the consideration for the occupancy of a room in a hotel.

"Permanent resident." An individual who has occupied or has the right to occupancy of a room in a hotel as a patron or otherwise for a period exceeding 30 consecutive days.

"Recognized tourist promotion agency." The nonprofit corporation, organization, association or agency which is engaged in planning and promoting programs designed to stimulate and increase the volume of tourist, visitor and vacation business within a county and certified by the county pursuant to the act of July 4, 2008 (P.L.621, No.50), known as the Tourism Promotion Act.

"Regional tourist promotion activities." Services, activities, facilities and events which result in a significant number of nonresidents visiting a county of the second class for recreational, cultural or educational purposes.

"Room." A space in a hotel set aside for use and occupancy by patrons, or otherwise, for consideration, having at least one bed or other sleeping accommodation.

"Substantial completion." Construction which is sufficiently completed in accordance with contract documents and certified by the convention center authority's architect or engineer, as modified by change orders so that:

(1) the main convention area can be used, occupied or operated for its intended use; and

(2) at least 90% of the work on the main convention or exhibition area is complete.

"Temporary." A period of time not exceeding 30 consecutive days.

"Transaction." The activity involving the obtaining by a transient or patron of the use or occupancy of a hotel room from which consideration emanates to the operator under an express or an implied contract.

"Transient." An individual who obtains accommodation in any hotel for himself or herself by means of registering at the facility for the temporary occupancy of any room for the personal use of that individual by paying to the operator of the facility a fee in consideration for the accommodation. Cross References. Section 17509 is referred to in section 102 of this title.

APPENDIX TO TITLE 16 COUNTIES ------- Supplementary Provisions of Amendatory Statutes ------- 2024, MAY 8, P.L.50, NO.14
16 Pa.C.S. § 15510 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 155 / Section 15510
Interment of spouses of deceased servicepersons.
Status: in_force

(a) General rule.--Upon application and proof, the county shall contribute at least $75 towards the funeral expenses of a spouse of a deceased serviceperson who, at the time of death, had a legal residence in the county, regardless of if the individual died or is interred in the county.

(b) Limitation.--The county may not contribute money toward the funeral expenses of a spouse of a deceased serviceperson who had remarried after the death of the deceased serviceperson.

(c) Uniform contribution.--In each case, application for the contribution shall be made within one year after the date of the death of the spouse. All contributions made under this section shall be uniform as to eligible spouses within the same calendar year. Cross References. Section 15510 is referred to in section 15511 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14301 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 143 / Section 14301
District attorney, qualifications, eligibility and compensation.
Status: in_force

(a) Qualifications.--The district attorney must meet all of the following qualifications:

(1) Be a resident of the county.

(2) Be at least 25 years of age.

(3) Be a citizen of the United States.

(4) Have been admitted to practice as an attorney before the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania for at least one year before taking the oath of office and continually hold an active law license during the period when the individual is in office.

(5) Have resided in the county for which the district attorney is elected or appointed for one year prior to the election or appointment.

(b) Suspension and disbarment.--The following shall apply:

(1) If a district attorney is disbarred, the office of the district attorney shall be vacant and shall be filled as follows:

(i) Except for a county of the first or second class, as provided under section 14304 (relating to filling of vacancies).

(ii) For a county of the second class, as provided under section 1404 of the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), known as the Second Class County Code.

(iii) For a county of the first class, as provided under section 3 of the act of May 3, 1850 (P.L.654, No.385), entitled "An act providing for the election of district attorneys."

(2) Notwithstanding any other law applicable to a class of county to the contrary, if a district attorney's law license is suspended, the office of district attorney shall not be vacant but the district attorney shall be suspended from the office until the law license of the district attorney is reinstated or the expiration of the term of the district attorney, whichever is sooner. The first assistant district attorney, if willing, qualified and able, shall act as the district attorney during the time period that the district attorney's law license is suspended. If the first assistant district attorney is unwilling, unqualified or unable to serve, the judges of the court of common pleas shall appoint a competent person who satisfies the requirements of this section to act as district attorney.

(c) Eligibility.--A district attorney may not be eligible for a seat in the General Assembly or to any other office under the laws of this Commonwealth and the Constitution of Pennsylvania, except an office or commission under 51 Pa.C.S. (relating to military affairs) in the militia of the Commonwealth, the Pennsylvania Guard or the Pennsylvania National Guard, during the district attorney's continuance in office.

(d) Counties of the eighth class.--In counties of the eighth class, the district attorney shall be a full-time position if any of the following apply:

(1) The county commissioners have, by ordinance, fixed the services of the district attorney at full time. An ordinance under this paragraph may not be made between the first day for the circulation of nominating petitions for the office of district attorney and January 1 of the subsequent year.

(2) The president judge of the county court of common pleas orders that the office of district attorney shall be full time. Upon motion of the district attorney, the president judge shall conduct a hearing and shall issue an order whether the office of district attorney shall be full time within 180 days of the filing of the motion. The order may be appealed by the district attorney or the county commissioners in accordance with the Pennsylvania Rules of Appellate Procedure. An order under this paragraph shall take effect 60 days after issuance. An order under this paragraph directing that the office of district attorney be full time shall be made if the president judge of the county court of common pleas finds that two or more of the following factors are present in the county:

(i) The average caseload of felony, misdemeanor and juvenile cases for the past five years exceeds 200 per year.

(ii) The average caseload for homicide cases for the past five years equals or exceeds one per year.

(iii) The county has:

(A) a State correctional facility, juvenile detention facility, youth development center, youth forestry camp, other licensed residential facility serving children and youth or mental health or intellectual and developmental disability facility or institution with a population exceeding 250 individuals; or

(B) more than one facility or institution listed under clause (A) which have an aggregate population exceeding 250 individuals.

(iv) A major controlled substances transportation route passes through the county.

(v) The average number of convictions under 75 Pa.C.S. § 3802 (relating to driving under influence of alcohol or controlled substance) subject to the alcoholic ignition interlock statutory provision requirements exceeds 30 per year.

(vi) The county constitutes a single and separate judicial district.

(e) Change prohibited.--Once the office of district attorney becomes full time, the office may not be changed.

(f) Compensation.--A full-time district attorney shall be compensated at $1,000 lower than the compensation paid to a judge of the court of common pleas in the respective judicial district.

(g) Limitations.--

(1) In a county in which the office of district attorney is full time, the district attorney shall devote full time to the office.

(2) A district attorney may not derive other income as a result of honorariums, profit shares or divisions of income from a firm with which the district attorney was associated prior to election of the district attorney. The limitation under this paragraph may not be construed to preclude payment of fees earned for legal work done prior to, but not concluded until after the district attorney is made full time, or until after being sworn in as a full-time district attorney, whichever is earlier.

(3) The district attorney may not engage in private practice and must be completely disassociated with any firm with which the district attorney was affiliated prior to the earlier of being made full time or being sworn in as a full-time district attorney. The district attorney-elect may not accept any civil or criminal cases after being elected to the office.

(h) Outside practice.--A part-time district attorney may have an outside practice and shall be compensated at 40% of the annual salary payable to a judge of the court of common pleas of the judicial district of the county.

(i) Full time.--Except as provided in subsection (d), an office of district attorney that was part time on January 2, 2012, shall become full time as of that date.

(j) Professional conduct.--

(1) A district attorney shall be subject to the Rules of Professional Conduct and the canons of ethics as applied to judges in the courts of common pleas insofar as the canons

apply to salaries, full-time duties and conflicts of interest.

(2) A complaint by a resident of a county that a full-time district attorney may be in violation of this section shall be made to the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania. If any substantive basis is found that a violation has been committed, the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania shall proceed in the manner prescribed by the rules of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania and make a recommendation for disciplinary action as the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania deems advisable. If the Disciplinary Board of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania deems the violation so grave as to warrant removal from office, the prothonotary of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania shall transmit its findings to the Speaker of the House of Representatives for the action as the House of Representatives deems appropriate under Article VI of the Constitution of Pennsylvania.

(k) Reimbursement.--The Commonwealth shall annually reimburse each county with a full-time district attorney an amount equal to 65% of the district attorney's salary. Cross References. Section 14301 is referred to in sections 102, 14304 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16702 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 167 / Section 16702
Maintenance and repairs.
Status: in_force

Every county bridge under this chapter shall be maintained and kept in repair by the county or counties involved except as may be otherwise provided by agreements between or among the county or counties and other political subdivisions or other persons as to the costs of the maintenance and repairs.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15339 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 153 / Section 15339
County fair associations in counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class.
Status: in_force

The county commissioners in counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class may appropriate annually, out of current revenues, to an incorporated nonprofit agriculture association or a nonprofit county fair association located within the county, for the repair and maintenance of the real estate, buildings and structures within the county used annually by the association for county agriculture fairs and exhibitions, regardless of if the real estate is owned by the county and leased to the association.
16 Pa.C.S. § 13933 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 139 / Section 13933
Anatomical gifts.
Status: in_force

The coroner may order the removal of parts of a decedent's body for donation purposes in accordance with 20 Pa.C.S. Ch. 86 (relating to anatomical gifts).
16 Pa.C.S. § 14952 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 149 / Section 14952
Claims not approved by controller.
Status: in_force

If, upon receipt, the controller does not approve a claim, bill or demand, the controller shall within 15 days forward the claim, bill or demand to the county commissioners, together with notice that the controller has disapproved the claim, bill or demand or is unable to approve the claim, bill or demand and the reasons for the disapproval. The county commissioners shall consider the claim, bill or demand and, if the county commissioners consider that the claim, bill or demand should be paid by the county, the county commissioners shall notify the controller. If the controller continues to refuse approval, no payment shall be made by the county except under an order of court upon a proper issue directing the controller to approve payment.
16 Pa.C.S. § 17339 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 173 / Section 17339
Remedies of obligee of authority.
Status: in_force

An obligee of the authority shall have the right, in addition to all other rights which may be conferred on the obligee, subject only to any contractual restrictions binding upon the obligee:

(1) By mandamus, suit, action or proceeding at law or in equity, to compel the authority and authority members, officers, agents or employees to perform each and every term, provision and covenant contained in any bond or contract of the authority with or for the benefit of the obligee and to require the carrying out of covenants and agreements of the authority and the fulfillment of all duties imposed upon the authority by this subchapter.

(2) By proceeding in equity, to obtain an injunction against any acts or things which may be unlawful or the violation of any of the rights of the obligee.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16930 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 169 / Section 16930
Purchase, location, construction, operation and maintenance authorized.
Status: in_force

(a) County purchase of structures.--The county commissioners may, if deemed expedient, provide for the purchase, location, construction, operation and maintenance of roads, tunnels, subways or underground roads within the county, either wholly or partly within the boundaries of any municipal corporation. A road, tunnel, subway or underground road shall be a county road, tunnel, subway or underground road, and the duty of maintaining and keeping the road in repair shall devolve upon the county. All expenses under this section shall be paid by the county as provided under this subchapter.

(b) Requirements.--This section shall be carried out in accordance with the following sections:

(1) 16931 (relating to contracts or lease for special use of improvements).

(2) 16932 (relating to taking street or other property of municipal corporation). Cross References. Section 16930 is referred to in section 16907 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15329 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 153 / Section 15329
Payment to historical societies.
Status: in_force

(a) Payments.--The county commissioners may pay, out of the county money not otherwise appropriated, a sum of money to a county historical society, qualified under section 15330 (relating to qualification of society), to assist in paying expenses. If a county historical society is comprised of residents of more than one county, the county commissioners of the respective counties may jointly pay the sum in such proportion as the county commissioners shall agree.

(b) Vouchers.--Appropriations may not be renewed until vouchers have been filed with the county commissioners showing that the appropriation for any prior year has been expended under this chapter. Cross References. Section 15329 is referred to in section 15330 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 12507 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 125 / Section 12507
Expenses.
Status: in_force

A county commissioner may receive expenses necessarily incurred and actually paid in the discharge of the county

commissioner's official duties or in the performance of a service, office or duty imposed upon a county commissioner.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15524 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 155 / Section 15524
Director of veterans' affairs.
Status: in_force

(a) Appointment.--The county commissioners shall appoint an eligible individual under 51 Pa.C.S. § 1731(a) (relating to accreditation) to serve as the county's director of veterans' affairs, who shall receive compensation as fixed by the salary board.

(b) Responsibility of director.--A county's director of veterans' affairs shall:

(1) Assist all veterans and their families in securing rights relating to their person, property and care of family under any Federal or State laws.

(2) Assist the county commissioners in administering the provisions of this subchapter which relate to the interment of deceased servicepersons and their surviving spouses and furnishing flagholders and placing headstones on graves.

(3) Compile and maintain war records and records of interment sites of deceased servicepersons in accordance with the provisions of this subchapter.

(4) Perform other duties provided by statute, including the duties required under 51 Pa.C.S. § 1731(c).

(c) Compensation.--For services performed under subsection

(b), the director of veterans' affairs of a county shall be entitled to expenses incurred and additional compensation. Both expenses and compensation shall be subject to the approval of the salary board.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16735 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 167 / Section 16735
Contracts for special use of bridge.
Status: in_force

The county commissioners may enter into a contract or lease with a street railway, telegraph or telephone company or other

public utility, or the successors or assigns of a street railway, telegraph or telephone company or other public utility, desiring to use a county bridge and the approaches of the bridge for other than ordinary public foot or vehicular traffic for the concurrent use of the portion of the public bridge and approaches as will not substantially impair or restrict the public use and enjoyment, upon agreed to terms and conditions, and may charge tolls or rentals for that special use. Contracts or leases entered into under this section may not be entered into for a longer period than 20 years, nor shall any contract or lease be entered into unless approved by the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission or become effective, except in accordance with the provisions of the former act of May 28, 1937 (P.L.1053, No.286), known as the Public Utility Law.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15908 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 159 / Section 15908
Validation of contracts.
Status: in_force

A contract executed prior to July 28, 1953, for counties of the second class A, and August 9, 1955, for counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class, for construction and repair of roadways, runways, buildings and facilities or the purchase thereof within or for use within the limits of land acquired for the establishment and operation of airdromes or landing fields, without first having obtained the approval of the court of quarter sessions or grand jury of a county and entered into as provided for the general business of the county or other political subdivisions jointly interested, are ratified, confirmed, approved and declared lawful contracts.
16 Pa.C.S. § 506 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 5 / Section 506
Report of boundary commission, approval by court and certification of line.
Status: in_force

(a) Report.--The boundary commission shall prepare a written report containing a map or draft showing the courses and distances of the line ascertained and designated by the commission as the existing county line, or if the commission has been directed to fix and determine a new county line, the map or draft shall instead show the courses and distances of the new county line. A map or draft under this subsection shall show the lands through which the line passes and the buildings in close proximity, together with the roads and streams crossed by or near to the line.

(b) Filing.--The report and map, signed by a majority of the members of the boundary commission, shall be filed in the court of common pleas having been given jurisdiction and, if approved by the court, shall be recorded in the records of the court of common pleas having been given jurisdiction.

(c) Notice.--Written notice shall be given by the boundary commission to the affected counties and to the owners of each land that will be affected by the proposed change of the date the report containing the recommendation of the boundary commission will be considered by the court.

(d) Recording.--A copy of the report and approval shall be certified by the prothonotary to the prothonotary of each county affected, where the report and approval shall be recorded in the records. The line ascertained, surveyed, fixed and marked shall, as of the date of the certification, be the boundary line between the counties.

(e) Approval.--The prothonotary, having determined the matter, shall certify the approval of the court on two copies of the report and map filed in the prothonotary's office and shall, within 30 days, transmit a copy by mail to the:

(1) Secretary of Community and Economic Development;

(2) Secretary of Conservation and Natural Resources; and

(3) Secretary of Transportation. Cross References. Section 506 is referred to in section 505 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 13712 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 137 / Section 13712
Construction.
Status: in_force

Nothing contained in section 13706 (relating to deputy sheriff's qualifications) or 13710 (relating to private services, gifts and payments prohibited) shall be construed to prohibit any of the following:

(1) The appointment, employment or compensation by a county in the manner expressly provided by law of any of the following:

(i) Night watchmen.

(ii) Railroad police.

(iii) Bank police.

(iv) Payroll police.

(v) Special policemen to police and protect cemeteries and grounds and buildings open to the public or to enforce laws for the prevention of cruelty to persons or animals.

(vi) Fire police whose only duty shall be to direct traffic to or from fires and maintain order at fires.

(vii) Police or guards employed by nonprofit corporations or organizations.

(2) The payment by an individual, association or corporation of fees or compensation for county police or other peace officers assigned to exhibitions, athletic contests or other recreational activities.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15902 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 159 / Section 15902
Acquisition of land for aeronautical purposes.
Status: in_force

(a) Use of land.--A county may use land within the county and owned by the county determined by the county commissioners to be necessary for an airport.

(b) Appropriation of land.--A county may appropriate for the purposes of an airport lands purchased by the county at any tax sale and not redeemed within the period of redemption, if any, provided by law.

(c) Acquisition of land.--A county may acquire by gift, lease, purchase or condemnation proceedings, land lying within its territorial limits or the territorial limits of any adjoining county which, in the judgment of the county commissioners, may be necessary and desirable for the purpose of establishing and maintaining airports or of enlarging airports, but no land shall be acquired in any adjoining county without the assent of the county commissioners of that county.
16 Pa.C.S. § 17352 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 173 / Section 17352
Hotel room rental tax.
Status: in_force

(a) Imposition.--The county in which the authority's convention centers are located or will be located may impose an excise tax on the consideration received by each operator of a hotel within the market area from each transaction of renting a room or rooms to accommodate transients.

(b) Collection.--The tax shall be collected by the operator from the patron of the room and paid over to the county and shall be known as the Hotel Room Rental Tax.

(c) Rate.--The rate of tax imposed under this section by the county in which the authority's convention centers are located may not exceed 7%.

(d) Distribution of revenue.--Subject to the deduction of the administrative fee authorized by subsection (o), the revenues shall be distributed as follows:

(1) The revenues from the special funds required under subsection (e) attributable to the levy of the first 5% of the tax shall be distributed as follows:

(i) Eighty percent shall be deposited within two working days into the special fund required under subsection (e) for the use of the authority.

(ii) Twenty percent shall be deposited within two working days into the tourist promotion agency fund required under subsection (e) until disbursed under subsection (j).

(2) The revenues from the special fund attributable to the levy of the remaining 2% of the tax shall be deposited into the tourist promotion agency fund required under subsection (e) until disbursed under subsection (j).

(e) Duty of treasurer.--The treasurer of each county electing to impose the tax authorized under this section shall collect the tax and, subject to the deduction of the administrative fee authorized by subsection (o):

(1) deposit 80% of the revenues attributable to the levy of the first 5% of the tax in a special fund established for the purposes set forth in this section;

(2) deposit 20% of the revenues attributable to the levy of the first 5% of the tax in the tourist promotion agency fund until disbursed under subsection (j); and

(3) deposit the revenues attributable to the levy of the remaining 2% of the tax in the tourist promotion agency fund until disbursed under subsection (j).

(f) Deposit of interest.--Interest on money deposited into the funds shall accrue proportionately as provided under subsection (e).

(g) Rules and regulations.--The treasurer may establish rules and regulations concerning the collection of the tax, which may not occur more than monthly nor less than quarterly.

(h) Special fund.--The authority shall have the right to draw upon the special fund established under subsection (e)(1) for the authority. Expenditures from the special fund shall be used by the authority for the following purposes:

(1) Projected annual debt service or lease payments of the convention center authority.

(2) Costs associated with financing, constructing, expanding, improving, maintaining, furnishing, fixturing and equipping convention centers.

(3) Costs associated with the development of convention centers, including design, engineering and feasibility costs.

(4) Costs associated with the operation and management of convention centers.

(5) Costs associated with promoting, marketing and otherwise encouraging use of the convention centers.

(6) General purposes of the authority.

(7) Grants authorized under section 17335(e) (relating to purpose and powers of authorities).

(i) Security.--If and to the extent that the authority pledges the authority's share of the proceeds of the tax authorized by this section as security for the payment of bonds issued by the authority for convention centers, the following shall apply:

(1) The Commonwealth pledges to and agrees with any person, firm or corporation subscribing to or acquiring bonds to be issued by the authority for convention center purposes that the Commonwealth will not, nor will the Commonwealth authorize a county to, reduce the rate of tax imposed for convention centers until all bonds secured by the pledge of the authority, together with interest, are fully met and discharged.

(2) The county may not reduce the rate of tax imposed for convention centers until all bonds secured by the pledge of the authority, together with interest, are fully met and discharged.

(j) Disbursement of money.--Revenues received from the tax deposited into the tourist promotion agency fund required under subsection (f) shall be disbursed by each county to the tourist promotion agency within 10 days of receipt of the revenues.

(k) Fiscal year.--Each tax year any tax imposed under this section shall run concurrently with the county's fiscal year.

(l) Audit.--An audited report on the income and expenditures incurred by a tourist promotion agency receiving revenues from the tax authorized under this section shall be submitted annually by the tourist promotion agency to the county commissioners.

(m) Penalty.--Notwithstanding any provision of law to the contrary, in counties of the third class having a population under the 1990 Federal decennial census in excess of 415,000 residents but less than 500,000 residents, a penalty of 1.5% per month shall be imposed for failure to timely remit the tax authorized by this section.

(n) Lien.--In addition to other remedies available for collection of debts, the county may also file a lien upon the hotel in the name of and for the use of the county as provided by law for municipal claims.

(o) Administrative fee.--For purposes of defraying the costs of collecting the tax imposed under this section and otherwise performing the county's obligations under this subchapter, the county may deduct and retain an administrative fee from the taxes collected under this subsection. The administrative fee shall be established by the county but may not exceed in any tax year the lesser of:

(1) 2% of all taxes collected hereunder; or

(2) $40,000, which amount shall be adjusted biannually, beginning two years after the date of enactment, by the percentage growth in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers as determined by the United States Department of Labor.

(p) Regulations.--The county shall have the authority to prescribe rules and regulations as the county determines are appropriate to administer the provisions of this section.

(q) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection:

"Consideration." Receipts, fees, charges, rentals, leases, cash, credits, property of any kind or nature or other payment received by operators in exchange for or in consideration of the use or occupancy by a transient of a room or rooms in a hotel for a temporary period.

"Convention center or convention center facility." Any land, improvement, structure, building or part thereof, or property interest, whether owned by or leased by or to or otherwise acquired by an authority, appropriate for any of the following: large public assemblies, the holding of conventions,

conferences, trade exhibitions and other business, social, cultural, scientific, sports, recreational, artistic and public interest events, performances and exhibitions and all facilities, furniture, fixtures and equipment necessary or incident thereto, including hotels, meeting rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, ballrooms, reception areas, registration and prefunction areas, locker rooms, practice areas and equipment, training areas and equipment, truck loading areas, including access and accessways, including, but not limited to, tunnels, overhead walkways, escalators, elevators and other connections to nearby or adjoining buildings or facilities, regardless of whether the buildings or facilities constitute convention centers or are owned or controlled by the authority, common areas, lobbies, offices and areas appurtenant to any of the preceding, and also including other land, buildings, structures or facilities for use or planned for use in conjunction with the foregoing, including landscaping, buffer areas, off-street parking, retail areas and other improvements related to a convention center owned by or leased by or to an authority, regardless of whether the improvements are for the purpose of producing revenues to assist in defraying the costs or expenses of a convention center.

"Hotel." A hotel, motel, inn, guest house or other building or complex of buildings located within the market area which holds itself out by any means, including advertising, license, registration with an innkeeper's group, convention listing association, travel publication or similar association or with a government agency, as being available to provide overnight lodging or use of facility space for consideration to persons seeking temporary accommodation, and the following shall apply:

(1) The term includes:

(i) A place which advertises to the general public or a segment of the general public that it will provide beds, sanitary facilities or other space for a temporary period to members of the general public.

(ii) A place recognized as a hostelry.

(2) The term does not include portions of a facility which are devoted to individuals who have established permanent residence.

(3) The term does not include a bed and breakfast homestead or inn as defined in the former act of May 23, 1945 (P.L.926, No.369), referred to as the Public Eating and Drinking Place Law.

"Market area." With respect to a county in which there is more than one city of the third class, the entire county. With respect to a county in which there is only one city of the third class, one of the following, as selected by the governing body of the county:

(1) That city and the area within the county which is not more than 15 miles from the city limits of the county seat.

(2) That city and the area within the county which, as determined by the governing body of the county imposing the tax, derives a material benefit from the existence of the convention center within the county. The owner of a hotel affected by a determination by the governing body under this subparagraph may challenge the determination by filing a petition in the court of common pleas in the judicial district in which the determination was made.

"Occupancy." The use or possession or the right to the use or possession by a person other than a permanent resident of a room in a hotel for any purpose, or the right to the use or

possession of the furnishings or to the services accompanying the use and possession of the room.

"Operator." Any individual, partnership, nonprofit or profit-making association or corporation or other person or group of persons that maintain, operate, manage, own, have custody of or otherwise possess the right to rent or lease overnight accommodations in a hotel to the public for consideration.

"Patron." An individual who pays the consideration for the occupancy of a room or rooms in a hotel.

"Permanent resident." An individual who has occupied or has the right to occupy a room or rooms in a hotel as a patron or otherwise for a period exceeding 30 consecutive days.

"Room." A space in a hotel set aside for use and occupancy by patrons, or otherwise, for consideration, having at least one bed or other sleeping accommodations provided therein.

"Temporary." A period of time not exceeding 30 consecutive days.

"Tourist promotion agency." The agency designated by the governing body of a county or county seat in which the convention centers are located to be eligible for grants from the Department of Community and Economic Development under the act of July 4, 2008 (P.L.621, No.50), known as the Tourism Promotion Act.

"Transaction." The activity involving the obtaining by a transient or patron of the use or occupancy of a hotel room from which consideration emanates to the operator under an express or implied contract.

"Transient." An individual who obtains an accommodation in any hotel for the individual by means of registering at the facility for the temporary occupancy of a room for the personal use of that individual by paying to the operator of the facility a fee in consideration for the accommodation.

"Treasurer." The elected treasurer of the county or, if there is no elected treasurer, another official or agent of the county as may be designated by the county to collect and account for the tax authorized by this section.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15107 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 151 / Section 15107
Application of contract provisions.
Status: in_force

The provisions of this chapter shall apply to all of the contractual powers of the county commissioners contained in this part, or other laws not inconsistent with this chapter, and the mention of powers of contract outside this chapter shall not be construed as disregarding the applicable provisions of this chapter.
16 Pa.C.S. § 12360 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 123 / Section 12360
Meetings open to public.
Status: in_force

Each regular or special meeting of the county commissioners and of each board, commission and authority, created by or operating as an agency of a county, shall be a public meeting subject to 65 Pa.C.S. Ch. 7 (relating to open meetings).
16 Pa.C.S. § 13711 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 137 / Section 13711
Penalties.
Status: in_force

A sheriff, deputy sheriff or other county police officer or another official of the county or an individual, association or corporation that violates the provisions of section 13706 (relating to deputy sheriff's qualifications), 13709 (relating to public list of applicants for deputy sheriff) or 13710 (relating to private services, gifts and payments prohibited) commits a misdemeanor and shall, upon conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine of not less than $100 nor more than $500 or to undergo imprisonment for not less than 90 days nor more than two years, or both.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14975 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 149 / Section 14975
Transfer of certain money into general fund of county.
Status: in_force

The county commissioners may transfer and cover into the general fund of the county money placed to the credit of a city, borough or township, if:

(1) the money has been paid into the county treasury upon a duplicate for taxes and has remained during a period of 10 years uncalled for by the authorities of the city, borough or township to whose credit it may have been placed; and

(2) the right to the money is not, at the time of the transfer, a matter of litigation or dispute.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14707 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 147 / Section 14707
Monthly returns.
Status: in_force

(a) Separate returns and payment.--Each county officer shall make a separate return to the Department of Revenue of all taxes or fees collected or earned for the Commonwealth by the officer, if any, at the same time that monthly returns are made under section 14702 (relating to system of accounts and fees paid to county treasurer). The taxes, fees and other amounts due to the Commonwealth shall be paid over as required, but not more often than monthly, unless specifically provided by law or regulation.

(b) Commissions.--All commissions on the collection of taxes and fees for the Commonwealth shall be deemed and taken as part of the regular fees of the county officer collecting and shall be accounted for accordingly.

(c) Applicability of section.--This section applies only to the reporting and payment of any taxes or fees and to the treatment of commissions as are not otherwise provided for by law.
16 Pa.C.S. § 17348 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 173 / Section 17348
Limitation of powers.
Status: in_force

(a) Bonds.--The Commonwealth pledges to and agrees with any:

(1) person, county, county seat, political subdivision or Federal agency subscribing to or acquiring the bonds to be issued by the authority for the construction or improvement of a convention center that the Commonwealth will not limit or alter the rights vested in the authority

under law in any manner inconsistent with the obligations to the bondholders until all bonds issued, together with the interest, are fully paid and discharged; and

(2) Federal agency that in the event that a Federal agency shall construct or contribute money for the construction or improvement of a convention center that the Commonwealth shall not alter or limit the rights and powers of the authority in any manner which would be inconsistent with the due performance of any agreements between the authority and the Federal agency.

(b) Leases.--The Commonwealth pledges to and agrees with any person that, as owner, leases or subleases a convention center to or from an authority created pursuant to this subchapter that the Commonwealth will not limit or alter the rights and powers vested in the authority or otherwise created by this subchapter in any manner which impairs the obligations of the authority until all obligations of the authority under the lease or sublease are fully met and discharged.
16 Pa.C.S. § 12311 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 123 / Section 12311
Penalty.
Status: in_force

If a county officer neglects or refuses to perform a duty imposed on the officer under this part, any other act or by a rule of court, the officer commits, for each neglect or refusal, a misdemeanor and, upon conviction, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding $500.
16 Pa.C.S. § 13714 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 137 / Section 13714
Sheriff to keep docket.
Status: in_force

A sheriff shall provide and keep in the office of sheriff a book in which the sheriff shall enter all writs that may be received and the proceedings of all the writs. At the expiration of the term of office, the book shall be deposited in the office

of the prothonotary for the inspection of all interested members of the public.
16 Pa.C.S. § 17502 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 175 / Section 17502
Authorization of five percent hotel tax for a county of the third class.
Status: in_force

(a) Imposition.--The county commissioners of any county of the third class having a population under the 1990 Federal Decennial Census in excess of 237,000 residents, but less than 240,000 residents, may impose a hotel tax not to exceed 5% of the consideration received by each operator of a hotel within the county from each transaction of renting a room or rooms to transients. The tax shall be collected by the operator from the patron of the room or rooms and paid over to the county as herein provided.

(b) Records.--The county commissioners may by ordinance impose requirements for the keeping of records, the filing of tax returns and the time and manner of collection and payment of tax. The county commissioners may also impose by ordinance penalties and interest for failure to comply with recordkeeping, filing, collection and payment requirements.

(c) Disposition of first two percent of tax revenue.--The county commissioners of each county shall designate the entity or agency responsible to collect and to enforce the collection of the tax on their behalf. All revenues received from the tax shall be deposited into a special fund, which is to be established by the county's treasurer. The disposition of the revenues from the special fund attributable to the levy of the first 2% of the tax shall be as follows:

(1) twenty percent of all revenues received per annum shall be distributed by the treasurer to a city of the third class in the county of the third class imposing the tax for

the appropriate and reasonable marketing and promotional expenses of promoting tourism in the city of a third class and the costs associated with the renovation, rehabilitation, extension, furnishing, equipping, substantial repair or construction of a tourism-related facility located within the city of the third class, including for payment of the debt service on bonds issued for such projects;

(2) ten percent of all revenues received per annum shall be distributed by the treasurer to the county commissioners who may accept the funds which may be used for tourism and regional promotion purposes to be determined by the county commissioners, or, if the county commissioners elect not to accept the funds, the funds shall be distributed by the treasurer to the TPA for the appropriate and reasonable marketing and promotional expenses of the TPA in promoting tourism in the county of the third class imposing the tax, excluding promotion of a city of the third class receiving revenues under paragraph (1); and

(3) seventy percent of all revenue received per annum shall be distributed by the treasurer to qualified authorities located within the county of the third class imposing the tax for payment of the debt service on bonds issued for the construction of a county regional sports facility having a seating capacity of two and one-half thousand to fourteen thousand seats, which is owned, in whole or in part, or leased by the applicable authority, and which is located within the county of the third class imposing the tax. The following are qualified authorities for purposes of this paragraph:

(i) an authority incorporated pursuant to the former act of May 2, 1945 (P.L.382, No.164), known as the Municipality Authorities Act of 1945;

(ii) an industrial or commercial development authority incorporated pursuant to the act of August 23, 1967 (P.L.251, No.102), known as the Economic Development Financing Law; and

(iii) a redevelopment authority incorporated pursuant to the act of May 24, 1945 (P.L.991, No.385), known as the Urban Redevelopment Law.

(d) Disposition of the third one percent of the tax revenue.--The disposition of the revenues from the special fund attributable to the levy of the third percent of the tax, if levied, shall be distributed at the discretion of the county commissioners and used solely for tourism and regional promotion purposes.

(e) Disposition of remaining two percent of tax revenue.--The disposition of the revenues from the special fund attributable to the levy of the remaining 2% of the tax shall be distributed by the treasurer as follows:

(1) fifty percent shall be distributed to the TPA for the appropriate and reasonable marketing and promotional expenses for promoting tourism in the county imposing the tax; and

(2) fifty percent shall be distributed as follows:

(i) Seventy-five percent to an authority incorporated pursuant to the former "Municipality Authorities Act of 1945" located within the county of the third class currently imposing a tax for payment of the debt service on bonds issued for the construction of a county regional sports facility having a seating capacity of two and one-half thousand to fourteen thousand seats, which is owned, in whole or in part, or

leased by the applicable authority, and which is located within the county of the third class imposing the tax. Such authority shall use the tax distribution identified in this section for the improvement, support, rehabilitation, revitalization, construction, fit-out and reconstruction of one or more tourism or tourism infrastructure-related facilities, including, but not limited to, the payment of debt service on bonds related thereto.

(ii) Twenty-five percent shall be distributed to the TPA for the appropriate and reasonable marketing and promotional expenses of promoting tourism in a city of the third class located within the county of the third class imposing the tax, and the same shall be used in accordance with a plan approved by the TPA.

(f) Collection and deposit.--The treasurer of each county electing to impose the tax authorized under this section shall collect the tax from the entity or agency designated by the county commissioners to collect and to enforce the collection of the tax and shall deposit the revenues received from the tax in a special fund established for that purpose.

(g) Concurrent tax years.--The tax year for a tax imposed under this section shall run concurrently with the calendar year.

(h) Audit.--An audited report on the income and expenditures incurred by a tourist promotion agency receiving any revenues from the tax authorized under this section shall be submitted annually by the tourist promotion agency to the county commissioners.

(i) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection:

"Consideration." Receipts, fees, charges, rentals, leases, cash, credits, property of any kind or nature or other payment received by operators in exchange for or in consideration of the use or occupancy by a transient of a room or rooms in a hotel for any temporary period.

"Debt service on bonds." Any cost related to the issuance, refinancing, refunding or payment or any other costs associated with the issuance and maintenance of bonds or notes by an authority or a city of the third class.

"Hotel." A hotel, motel, inn, guest house or other structure which holds itself out by any means, including advertising, license, registration with an innkeepers' group, convention listing association, travel publication or similar association or with a government agency, as being available to provide overnight lodging or the use of facility space for consideration to persons seeking temporary accommodation; any place which advertises to the public at large or any segment thereof that it will provide beds, sanitary facilities or other space for a temporary period to members of the public at large; or any place recognized as a hostelry. The term does not include any portion of a facility that is devoted to persons who have an established permanent residence or a college or university student residence hall.

"Occupancy." The use or possession or the right to the use or possession by any person other than a permanent resident of any room in a hotel for any purpose or the right to the use or possession of the furnishings or to the services accompanying the use and possession of the room.

"Operator." An individual, partnership, nonprofit or profit-making association or corporation or other person or

group of persons who maintains, operates, manages, owns, has custody of or otherwise possesses the right to rent or lease overnight accommodations in a hotel to the public for consideration.

"Patron." A person who pays the consideration for the occupancy of a room or rooms in a hotel.

"Permanent resident." A person who has occupied or has the right to occupancy of a room or rooms in a hotel as a patron or otherwise for a period exceeding 30 consecutive days.

"Room." A space in a hotel set aside for use and occupancy by patrons, or otherwise, for consideration, having at least one bed or other sleeping accommodation in a room or group of rooms.

"Tourist Promotion Agency (TPA)." An organization, agency or corporation designated to be such by the board of commissioners of the county in which the tax is imposed. The TPA shall be duly established, designated and recognized as the county's TPA in accordance with and pursuant to the former act of April 28, 1961 (P.L.111, No.50), known as the Tourist Promotion Law.

"Transaction." The activity involving the obtaining by a transient or patron of the use or occupancy of a hotel room from which consideration is payable to the operator under an express or implied contract.

"Transient." An individual who obtains accommodation in a hotel by means of registering at the facility for the temporary occupancy of a room for the personal use of the individual by paying a fee to the operator.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16736 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 167 / Section 16736
Contracts with railroad companies.
Status: in_force

(a) Contract with railroad.--A railroad company whose tracks or other facilities are located upon a county bridge may contract and agree with the county commissioners for the use, purchase, removal, replacing or exchange of the bridge, or for the compensation to be paid to the county by the company for the use and occupancy of the bridge or parts of the bridge.

(b) Debts.--All money due and all obligations incurred by the companies under a contract may be collected and enforced in the same manner as debts of like amount are recovered and similar obligations enforced in this Commonwealth.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14307 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 143 / Section 14307
Legal resources for district attorney.
Status: in_force

The county commissioners may purchase, for the use of the office of the district attorney, out of the funds of the county, law books and other legal research resources as may be selected by the district attorney and, in counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth classes, as approved by the president judge of the court.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15337 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 153 / Section 15337
Agricultural or horticultural societies.
Status: in_force

(a) Appropriations.--The county commissioners are authorized to make appropriations annually out of the current revenues of the county to an incorporated agricultural or horticultural society or association located within the county.

(b) Additional appropriations.--The county commissioners are authorized to make additional appropriations annually out of the current revenues of the county to an incorporated agricultural or horticultural society or association located within the Commonwealth.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14105 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 141 / Section 14105
Appointment of first deputies.
Status: in_force

The recorder of deeds shall appoint one first deputy to act for the death or resignation of the first deputy's principal or when the office becomes vacant from other causes. The register of wills shall appoint a deputy or deputies with powers and duties specified under 20 Pa.C.S. Ch. 9 (relating to register of wills).
16 Pa.C.S. § 17113 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 171 / Section 17113
Definitions.
Status: in_force

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Auditorium authority." The authority created to operate the convention center under the act of July 29, 1953 (P.L.1034, No.270), known as the Public Auditorium Authorities Law.

"Authority." The Regional Renaissance Authority established under section 17131 (relating to authority established).

"Authority employee." The chairperson and members of the board of the authority, counsel retained by the authority either as an employee or otherwise, the chief administrative officer of the authority and any employee with discretionary powers who may affect the outcome of a decision by the authority in relation to a private corporation or business or any employee who by virtue of the employee's job function could influence the outcome of a decision.

"Baseball park." A baseball park to be constructed in the central city, designed for the purpose of playing major league baseball games.

"Board." The governing body of the Regional Renaissance Authority.

"Bonds." Notes, bonds, refunding notes and bonds, interim certificates, debentures and other evidences of indebtedness or obligations that the authority may issue under this chapter. Bonds may be either tax-exempt bonds, the interest on which is excludable from gross income for Federal income tax purposes or taxable bonds, the interest on which is includable in gross income for Federal income tax purposes.

"Central city." A city of the second class located in a county of the second class.

"Central county." A county of the second class.

"Construction." The term includes site acquisition, demolition and other preparation for and the design, renovation, improvement, expansion, erection, furnishing, fixturing and equipping of the facility or building involved.

"Contiguous county." A county, other than a county of the second class, that:

(1) has a boundary that touches, even at a single point, a county of the second class;

(2) is a county of the fourth, fifth or sixth class and shares common boundaries at more than a single point with two counties described in paragraph (1); or

(3) is a county of the sixth class and is located to the south and west of a county described in paragraph (2).

"Convention and visitors bureau." The tourist promotion agency located in the central city that receives funds from the hotel tax imposed by former section 1970.2 of the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), known as the Second Class County Code.

"Convention center." The real property described in section 17181(a) (relating to conveyance of convention center), together with the structures, facilities, buildings, fixtures and improvements located thereon, and known as the David L. Lawrence Convention Center.

"County account." A special account established within the Regional Growth Fund under section 17121(c) (relating to establishment of Regional Growth Fund).

"County growth board." A new or existing entity designated under section 17122(c)(2)(ii) (relating to use of Regional Growth Fund) for the purpose of developing a county growth plan.

"County growth plan." A plan for the use of money in a county account that is developed and submitted to the authority in accordance with section 17122(c).

"Cultural district." A geographic area within a city of the second class adjacent to the convention center that is not more than one-half square mile in size and that has located within it at least three theaters for the performing arts.

"Department." The Department of Revenue of the Commonwealth.

"Design commission." The Southwestern Pennsylvania Convention Center Design Commission established under section 17162 (relating to Southwestern Pennsylvania Convention Center Design Commission).

"Football stadium." A football stadium to be constructed in the central city, designed for the purpose of playing National Football League games.

"Governing body." The board of county commissioners or the county executive or other person exercising the functions of the county executive in a county without a board of county commissioners.

"Immediate family." A parent, spouse, child, brother, sister, the spouse of a child, brother or sister or the parent of a spouse.

"Participating county." A county in which the referendum provided for in section 17154 (relating to referenda levying additional taxes) has been approved by the voters.

"Party officer." The following members or officers of any political party:

(1) A member of a national committee.

(2) A chairman, vice chairman, secretary, treasurer or counsel of a State committee or members of the executive committee of a State committee.

(3) A county chairman, vice chairman, counsel, secretary or treasurer of a county committee.

(4) A city chairman, vice chairman, counsel, secretary or treasurer of a city committee.

"Public employee." An individual employed by the Commonwealth or a political subdivision within the Commonwealth.

"Public officer." An individual elected to any public office of Commonwealth government or any political subdivision within the Commonwealth.

"Public official." Any elected or appointed official in the executive, legislative or judicial branch of Commonwealth government or any political subdivision within the Commonwealth. The term does not include the following:

(1) Members of advisory boards who do not have authority to expend public money other than reimbursement for personal expenses or to otherwise exercise the power of the Commonwealth or any political subdivision within the Commonwealth.

(2) Any appointed official who does not receive compensation other than reimbursement for actual expenses.

"Regional Destination Facilities Fund." The Regional Destination Facilities Fund established under section 17171 (relating to establishment of Regional Destination Facilities Fund).

"Regional destination facility." Any of the following:

(1) The convention center.

(2) The baseball park.

(3) The football stadium.

(4) Parks, parking facilities and at least two theaters to be constructed in the cultural district.

"Regional Growth Fund." The Regional Growth Fund established under section 17121.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16707 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 167 / Section 16707
Approval of Federal or State agencies and change in location.
Status: in_force

If a proposed bridge crosses a navigable stream or other public water or the property or right-of-way of any railroad or other public utility requiring the approval of any Federal or State officer, board or body as to the location and construction of the bridge or its approaches, the county shall have authority to construct the bridge in another location and manner as may be necessary to comply with the conditions prescribed by the officer, board or body in granting approval, if the county commissioners deem the proposed bridge necessary for the convenience of the traveling public and accommodates substantially the same traveling public as the bridge would have done if it had been constructed at the location and in the manner originally provided.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16753.1 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 167 / Section 16753.1
Contributions.
Status: in_force

If a bridge or viaduct is built by a municipality and does not cross any place over which the county may construct a bridge but crosses merely railroad or railroads and private property, the county commissioners of counties of the second class A may contract to pay an amount of money, not exceeding 30% of the entire cost of the proposed bridge or viaduct. The bridge or viaduct shall thereafter be maintained as a municipal structure, and the county may not be liable for any part of the cost of maintenance or repair thereof.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14709 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 147 / Section 14709
Salaries in lieu of fees.
Status: in_force

Except to the extent this section may be inconsistent with any other express provision of this part, the salaries fixed and provided by law for county officers shall be in lieu of money, fees, perquisites or mileage expenses and other allowances received or allowed to any officer. All money, fees, perquisites or mileage expenses and other allowances, not governed by the exceptions, shall belong to the county and shall be paid into the county treasury, except if required to be paid to the Commonwealth in the manner provided by this subchapter for fees.
16 Pa.C.S. § 13921 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 139 / Section 13921
Sudden death.
Status: in_force

(a) Recognition.--The coroner shall recognize a death as sudden if all of the following apply:

(1) The death occurs without prior medical attendance by an individual who may lawfully execute a certificate of death in this Commonwealth.

(2) Within 24 hours of death the decedent:

(i) was discharged from medical attendance;

(ii) had a change of medical attendance occur; or

(iii) had medical attendance and the medical attendant refuses or is unable to certify the cause of death.

(b) Construction.--Nothing in this section may be construed to affect the coroner's discretion in determining if a death is suspicious or to authorize a coroner to investigate a sudden death further than necessary to determine the cause and manner of death.

(c) Definition.--As used in this section, the term "medical attendance" shall include treatment or care at a facility

providing medical services, including a hospital, nursing home and hospice service.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15352 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 153 / Section 15352
Establishment of fire training schools.
Status: in_force

(a) Appropriations.--The county commissioners may appropriate annual money to lawfully organized or incorporated county or regional firemen's associations to establish, equip, maintain and operate, and the county commissioners may establish, equip, maintain and operate, fire training schools or centers for the purpose of giving instruction and practical training in the prevention, control and fighting of fire and related fire department emergencies to the members of paid fire departments and volunteer fire companies in any city, borough, town or township within the county.

(b) Regional fire training schools.--If a firemen's association is comprised of residents of two or more counties or contemplates operation of a regional fire training school

in two or more counties, the county commissioners may appropriate money to the association.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16732 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 167 / Section 16732
Lighting of county bridges.
Status: in_force

If considered necessary for the safety and convenience of the traveling public, the county commissioners may provide a county bridge with lights of any kind and character that the county commissioners shall deem suitable and may contract with any individual or with any municipal or private corporation for the purpose of supplying the necessary light.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16176 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 161 / Section 16176
Admission to home.
Status: in_force

Indigent orphans and children shall be admitted to an orphans' or childrens' home on order of the county commissioners.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16118 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 161 / Section 16118
Contract performance security and payment bonds.
Status: in_force

(a) General rule.--Unless covered under the bonding requirements of the act of December 20, 1967 (P.L.869, No.385), known as the Public Works Contractors' Bond Law of 1967, for construction contracts awarded for amounts between $25,000 and $100,000, the successful bidder shall furnish a bond guaranteeing performance of the contract, in an amount as determined by the county commissioners at the time of advertising for bids, which shall be no less than 10% or more than 100% of the amount of the contract, within 30 days after the contract is awarded. If a construction contract is awarded in excess of $100,000, the following bonds shall be delivered to the county and shall be binding on the parties upon the execution of the contract:

(1) A performance bond, executed by a surety company authorized to do business in this Commonwealth and made payable to the county, in an amount determined by the county commissioners at the time of advertising for bids which shall be not less than 50% or more than 100% of the price specified in the contract and conditioned upon the faithful performance of the contract in accordance with the plans, specifications and conditions of the contract.

(2) A payment bond, executed by a surety company authorized to do business in this Commonwealth and made payable to the county, in an amount equal to 100% of the price specified in the contract and conditioned upon the prompt payment for all materials furnished or labor supplied or performed in the prosecution of the work. Labor and materials include public utility services and reasonable rentals of equipment for the periods when the equipment is actually used at the site.

(b) Bond protection.--A performance bond shall be solely for the protection of the county. A payment bond shall be solely for the protection of claimants supplying labor or materials to the prime contractor to whom the contract was awarded or to any subcontractors in the prosecution of the work provided for in the contract, regardless of if the labor or materials constitute a component part of the construction.

(c) Construction.--Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the authority of the county commissioners to require a performance bond, payment bond or other security in addition to those bonds or in circumstances other than specified in subsection (a).

(d) Payment bonds.--Actions on payment bonds shall be in accordance with the following:

(1) Subject to paragraph (2), a claimant who has performed labor or furnished material in the prosecution of the work under a contract for which a payment bond has been given under subsection (a), and who has not been paid in full before the expiration of 90 days after the day on which the claimant performed the last of the labor or furnished the last of the materials for which it claims payments, may bring an action on the payment bond in its own name, in assumpsit, to recover any amount due it for the labor or material and may prosecute the action to final judgment and have execution on the judgment.

(2) A claimant who has a direct contractual relationship with a subcontractor of the prime contractor who gave the payment bond but has no contractual relationship, express or implied, with the prime contractor may bring an action on the payment bond only if the claimant has given written notice to the contractor within 90 days from the date on which the claimant performed the last of the labor or furnished the last of the materials for which it claims payment, stating with substantial accuracy the amount and the name of the person for whom the work was performed or to whom the material was furnished.

(3) Notice shall be served by registered mail in an envelope addressed to the contractor at any place where the contractor's office is regularly maintained for the transaction of business or served in any manner in which legal process may be served in the manner provided by law for the service of a summons, except that the service need not be made by a public officer.

(e) Dollar thresholds.--The dollar thresholds provided under subsection (a) shall be adjusted annually to reflect the annual percentage change in the Composite Construction Cost Index of the United States Department of Commerce occurring in the one-year period ending on December 31 of each year. Cross References. Section 16118 is referred to in section 15102 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14933 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 149 / Section 14933
Allowance of attorney fees.
Status: in_force

(a) Award.--Upon final determination of an appeal taken under section 14931 (relating to appeals from reports), attorney fees shall be awarded as follows:

(1) If the court's final determination is more favorable to the officer involved than that awarded by the controller or auditors, the county shall pay reasonable attorney fees, except under paragraph (3).

(2) For an appeal taken by the Commonwealth, the county or taxpayers, if the court's final determination is more favorable to the Commonwealth or county than that awarded by the controller or auditors, the officer who is the subject of the surcharge proceeding shall pay reasonable attorney fees, except under paragraph (3).

(3) If the court's final determination is in part more favorable to the Commonwealth or county and in part more favorable to the officer involved in the surcharge proceeding than that awarded by the controller or auditors, the court may order the Commonwealth or the county to pay a portion of reasonable attorney fees incurred by the officer in connection with the surcharge proceeding or may order the officer who is the subject of the surcharge proceeding to pay a portion of reasonable attorney fees incurred by the Commonwealth, county or taxpayer in connection with the surcharge proceeding.

(b) Allocation.--The attorney fees for appeals involving accounts other than those of county officers shall be allocated in the court's discretion.

(c) Justice and equity.--In adjudications of the official actions of the auditors or controllers other than appeals as provided in section 14931, the court may award reasonable attorney fees to the prevailing party.

(d) Effect of section.--Nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing personal liability for attorney fees or costs.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14928 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 149 / Section 14928
Witness fees.
Status: in_force

Witnesses appearing before the controller or auditors shall receive the same allowance as is received by witnesses appearing before the courts of this Commonwealth. The allowance shall be paid out of the county treasury and, if final judgment is given against an officer whose accounts are settled by the controller or auditor, shall be included in the costs assessed against the officer.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15950 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 159 / Section 15950
Creation of county transit and traffic commission.
Status: in_force

(a) Establishment.--The county commissioners of a county of the second class A may establish a county transit and traffic commission under this subchapter.

(b) Existing commission.--A county transit and traffic commission existing on December 24, 2018, may continue to exist under this subchapter.

(c) Composition.--The county transit and traffic commission shall be composed of nine members in accordance with the following:

(1) Each of the nine members shall be residents of the county in accordance with the following:

(i) Not more than four of the members shall be residents of cities in the county.

(ii) Not more than two of the members shall be regular employees of a publicly financed body.

(2) Members shall be individuals experienced in at least one of the following:

(i) Engineering.

(ii) Commerce.

(iii) Finance.

(iv) Law.

(v) Transportation.

(vi) Traffic matters.

(3) Each member shall be appointed by the county commissioners.

(4) If there is an existing board on December 24, 2018, which has duties substantially similar to those of the commission established under this section, new members shall be appointed upon the expiration of the terms of the existing members.

(d) Terms, quorums and vacancies.--

(1) Each member shall serve for a term of six years.

(2) Five members shall constitute a quorum.

(3) An appointment to fill a vacancy shall be only for the unexpired term of the vacancy.

(e) Organization.--The commission members may make rules and regulations for the commission's organization and procedure consistent with the resolutions of the county commissioners and the laws of this Commonwealth.

(f) Compensation and expenses.--

(1) Members shall serve without compensation.

(2) The county commissioners may provide for the following expenses, at the county commissioners' discretion, by resolution and appropriation:

(i) Employment of a technical staff or other individuals as necessary.

(ii) Necessary expenses of the commission.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14721 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 147 / Section 14721
Fees.
Status: in_force

(a) General rule.--A county officer shall charge and collect the fees, mileage and emoluments of the office for the officer's own use or for the use of the county, as provided by law.

(b) Payment of fees.--Fees, mileage and emoluments shall be paid to the county treasurer.

(c) Timing of payment.--Fees, mileage and emoluments shall be paid on or before the 10th day of each month unless otherwise required.
16 Pa.C.S. § 17136 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 171 / Section 17136
Capital budgets.
Status: in_force

(a) General rule.--At least 90 days before commencement of the ensuing fiscal year of the authority, recommended capital budgets relating to the Regional Destination Facilities Fund and the Regional Growth Fund shall be prepared and submitted to the board. The capital budgets shall show, in detail, the capital expenditures to be made or incurred in the next fiscal year which are to be financed from each fund. The capital budgets shall be adopted by the board no later than the date of the adoption of its annual operating budget as required under section 17137 (relating to operating budget).

(b) Vote.--Except for projects contained in a county growth plan, a majority of the members of the board who are residents of a particular participating county must vote in favor of the inclusion in a capital budget for the Regional Growth Fund of any expenditure relating to a project within that county. Projects contained in a county growth plan shall be approved in accordance with sections 17121 (relating to establishment of Regional Growth Fund) and 17122 (relating to use of Regional Growth Fund).

(c) Public hearing.--The board shall conduct an annual public hearing regarding the proposed annual capital budget for the Regional Growth Fund. Cross References. Section 17136 is referred to in sections 17122, 17135 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 17310 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 173 / Section 17310
Additional remedies conferrable by authority.
Status: in_force

(a) Default.--The authority shall have power by resolution, trust, indenture or mortgage to confer upon an obligee holding or representing a specified percentage of bonds the right, in addition to all rights that may otherwise be conferred, upon the happening of an event of default as defined in the resolution or instrument, by suit, action or proceeding in a court of competent jurisdiction:

(1) to obtain the appointment of a receiver of any real property or leasehold interest of the authority and of the

rents and profits from the real property or leasehold interest. If a receiver is appointed, the receiver may enter and take possession of the real property or any leasehold interest, operate the property of leasehold interest and collect and receive all revenues or other income arising from the operation and shall keep the money in a separate account and apply the money in accordance with the obligations of the authority as the court shall direct; or

(2) to require the authority and authority members to account as if it and they were the trustees of an express trust.

(b) Authority of receiver.--Nothing in this subchapter shall authorize a receiver appointed under this subchapter for the purpose of operating and maintaining facilities of the authority to sell, assign, mortgage or otherwise dispose of the assets of the authority. It is the intention of this subchapter to limit the powers of the receiver to the operation and maintenance of the facilities of the authority as the court directs, and the following apply:

(1) Receivers may not sell, assign, mortgage or otherwise dispose of any assets of the authority.

(2) Bondholders, trustees and other obligees do not have the right in any suit, action or proceeding, at law or in equity, to compel a receiver to sell, assign, mortgage or otherwise dispose of any assets of the authority.

(3) A court may not direct a receiver to sell, assign, mortgage or otherwise dispose of any assets of the authority.
16 Pa.C.S. § 1132 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 11 / Section 1132
Payment of premiums and commissions on collections.
Status: in_force

(a) Premiums and costs.--The premiums and costs for all forms of required security for county officials and employees shall be paid by the county. The requirement of this subchapter that a county acquire and pay the premiums and costs for required security shall not relieve a Commonwealth agency on whose behalf a county officer or employee is acting as an agent from an obligation, imposed by law, to procure insurance or bonding protection.

(b) Commissions on collections.--Nothing in this subchapter shall affect the right, provided for in any other law, of a county officer or employee to retain a commission, for use of the county, on amounts collected or transmitted as agent for a Commonwealth agency. Notwithstanding the right to retain commissions in accordance with this subsection, no county officer or employee shall be entitled to retain any additional sums from amounts collected for or to be transmitted to the Commonwealth agency for the purpose of paying premiums or costs related to the acquisition of required security.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14990 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 149 / Section 14990
Membership.
Status: in_force

Each county may establish a sinking fund commission. The sinking fund commission shall be composed of:

(1) the county commissioners;

(2) the controller, or auditors in counties without a controller; and

(3) the treasurer.
16 Pa.C.S. § 17304 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 173 / Section 17304
Authority creation.
Status: in_force

The governing bodies of a third class county and the political subdivision constituting the county seat or the county acting alone may create a body corporate and politic to be named the ......... County Convention Center Authority to be created as a public authority and government instrumentality to have continuing succession until its existence shall be terminated by law. If the convention center to be constructed by an authority created under this subchapter shall be located within the jurisdictional limits of the county seat of the county, the authority shall be a joint authority of the county and the county seat. If the convention center shall be located outside the jurisdictional limits of the county seat of the county, the authority may be created solely by the county. The exercise by the authority of the powers conferred by this subchapter is an essential public function.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15799.5 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 157 / Section 15799.5
Establishment and creation of municipal authorities.
Status: in_force

The county commissioners may acquire, hold, construct, improve, maintain and operate, own and lease, either in the capacity of lessor or lessee, general hospitals within the

county for the use, benefit, health, comfort, safety and general welfare of the residents of this Commonwealth and appropriate money from the county treasury for such purposes or may create a municipal authority under the former act of May 2, 1945 (P.L.382, No.164), known as the Municipal Authorities Act of 1945, and appropriate money to the municipal authority for any of the purposes under this section. Cross References. Section 15799.5 is referred to in section 15799.6 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16137 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 161 / Section 16137
Room or building for juvenile offenders awaiting trial.
Status: in_force

The county commissioners of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class shall provide, furnish and heat within the county a separate room or rooms or a suitable building to be used exclusively for the confinement of any and all alleged or adjudicated delinquent children or dependent children as defined in 42 Pa.C.S. § 6302 (relating to definitions) who may be in custody awaiting trial or hearing in the courts of the county, and provide for the maintenance and care of the children while in custody.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15905 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 159 / Section 15905
Joint operation and leasing.
Status: in_force

A county acquiring land for an airport purpose may operate and maintain airport facilities jointly with a municipal corporation or other political subdivision, upon terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between the authorities of the municipal corporation or other political subdivision and the county commissioners, and the joint airport facilities may be

operated and leased, as provided under this subchapter, upon the joint action of the authorities involved and the county commissioners.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14992 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 149 / Section 14992
Bonds of county held by commission.
Status: in_force

(a) Bonds generally.--The bonds of the county held by the sinking fund commission shall be stamped in a conspicuous manner to show that the bonds have been purchased for the sinking fund. The bonds may not be reissued or sold.

(b) Interest.--The sinking fund commission may not require the county to pay interest on any of the bonds held by the commission, unless the commission deems the payment of interest necessary for the purpose of having adequate money on hand to pay the bonds of the county as the bonds mature and become payable.

(c) Cancellation of bonds.--The bonds of the county held by the sinking fund commission shall be canceled immediately upon maturity.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16111 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 161 / Section 16111
Disposing of county property for other uses and demolition.
Status: in_force

(a) General rule.--If the county commissioners find that an existing county building is no longer suitable for its original purpose, or if the county has acquired or received an interest in real property which the county commissioners find is not suitable for the use of the county, the county commissioners may do any of the following:

(1) Devote the real property to another public purpose.

(2) Convey by sale or gift the real property to a public or charitable institution.

(3) Convey by sale or gift the real property to a political subdivision within the county.

(4) Demolish or relocate the building.

(b) Conveyance of real property.--For the purposes of this section, the county commissioners may convey, on behalf of the county, any interest in real property to one or more parties authorized by this section in single or concurrent ownership.

(c) Conveyance of personal property.--Notwithstanding
16 Pa.C.S. § 15766 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 157 / Section 15766
Provision for burial.
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided by law, the county commissioners of a county of the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class shall provide for the burial of an individual who dies in the county unless the individual's body is claimed by a relative by blood or marriage, a friend, a fraternal or veterans' organization, a charitable organization or the Department of Health, and is buried at the expense of the relative, friend or organization. Burial may not cost more than $300.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16105.1 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 161 / Section 16105.1
Acquiring and developing industrial areas.
Status: in_force

(a) General rule.--The county commissioners may purchase, accept by gift or devise real property within the county, including Federal surplus real property, for the purpose of developing the same for industrial use under a local, regional or county plan and to expend money to bring utilities within a county industrial area and to develop an area for industrial sites.

(b) Sale or lease of land.--A county may sell, or lease for a term not to exceed 99 years, to an industrial development

organization, with or without consideration, lands, easements or rights in land, together with any improvements, buildings or structures on the land owned by the county for the purpose of establishing or enlarging a commercial, industrial or manufacturing enterprise or research and development center within the county. In addition, the following shall apply:

(1) The industrial development organization shall be designated in the manner provided by Chapter 23 of the act of June 29, 1996 (P.L.434, No.67), known as the Job Enhancement Act.

(2) The county may make an agreement with an industrial development organization for the industrial development of the lands, easements or rights in lands.

(3) An instrument of sale, lease or other agreement made under this subsection may contain provisions regulating the uses of lands, buildings and structures for trade, industry, manufacture, research, residence, recreation, water supply, public activities or other purposes.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16139.2 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 161 / Section 16139.2
Room or building for juvenile offenders awaiting trial.
Status: in_force

The county commissioners shall provide, furnish and heat within the county a separate room or rooms or a suitable building to be used exclusively for the confinement of alleged or adjudicated delinquent children or dependent children as defined in 42 Pa.C.S. § 6302 (relating to definitions) who are in custody awaiting trial or hearing in the courts of the county, and provide for the maintenance and care of the children while in custody.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16501 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 165 / Section 16501
Acquisition of land and buildings for recreation places.
Status: in_force

(a) General rule.--The county commissioners may designate and set apart for use as recreation places, or for the enlarging or extending of recreation places, any lands or buildings owned by the county and not dedicated or devoted to other public use.

(b) Extension or enlargement of recreation places.--The county commissioners may acquire lands or buildings, by gift or purchase, or may lease lands for use as recreation places or for the extension or enlargement of recreation places.

(c) Private property.--The county commissioners may, in accordance with this part and 26 Pa.C.S. (relating to eminent domain):

(1) In counties of the second class A, acquire private property for the purpose of establishing, making, enlarging, extending, operating and maintaining public parks and multiuse recreational trails within the limits of the county.

(2) In counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth class, acquire private property by the power of eminent domain for use as, or the extension or enlargement of, recreation places.

(d) Limitation.--The power to acquire lands or buildings, by gift or purchase, may not extend beyond the limits of the particular county, except upon the consent of the adjoining county and municipal corporation which would be affected.

(e) Joint exercise of powers.--A county may exercise the powers granted in this part jointly with any political subdivision.
16 Pa.C.S. § 13917 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 139 / Section 13917
Requests for examinations and reports.
Status: in_force

(a) Requests.--A request for an examination or other professional service by another county or person may be complied with at the discretion of the coroner under guidelines established by the county commissioners.

(b) Fees and charges.--A fee and charge for an examination or professional service shall be established by the coroner, subject to approval by the county commissioners, and shall be

accounted for and paid to the county treasurer as provided under section 14960 (relating to receipts and accounts of money due county). Payment for an examination or professional service shall be the responsibility of the county or person requesting the service.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16911 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 169 / Section 16911
Interest on benefits assessed.
Status: in_force

All assessments for benefits shall bear interest at the expiration of 30 days after the assessments have been determined final and fixed and shall be payable to the treasurer of the county. Cross References. Section 16911 is referred to in sections 16907, 16912 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14962 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 149 / Section 14962
Depositories.
Status: in_force

(a) Designation.--The county commissioners and the county treasurer shall designate by resolution one or more depositories for county money. The depositories shall be banks, banking institutions or trust companies located in this Commonwealth.

(b) Collateral.--

(1) A depository designated under subsection (a) shall, upon receipt of notice of its designation, collateralize deposits of public money in accordance with the act of August 6, 1971 (P.L.281, No.72), entitled "An act standardizing the procedures for pledges of assets to secure deposits of public funds with banking institutions pursuant to other laws; establishing a standard rule for the types, amounts and valuations of assets eligible to be used as collateral for deposits of public funds; permitting assets to be pledged against deposits on a pooled basis; and authorizing the appointment of custodians to act as pledgees of assets," by pledging collateral in an account in the name of the county or utilizing a letter of credit from the Federal Home Loan Bank to secure public deposits in excess of Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insurance limits. The depository shall provide a monthly report within 15 days after the end of each month to the county commissioners in accordance with the reporting requirements under the act of August 6, 1971 (P.L.281, No.72), including the composition of the collateral and related market value.

(2) A county may elect to require that a depository pledge collateral in an account in the name of the county to collateralize deposits above the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insurance limit. These accounts may be in the custody of the depository's trust department or at a third-party financial institution. The arrangement with the depository may be governed by a written agreement, approved by the board of directors or loan committee of the depository, with approval reflected in the minutes of the board or committee, which are kept continuously as an official record of the depository. The agreement shall include all of the following if collateral is pledged instead of a Federal Home Loan Bank letter of credit:

(i) Collateral shall be marked to market daily.

(ii) Collateral shall be in investments as prescribed in the investment program provided by the board of investment or the county commissioners.

(iii) If the financial institution serves as the custodian, the pledged collateral shall be held in a separate account, established under the act of August 6, 1971 (P.L.281, No.72), in the depository's trust department.

(iv) The market value of the pledged collateral shall be at least 102% of the county deposits in excess of federally insured limits.

(v) A monthly report shall be provided as specified in paragraph (1).

(3) The depository may not be required to secure payment of deposits and interest insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

(c) Deposits.--The county treasurer shall, upon the designation of the depository, immediately transfer all county money to be deposited and shall thereafter keep deposits solely in the depository in the name of the county.

(d) Withdrawals.--Withdrawals from the depository shall be only drawn by the treasurer upon properly authorized checks or by other commercially accepted methods of electronic funds transfer that have been specifically approved by the county commissioners.

(e) Loss of county money.--No county commissioner or treasurer complying with this chapter, or their surety, may be charged with losses of county money caused by the failure or negligence of the depository.
16 Pa.C.S. § 12521 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 125 / Section 12521
Duties and powers of chief clerk.
Status: in_force

(a) Duties.--The chief clerk shall keep the books and accounts of the county commissioners, record and file the proceedings and papers of the county commissioners, attest all orders and voucher checks issued by the county commissioners and perform all other duties pertaining to the office of chief clerk.

(b) Oaths and affirmations.--The chief clerk shall have the power to administer oaths and affirmations pertaining to the business of the office of the county commissioners.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16986 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 169 / Section 16986
Snow fences.
Status: in_force

(a) Placement.--A county that is responsible for the maintenance of any road may enter upon private property adjacent to the road and place snow fences, at any point as may be necessary to within a limit of 100 feet from the right-of-way line of the road, in order to eliminate snow drifting on the traveled portion.

(b) Timeframe.--A snow fence, authorized under this section, may not be placed prior to November 1 nor shall the same remain in place after April 1 of the succeeding year, unless the written consent of the owner of the adjacent property is obtained, agreeing to an extension of time for the removal of the snow fence.

(c) Damages.--If the county responsible for the maintenance of the road is not able to enter into an agreement with the owner of adjacent property occupied by the snow fence as to the amount of damages sustained as a result of the fence being placed and removed, the owner may petition the court of the proper county for the appointment of viewers to ascertain the amount of damages incurred. The appointment of viewers and the procedure for viewing shall be governed by and be in accordance with this part, as provided for eminent domain proceedings. Damages, if any, if ascertained, shall be paid by the county responsible for the maintenance of the road, and any money available to the county for the construction and maintenance of roads under the county's supervision shall be available for the payment of damages.
16 Pa.C.S. § 17133 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 171 / Section 17133
Purposes and powers.
Status: in_force

(a) Purposes.--The purpose of the authority includes, but is not limited to, the following:

(1) Supporting and financing the construction of regional destination facilities.

(2) Assuring the efficient and effective operation and development of regional destination facilities.

(3) Supporting and financing the construction of other economic development projects.

(b) Powers.--Subject to the limitations under subsection

(d), the authority is granted all powers necessary or convenient to carry out the authority's purposes, including to:

(1) Have continuing succession.

(2) Sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, complain and defend in all courts.

(3) Adopt, use and alter at will a corporate seal.

(4) Acquire by gift or otherwise, purchase, hold, receive, lease, sublease and use any license, franchise or property, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, or any interest therein, including a regional destination facility or parts of the facility.

(5) Sell, transfer or dispose of any property or interest therein for adequate and fair consideration.

(6) Acquire, hold, develop, construct, maintain, manage, operate, repair, own, lease or sublease a regional destination facility or parts of the facility and projects funded from the Regional Growth Fund.

(7) Make, enter into and award contracts with any person for the development, financing, construction, maintenance, operation and repair of regional destination facilities or parts of the facility and projects funded from the Regional Growth Fund.

(8) Conduct financial and performance reviews and audits of regional destination facilities and projects funded from the Regional Growth Fund.

(9) Conduct long-term planning necessary for the efficient and effective operation and development of regional destination facilities and projects funded from the Regional Growth Fund.

(10) Make bylaws for the regulation of the authority's affairs and promulgate rules, regulations and policies in connection with the performance of the authority's functions and duties.

(11)

(i) Borrow money for the purpose of paying the costs of any project and to evidence such borrowing in any customary and appropriate fashion.

(ii) Make and issue taxable or tax-exempt negotiable bonds of the authority and secure the payment of the bonds or any part of the bonds by pledge or deed of trust of all or any of its revenues, rentals, receipts and contract rights.

(iii) Make agreements with the purchasers or holders of the bonds or with other obligees of the authority in connection with any bonds, whether issued or to be issued, as the authority shall deem advisable, which agreements shall constitute contracts with the holders or purchasers.

(iv) Obtain credit enhancement or liquidity facilities in connection with any bonds as the authority shall determine to be advantageous.

(v) Provide, in general, for the security for the bonds and for the rights of the holders of the bonds.

(12) Make, enter into and award contracts and to execute all instruments necessary or convenient for the carrying out of its business.

(13) Borrow money and accept grants and to enter into contracts, leases, subleases, licenses or other transactions with any Federal agency, State public body, political subdivision or person.

(14) Mortgage, pledge, hypothecate or otherwise encumber any of its property, real, personal or mixed, tangible or intangible, and its revenues or receipts, including any tax revenues or interest the authority may have in any lease or sublease of regional destination facilities or parts of regional destination facilities.

(15) Procure insurance containing coverage, including, without limitation, insurance covering the timely payment in full of principal and interest on bonds of the authority, in the amounts and from the insurers the authority may determine to be necessary or desirable for its purposes.

(16) Invest authority money.

(17) Cooperate with any Federal agency, State public body or political subdivision.

(18) Invest money not required for immediate disbursement in reserve or sinking funds.

(19) Appoint all officers, agents and employees required for the performance of its duties and fix and determine their qualifications, duties and compensation and to retain or employ other agents or consultants.

(20) Enroll authority employees in a retirement system, including an existing retirement system of a participating county or any other governmental entity located within a participating county.

(21) Appoint and fix the compensation of chief counsel and assistant counsel, who may not be required to be employees of the authority, to provide it with legal assistance. Notwithstanding 42 Pa.C.S. § 8525 (relating to legal assistance), the authority through its counsel shall defend actions brought against the authority and its officers and employees when acting within the scope of their official duties.

(22) Do all acts and things necessary or convenient for the promotion of its purposes and the general welfare of the authority and to carry out the powers granted to the authority under this chapter or any other law.

(c) Eminent domain.--The authority, upon making a finding that it is necessary or convenient to acquire any real or personal property in the central city for immediate or future use for purposes related to the construction of regional destination facilities or related developments, may acquire property by the exercise of the power of eminent domain under 26 Pa.C.S. (relating to eminent domain), and for those purposes shall have the power of eminent domain. The authority may use its eminent domain power to acquire property already devoted to a public use, except that the power may not be used to acquire property owned or used by the Commonwealth. The board may not exercise the authority's eminent domain power without the approval of the mayor of the central city and the members of the board appointed under section 17132(b)(1) and (3) (relating to board of authority).

(d) Operations.--Notwithstanding any purpose of the authority or a general or specific power granted by this chapter or any other law, whether express or implied, the following limitations and conditions shall apply to the operations of the authority:

(1) The authority shall have no power to pledge the credit or taxing powers of the Commonwealth or any other government agency, except the credit of the authority, nor shall any of the bonds of the authority be deemed a debt or liability of the Commonwealth or of any other government agency, except as otherwise agreed by the Commonwealth or a government agency.

(2) Neither the Commonwealth nor any government agency, except the authority, shall be liable for payment of the principal or maturity value of or interest or premium on any of the bonds of the authority, except as otherwise agreed by the Commonwealth or a government agency.

(3) Notwithstanding any provision of this chapter or any other act to the contrary or of any implication that may be drawn from this chapter or any other law, the Commonwealth and all other government agencies, except the authority, shall have no legal or moral obligation for the payment of any expenses or obligations of the authority, including, but not limited to, bond principal and interest, the funding or refunding of any reserve and any administrative or operating expenses whatsoever, except as otherwise agreed to by the Commonwealth or another government agency.

(4) Bonds of the authority shall contain a prominent statement of the limitations set forth in this subsection and a further statement to the effect that obligees of the authority shall have no recourse, either legal or moral, to the Commonwealth or to any other government agency for payment of the bonds, except as otherwise agreed to by the Commonwealth or another government agency.

(5) The authority may not assume the responsibility of employing personnel directly engaged in the operation of regional destination facilities described in paragraphs (1) and (4) of the definition of "regional destination facility" but may enter into contracts for the operation, maintenance and ongoing improvement of those facilities with public and private organizations that have expertise in operating the type of facility involved.

(6) The authority may not operate, maintain or, after the completion of initial construction, design or perform subsequent improvements to the baseball park or football stadium but shall contract for the performance of those functions with the principal tenant of each of those facilities.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15771 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 157 / Section 15771
Reports of individuals applying for treatment of disease.
Status: in_force

(a) General rule.--Each county of the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class shall make a record of all personal and statistical particulars related to the inmates in the county's institutions, as directed by the Department of Health, for statistical purposes.

(b) Future admissions.--The county shall make a record for all future inmates at the time of the inmate's admission.

(c) Requirement.--For a dependent admitted or committed for medical treatment of disease, the physician in charge shall specify in the record the nature of the disease and where, in the physician's opinion, the disease was contracted.

(d) Acquisition of information.--The information required by this section shall be obtained from the individual dependent, if it is practicable to do so. If the information cannot be obtained from the dependent, the information shall be secured in as complete a manner as possible from the relatives, friends or other persons acquainted with the facts of the disease.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14705 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 147 / Section 14705
Officers to be paid salaries.
Status: in_force

Each county officer and their deputies and clerks shall be paid for services rendered by fixed and specific salaries as follows:

(1) The salaries of each officer, deputy and clerk shall be paid out of the treasury of the county which the officer, deputy or clerk serve to the extent that the fees collected and paid in by each officer respectively or earned if fees are chargeable upon the county treasury, except as provided in section 14708 (relating to payment of certain officers).

(2) The salaries shall be paid weekly, biweekly, semimonthly or monthly during the month in which the services were rendered, at the discretion of the county commissioners.

(3) A voucher check or warrant may not be drawn for the payment of an officer, deputy or clerk who has not filed the receipt and transcript for the month as provided under this subchapter.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14927 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 149 / Section 14927
Refusal to obey subpoena or submit to examination.
Status: in_force

A person commits a misdemeanor for any of the following:

(1) Refusing to appear or produce documents after being served a subpoena in accordance with this chapter.

(2) After appearing before the controller or auditors for examination, refusing to take oath or affirmation.

(3) After having been sworn or affirmed, refusing to answer questions of the controller or auditors relating to the public accounts or the official conduct of public officers.
16 Pa.C.S. § 505 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 5 / Section 505
Authority to fix undetermined county line.
Status: in_force

(a) Recommendations.--If the boundary commission cannot determine, ascertain or locate the existing county line, the commission shall report to the court of common pleas with a recommendation that a new county line be established in whole or in part.

(b) Establishing new lines.--If the court deems establishment of a new line necessary, the court shall direct the boundary commission to fix and determine a new county line, to mark the new county line with permanent monuments and to prepare a report in accordance with section 506 (relating to report of boundary commission, approval by court and certification of line).
16 Pa.C.S. § 16510 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 165 / Section 16510
Damages, forfeiture of leases and penalties.
Status: in_force

(a) Liability for violation.--A person violating any rules and regulations adopted for recreation places shall be liable to the full extent of any damage committed by that person, in trespass or other action, and a tenant or licensed party who violates any rule and regulation, or consent to or permit the same to be violated on the premises, shall forfeit the lease or license and may be removed by a vote of the county commissioners. Every lease and license shall contain a clause stating that it shall be cause for forfeiture for a lessee or licensed party to violate or permit or suffer any violation of any rules and regulations.

(b) Specific offense.--In counties of the second class A, the violation of any rules or regulations of the county commissioners for the government of public parks shall constitute a summary offense.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16956 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 169 / Section 16956
Municipal streets connecting two ends of county road.
Status: in_force

If a city or borough intervenes between two ends of a county road and the municipal corporation has failed to properly improve the municipal streets constituting the shortest and most reasonable route through the municipal corporation that will connect the two ends of the county road, the board of commissioners may contract with the governing body of the municipal corporation to improve the shortest and most reasonable route connecting the two ends of the highway. Cross References. Section 16956 is referred to in section 16958 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 17343 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 173 / Section 17343
Money of authority.
Status: in_force

(a) Payment of money.--All money of the authority shall be paid to the treasurer of the authority or other officer or officers of the authority as the authority may designate.

(b) Duty of board.--The board shall invest authority money consistent with sound business practice.

(c) Investment program.--The board shall provide for an investment program subject to restrictions contained in this subchapter, in any other applicable statute and in rules and regulations adopted by the board.

(d) Authorized investments.--The following shall apply:

(1) Authorized types of investments for authority money shall be:

(i) Direct obligations of or obligations guaranteed by the United States.

(ii) A bond, debenture, note, participation certificate or other similar obligation issued by any one or combination of the following agencies:

(A) Government National Mortgage Corporation.

(B) Federal Land Banks.

(C) Federal Home Loan Banks.

(D) Federal Intermediate Credit Banks.

(E) Banks for Cooperatives.

(F) Tennessee Valley Authority.

(G) United States Postal Service.

(H) Farmers Home Administration.

(I) Student Loan Marketing Association.

(J) Export-Import Bank of the United States.

(iii) A bond, debenture, note, participation certificate or other similar obligation issued by the Federal National Mortgage Corporation to the extent the obligations are guaranteed by the Government National Mortgage Corporation or issued by another Federal agency and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States.

(iv) Deposits in interest-bearing time deposits, demand deposits or certificates of deposit fully insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or its successors or the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation or its successors or fully secured by any of the obligations described in this paragraph to the extent not so insured.

(v) Repurchase agreements relating to, or investment agreements secured by or providing for the acquisition of and, if applicable, resale of, obligations described in subparagraphs (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) or obligations of the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation or the Federal National Mortgage Association with:

(A) banks or trust companies, which may include a banking entity or depository;

(B) brokers or broker-dealers registered under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (48 Stat. 881, 15 U.S.C. §§ 78a-78jj) acceptable to the authority; or

(C) insurance companies rated A+ or better by Best's and having a net capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000 or certificates of deposit with banks or trust companies fully secured as to principal and accrued interest by obligations described in subparagraphs (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) deposited with or subject to the control of the authority.

(vi) Money market deposit accounts of banks or trust companies having a net capital and surplus of at least $25,000,000, which may include a banking entity or depository.

(2) The description of authorized investments as set forth in paragraph (1)(v) and (vi) shall be met only if the agreements referenced provide for the repayment of the principal amount invested at an amount not less than the amount invested. If a security is required as set forth in paragraph (1)(iv), (v) and (vi), the security shall be deposited with the treasurer of the authority or be held by a trustee or agent satisfactory to the authority. Money of the authority shall be paid out on the warrant or other order of the chairperson of the authority or of other individuals as the authority may authorize to execute warrants or orders.

(e) Reports.--The following shall apply:

(1) An authority created under this subchapter shall file an annual report with the Department of Community and Economic Development and with the county and political subdivision constituting the county seat, which shall make provisions for the accounting of revenues and expenses. Authority books, accounts and records shall be audited annually in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards by an independent auditor who shall be a certified public accountant, and a copy of the audit report shall be attached to and be made a part of the annual report. A concise financial statement shall be published annually in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the authority is located.

(2) An authority created under this subchapter shall, upon request by the county or the political subdivision constituting the county seat, file a report with the requesting entity listing the names of authority employees and the amount of compensation received by each employee, the names of authority independent contractors and the amount of remuneration received by the employees and the names of any providers of professional services and the value of the contracts for professional services.

(f) Right of examination.--The Attorney General, Auditor General, Secretary of the Budget, the chairperson and minority chairperson of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate and the chairperson and minority chairperson of the Appropriations Committee of the House of Representatives shall have the right to examine the books, accounts and records of the authority. Cross References. Section 17343 is referred to in section 17335 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14901.1 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 149 / Section 14901.1
Billing and collection of third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class county taxes.
Status: in_force

(a) County institution district taxes.--The county commissioners of each county of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class may, by resolution, provide for the billing and collecting of all county and county institution district taxes levied within a third class city and may, in the resolution, vest the county treasurer with the duties and responsibilities of billing and collecting all the taxes. The resolution shall be adopted by the county, and the city treasurer shall be notified of adoption of the resolution no later than the first day for the circulation of nomination petitions for the office of tax collector within the county and shall take effect upon the first day of the next succeeding term of office of tax collector following adoption of the resolution.

(b) County taxes.--The county commissioners of each county of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class may, by resolution, provide for the billing and collection of all county taxes in municipalities existing or organized under 53 Pa.C.S. Pt. III Subpt. E (relating to home rule and optional plan government) or under the former act of April 13, 1972 (P.L.184, No.62), known as the Home Rule Charter and Optional Plans Law, that have eliminated the elective office of tax collector, by the authorities empowered to levy those taxes, and by resolution, vest in the county treasurer the duties and responsibilities of billing and collecting county taxes in those municipalities.

(c) Vacancy in office.--Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, if, as a result of a vacancy in the office of elected tax collector in a municipality within a county of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth class, an employee or paid official of the municipality is appointed or directed by the governing body of the municipality to assume the duties of tax collector, the county commissioners may, by resolution, provide, until a successor tax collector is elected in accordance with law, for the following:

(1) the county treasurer to have the duties and responsibilities of billing and collecting all county and

county institution district taxes levied within the municipality;

(2) payment to the municipality, rather than the employee or paid official appointed or directed by the governing body of the municipality to assume the duties of tax collector, the compensation that otherwise would be attributable to the billing and collecting of county and county institution district taxes levied within the municipality; or

(3) an agreement with the tax collector in an adjoining or conveniently located municipality to assume the duties of the tax collector and receive the compensation that otherwise would be attributable to the billing and collecting of county and county institution district taxes levied within the municipality.

(d) Duties passing to county treasurer.--Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, if, as a result of a vacancy in the office of elected tax collector in a municipality, the county treasurer is appointed or directed by the county commissioners to bill and collect all county and county institution district taxes within the municipality, the governing body of the municipality and the county commissioners may, by agreement, provide that the county treasurer shall have the duties and responsibilities of billing and collecting all taxes levied by the municipality in accordance with section 4.4 of the act of May 25, 1945 (P.L.1050, No.394), known as the Local Tax Collection Law.

(e) Appointment of other employees.--The county commissioners may appoint other employees as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.

(f) Compensation.--

(1) Except as otherwise provided in the Local Tax Collection Law, the compensation of personnel and other expenses of billing and collecting county and county institution district taxes under this section shall be paid out of the general fund in the county treasury.

(2) Except for the county treasurer, the compensation and number of employees shall be governed by Chapter 147 (relating to fees of salaried county officers and salary boards).

(3) If the county treasurer is designated as the collector of the county and county institution district taxes, the county treasurer may not receive added compensation for performing these functions.

(g) Treasurer.--The county treasurer shall be governed by the Local Tax Collection Law.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15763 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 157 / Section 15763
Powers and duties.
Status: in_force

The county commissioners of counties of the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class shall have the power and their duty shall be to:

(1) Erect, equip, maintain, repair, alter and add to institutions for the care of dependents. A plan for the erection or substantial alteration of an institution must be approved as to suitability by the Department of Human Services.

(2) Pay the necessary expenses of land and buildings for the care of dependents and farms.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16504 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 165 / Section 16504
Officers of board.
Status: in_force

The members of a fair board, park board or recreation board shall elect a chairperson and secretary and select all other necessary officers to serve for a period of one year and may, with the consent and approval of the county commissioners,

employ individuals as needed under this chapter. The boards shall have the power to adopt rules and regulations for the conduct of all business within their jurisdiction.
16 Pa.C.S. § 12310 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 123 / Section 12310
Information to heads of governmental departments.
Status: in_force

(a) Duty.--

(1) Upon application by the head of a State agency, each county officer shall furnish information and copies of records or documents contained in the respective offices as the head of the agency determines may be necessary or pertinent to the work of the department.

(2) The county furnishing information under paragraph

(1) shall receive reasonable compensation as may be determined by the Auditor General. The compensation shall be paid to the county by the State Treasurer, out of money not otherwise appropriated, upon warrant from the Auditor General.

(b) Department of Community and Economic Development.--Each county officer shall furnish to the Department of Community and Economic Development any information requested by the Department of Community and Economic Development.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15396 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 153 / Section 15396
Appropriations for legal aid services.
Status: in_force

The county commissioners may appropriate money for payment to nonprofit legal aid associations or societies or county bar associations that provide legal aid services for indigent persons in civil matters in the county.
16 Pa.C.S. § 12705 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 127 / Section 12705
Establishment of office of controller in counties of sixth, seventh and eighth classes.
Status: in_force

(a) Authorization.--The office of controller may be established in a county of the sixth, seventh and eighth class by the affirmative vote of a majority of the electors of the

county voting on the question submitted, in accordance with this section, at the general election when the auditor of the county is in the third year of the auditor's term.

(b) Petition.--The question shall be submitted to the electors of the county when county electors file a petition containing signatures equal to at least 5% of the highest vote cast for an office in the county at the last preceding general election. The petition shall be filed with the county commissioners no less than 60 days before the day of the general election when the question is to be submitted. If the petition is sufficiently signed under this subsection, the county commissioners shall cause the question to be submitted in the manner provided by the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320), known as the Pennsylvania Election Code.

(c) Establishment.--If the majority of electors voting on the question vote in favor of establishing the office of county controller, the office shall be established. At the next municipal election and every four years thereafter, the electors of the county shall choose a resident of the county for the office of controller as a replacement for the county auditors. Cross References. Section 12705 is referred to in section 12706 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 13704 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 137 / Section 13704
Real estate deputies.
Status: in_force

The sheriff may appoint a real estate deputy to administer all matters relating to the sheriff's sales of real estate and distributions of the proceeds of the sheriff's sales of real

estate. The real estate deputy's appointment shall be made and be revocable as provided for the chief deputy. The real estate deputy may perform all duties incumbent upon the sheriff in the same manner as the chief deputy and the same effect in law as if the official duties had been performed by the sheriff in person. The duties shall include the execution and acknowledgment of sheriff's deeds for real estate upon receipt of the purchase price for the real estate. Nothing in this section shall operate to relieve the sheriff or the sheriff's sureties from liability upon official bond of the sheriff or the sheriff's sureties.
16 Pa.C.S. § 17323 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 173 / Section 17323
Hotel room rental tax.
Status: in_force

(a) Imposition.--The county in which a convention center is located may impose an excise tax on the consideration received by each operator of a hotel within the market area from each transaction of renting a room or rooms to accommodate transients. The tax shall be collected by the operator from the patron of the room and paid over to the county under subsection

(e) and shall be known as the Hotel Room Rental Tax.

(b) Rate.--The rate of tax imposed under this section by the county in which the convention center is located may not exceed 5%.

(c) Deposit.--Eighty percent of revenues received from taxes imposed under this section shall be annually deposited in the special fund required under subsection (d) for the use of the authority for convention center purposes. Twenty percent of the revenues received from taxes imposed under this section shall be deposited within 30 days of collection into the tourist promotion agency fund required under subsection (d) until disbursed as provided below.

(d) Collection.--The following shall apply:

(1) The treasurer of each county electing to impose the tax authorized under this section is directed to collect the tax and:

(i) to deposit 80% of the revenues received from the tax in special funds established for purposes in this section; and

(ii) to deposit 20% of the revenues received by the tax in the tourist promotion agency fund until disbursed under subsection (g).

(2) Interest on money deposited in the funds shall accrue proportionately to the respective funds as provided in this section. The treasurer may establish rules and regulations concerning the collection of the tax, which collection shall occur not more than monthly nor less than quarterly.

(e) Expenditures.--Expenditures from the fund established under subsection (d) for the authority shall be used by the authority for the following purposes:

(1) Projected annual debt service or lease payments of the convention center authority.

(2) Costs associated with financing, constructing, improving, maintaining, furnishing, fixturing and equipping the convention center.

(3) Costs associated with the development of the convention center, including design, engineering and feasibility costs.

(4) Costs associated with the operation and management of the convention center.

(5) Costs associated with promoting, marketing and encouraging the use of the convention center.

(6) General purposes of the convention center.

(f) Security.--If and to the extent that the authority pledges its share of the proceeds of the tax authorized by this section as security for the payment of bonds issued by the authority for convention center purposes, the Commonwealth pledges to and agrees with any person, firm or corporation subscribing to or acquiring bonds to be issued by the authority for convention center purposes that the Commonwealth will not, nor will it authorize a county to, reduce the rate of tax imposed for convention center purposes until all bonds secured by the pledge of the authority, together with interest, are fully met and discharged.

(g) Tourist promotion agency.--

(1) If default has not occurred or is continuing with respect to any bonds, notes or other indebtedness of an authority incurred to finance the construction of a convention center, revenues received from the tax deposited into the tourist promotion agency fund required under subsection (d) shall be disbursed by each county to the tourist promotion agency within 10 days of receipt.

(2) The county shall have no obligation to invest any money deposited into the tourist promotion agency fund.

(h) Tax year.--Each tax year for any tax imposed under this section shall run concurrently with the county's fiscal year.

(i) Report.--An audited report on the income and expenditures incurred by a tourist promotion agency receiving revenue from the tax authorized under this section shall be submitted annually by the tourist promotion agency to the county commissioners.

(j) Expiration.--The tax levied under this section shall expire when all bonds issued by a county under this subchapter have been fully met and discharged.

(k) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Consideration." Receipts, fees, charges, rentals, leases, cash, credits, property of any kind or nature or other payment received by operators in exchange for or in consideration of the use or occupancy by a transient of a room or rooms in a hotel for a temporary period.

"Convention center."

(1) Any land, improvement, structure, building or property interest, whether owned by or leased by or to or otherwise acquired by an existing authority, appropriate for any of the following:

(i) Large public assemblies.

(ii) Holding of conventions, conferences, trade exhibitions and other business.

(iii) Social, cultural, scientific and public interest events.

(2) All facilities, furniture, fixtures and equipment necessary or incident to any item listed in paragraph (1), including meeting rooms, dining rooms, kitchens, ballrooms, reception areas, registration and prefunction areas, truck loading areas, including access, accessways, common areas, lobbies, offices and areas appurtenant to any of the preceding, together referred to as the main convention area, and also including other buildings, structures or facilities for use in conjunction with the foregoing, including, but not limited to, provisions for off-street parking, retail areas and other improvements related to the center owned by or leased by or to an existing authority for the purpose of producing revenues to assist in defraying the costs or expenses of the convention center.

"Hotel." As follows:

(1) A hotel, motel, inn, guest house or other building located within the market area which holds itself out by any means, including advertising, license, registration with an innkeeper's group, convention listing association, travel publication or similar association or with a government agency, as being available to provide overnight lodging or use of facility space for consideration to persons seeking temporary accommodation. The term includes:

(i) A place which advertises to the general public or a segment of the general public that it will provide beds, sanitary facilities or other space for a temporary period to members of the general public.

(ii) A place recognized as a hostelry, provided that portions of a facility which are devoted to persons who have established permanent residence shall not be included in this definition.

(2) The term does not include a bed and breakfast homestead or inn as defined in 3 Pa.C.S. § 5702 (relating to definitions).

"Market area." As follows:

(1) With respect to a county in which there is more than one city of the third class, the entire county.

(2) With respect to a county in which there is only one city of the third class, one of the following:

(i) The city and the area within the county which is not more than 15 miles from the site of the convention center.

(ii) The city and the area within the county which, as determined by the board of county commissioners imposing the tax, derives a material benefit from the existence of the convention center within the county. The owner of a hotel affected by a determination by the board under this subparagraph may challenge the determination by filing a petition in the court of common pleas in the judicial district in which the determination was made.

"Occupancy." The use or possession, or the right to the use or possession, by an individual other than a permanent resident of a room in a hotel for any purpose or the right to the use or possession of the furnishings or to the services accompanying the use and possession of the room.

"Operator." Any individual, partnership, nonprofit or profit-making association or corporation or other person or group of persons that maintain, operate, manage, own, have custody of or otherwise possess the right to rent or lease overnight accommodations in a hotel to the public for consideration.

"Patron." An individual who pays the consideration for the occupancy of a room or rooms in a hotel.

"Permanent resident." An individual who has occupied or has the right to occupy a room or rooms in a hotel as a patron or otherwise for a period exceeding 30 consecutive days.

"Room." A space in a hotel set aside for use and occupancy by patrons, or otherwise, for consideration, having at least one bed or other sleeping accommodations provided therein.

"Temporary." A period of time not exceeding 30 consecutive days.

"Tourist promotion agency." The agency designated by the governing body of a county or county seat in which the convention center is located to be eligible for grants from the Department of Community and Economic Development under the act of July 4, 2008 (P.L.621, No.50), known as the Tourism Promotion Act.

"Transaction." The activity involving the obtaining by a transient or patron of the use or occupancy of a hotel room from which consideration emanates to the operator under an express or implied contract.

"Transient." An individual who obtains an accommodation in any hotel by means of registering at the facility for the

temporary occupancy of a room for the personal use of that individual by paying to the operator of the facility a fee. Cross References. Section 17323 is referred to in section 17302 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 102.1 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 1 / Section 102.1
Definitions.
Status: in_force

The following words and phrases when used in this title shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"County Code." The former act of August 9, 1955 (P.L.323, No.130), known as The County Code.

"Municipal corporation." A city, borough, incorporated town, township of the first or second class or a home rule or optional charter municipality other than a county.

"Municipality." A municipal corporation or county.

"Recreation places." The term includes public parks, parkways, bridle paths, horse show rings, footpaths, playgrounds, playfields, gymnasiums, public baths, swimming pools, agricultural fairgrounds or other indoor or outdoor recreation centers.

"Street." A street, road, lane, court, cul-de-sac, alley, public way or public square.
16 Pa.C.S. § 1122 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 11 / Section 1122
Definitions.
Status: in_force

The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Additional coverage." Insurance that covers each county at a minimum for the loss of money or property through robbery, burglary and larceny committed by parties other than officers or employees required to receive or hold money.

"Blanket bond." Security coverage in the form of a bond for county officers and employees as follows:

(1) for county officers and employees as a comprehensive group;

(2) for a group of named county officers and employees; or

(3) for county officers and employees in scheduled positions.

"Bond." Security coverage under which a surety guarantees the performance of a duty by a county officer or employee in compliance with this subchapter.

"County." A county of the second class, second class A, third class, fourth class, fifth class, sixth class, seventh class or eighth class, including counties of these classes which have adopted or may adopt a home rule charter or an optional plan.

"County officers and employees." Elected and appointed county officials, deputies and other appointees of county elected and appointed officials and county employees, whether acting on behalf of the county or as agents of a Commonwealth agency or a governing authority, who are required to receive, account for or hold any money or property by virtue of their office or employment.

"Crime-fidelity insurance." Insurance that is endorsed with faithful performance of duty coverage and which insures, at a minimum, against events of loss of money or other property resulting from one or more fraudulent or dishonest acts, including, but not limited to, embezzlement, theft, forgery, similar acts of dishonesty or fraud by a county officer or employee acting alone or in collusion with others, or from a breach of fiduciary duty or a failure of a county officer or employee to perform faithfully the officer's or employee's duties or to account properly for all money and property received or held by virtue of the officer's or employee's office or employment.

"Governing authority." Includes:

(1) The Supreme Court.

(2) Any agency or unit of the unified judicial system exercising a power or performing a duty under 42 Pa.C.S. § 1721 (relating to delegation of powers).

"Governing body." The county board of commissioners or the body vested with the legislative authority of the county in counties which have adopted a home rule charter or an optional plan.

"Home rule charter." A charter adopted under 53 Pa.C.S. Pt. III Subpt. E (relating to home rule and optional plan government) or its predecessor, the former act of April 13, 1972 (P.L.184, No.62), known as the Home Rule Charter and Optional Plans Law, or Article XXXI-C of the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), known as the Second Class County Code.

"Money." Coin or currency of the United States or of any other country, travelers checks, personal checks, bank checks and bank notes in current use and having a face value, money orders and securities.

"Official security." Security on behalf of a county officer to provide protection from events of loss or misconduct when the officer fails to faithfully perform the duties of the office.

"Optional plan." An optional plan adopted under 53 Pa.C.S. Pt. III Subpt. E (relating to home rule and optional plan government) or its predecessor, the former act of April 13, 1972 (P.L.184, No.62), known as the Home Rule Charter and Optional Plans Law.

"Required security." Security coverage and additional coverage provided in compliance with this subchapter.

"Securities." All negotiable and nonnegotiable instruments or contracts representing either money or other property, including revenue and other stamps in current use, tokens and

tickets and evidences of debt issued in connection with credit or charge cards, which cards are not issued by the county.

"Security coverage." A bond, a blanket bond or a crime-fidelity insurance policy, which is endorsed with faithful performance of duty coverage, provided in compliance with this subchapter for the purpose of protecting against the loss of money and other property sustained as a result of one or more fraudulent or dishonest acts, including, but not limited to, embezzlement, theft, forgery, similar acts of dishonesty or fraud by a county officer or employee acting alone or in collusion with others, or from a breach of fiduciary duty or a failure of a county officer or employee to perform faithfully the officer's or employee's duties or to account properly for all money and property received by virtue of the officer's or employee's position or employment.
16 Pa.C.S. § 13918 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 139 / Section 13918
Coroner's investigation.
Status: in_force

(a) Duties.--The coroner having a view of the body shall investigate the facts and circumstances concerning a death that appears to have happened within the county, notwithstanding where the cause of the death may have occurred, for the purpose of determining if an autopsy or inquest should be conducted in the following cases:

(1) A sudden death not caused by a readily recognizable disease or, if the cause of death cannot be properly certified, by a physician on the basis of prior recent medical attendance.

(2) A death occurring under suspicious circumstances, including if alcohol, a drug or another toxic substance may have had a direct bearing on the outcome.

(3) A death occurring as a result of violence or trauma, whether apparently homicidal, suicidal or accidental, including a death due to mechanical, thermal, chemical, electrical or radiational injury, drowning, cave-in or subsidence.

(4) A death in which trauma, chemical injury, drug overdose or reaction to a drug or medication or medical treatment was a primary or secondary, direct or indirect, contributory, aggravating or precipitating cause of death.

(5) A perioperative death in which the death is not readily explainable on the basis of prior disease.

(6) A death in which the body is unidentified or unclaimed.

(7) A death known or suspected to be due to contagious disease and constituting a public hazard.

(8) A death occurring in prison or a penal institution or while in the custody of the police.

(9) A death of an individual whose body is to be cremated, buried at sea or otherwise disposed of so as to be unavailable for examination.

(10) A sudden and unexplained infant death.

(11) A stillbirth.

(b) Purpose.--The purpose of an investigation under subsection (a) shall be to determine all of the following:

(1) The cause and manner of the death.

(2) If there is sufficient reason for the coroner to believe that the death may have resulted from a criminal act or criminal neglect of an individual other than the deceased.

(c) Requirements.--As part of an investigation under subsection (a), the coroner shall determine the identity of the deceased and notify the next of kin of the deceased.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15399c — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 153 / Section 15399c
Appropriations for reservoirs and water resources.
Status: in_force

(a) Facilities.--

(1) The county commissioners may borrow, appropriate and expend money for the construction, acquisition by purchase, lease or otherwise, operation and maintenance of dams, reservoirs, wells and other facilities for the utilization of surface, subsurface and groundwater resources and all related structures, appurtenances and equipment necessary for the use of dams, reservoirs, wells and other facilities.

(2) The county commissioners may acquire by purchase, lease, gift or the exercise of power of eminent domain, sites for a facility listed under paragraph (1) in accordance with the following:

(i) The county commissioners shall obtain a permit from the Department of Environmental Protection whenever a permit is required by law.

(ii) The county commissioners may not acquire by the exercise of power of eminent domain the property of a public utility subject to the jurisdiction of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission.

(b) Agreements and contracts.--The county commissioners may enter into:

(1) agreements for the regulation of withdrawals, diversions and sales of waters from dams, reservoirs, wells and other facilities, subject to the approval of Federal, State or interstate agencies which may have primary jurisdiction over water resources. Dams, wells and reservoirs acquired by purchase, lease or otherwise or constructed by the county commissioners may not be used for the generation of electric energy; and

(2) contracts or long-range cooperative programs with Federal, State, interstate and local government agencies or public utilities for the development and use of the county's water resources.

(c) Regulation of agreements and contracts.--

(1) It shall be lawful for any county to execute agreements and contracts as deemed necessary or advisable with an authority organized by the county to:

(i) provide, design, acquire, hold, construct, improve, own, lease, as lessor or lessee, maintain and operate dams, reservoirs, wells and other facilities for the utilization of surface, subsurface and groundwater resources and all necessary related structures, appurtenances and equipment;

(ii) grant, convey, lease, transfer, encumber, mortgage and pledge to the authority the dams, reservoirs, wells and related facilities and any improvements and additions; and

(iii) assign and pledge to the authority rentals, rates and charges charged and collected by the authority and to assign to the authority the power to collect the the rentals, rates and charges.

(2) An agreement, contract, grant, conveyance, lease, assignment, encumbrance, mortgage or pledge under paragraph

(1) shall not be construed to prevent the affected county from using tax revenues for the purpose of maintaining, repairing, altering, inspecting or improving the dams, reservoirs, wells and related facilities.

(d) Sale of water.--A county may enter into an agreement and contract for the sale of water to a municipality, authority or public utility at a reasonable and uniform rate to be determined exclusively by the county.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15701 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 157 / Section 15701
Health work.
Status: in_force

The county commissioners may provide and annually appropriate from money in the county treasury not otherwise appropriated an amount deemed necessary for the protection of the health, cleanliness, convenience, comfort and safety of the people of the county.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16734 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 167 / Section 16734
Closing, vacating, abandoning and removing county bridges.
Status: in_force

If it appears to the county commissioners that any county bridge, including any destroyed or partially destroyed bridge, has become burdensome and is no longer necessary for the accommodation of public travel, the county commissioners may close, vacate, abandon and remove the bridge.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16139.3 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 161 / Section 16139.3
Management of houses for detention of juveniles and appointment of board and ex officio members.
Status: in_force

(a) Board of managers.--The management of houses for the detention and reception of juveniles awaiting trial, hearing or judicial investigation under the laws of this Commonwealth shall be in a board of managers consisting of the following members:

(1) Three county commissioners.

(2) The county controller.

(3) Six private citizens to be appointed as follows:

(i) Three to be appointed by the president judge of the court of common pleas.

(ii) Three to be appointed by the chairperson of the county commissioners.

(b) Designees.--The county commissioners and the controller may appoint individuals to act as designees for the purpose of attending meetings of the board, and the designees shall have the right to vote at the meetings.

(c) Private citizen members.--The private citizen members of the board may not be officers or employees of the county.

(d) Existing boards of managers.--The members of the board of managers existing in the county shall remain as members of the board or boards of managers created in this subchapter until the expiration of the terms to which the members were appointed. Annually thereafter, the members or successors shall be appointed for a term of three years.

(e) Vacancies.--Vacancies occurring in the membership of the board shall be filled for the unexpired term by the chairperson of the county commissioners or the president judge of the court of common pleas, depending upon who originally appointed the board member.

(f) Compensation.--The members of the board shall serve without compensation.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16752 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 167 / Section 16752
Construction of embankments and causeways.
Status: in_force

In counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class, in which a stream over which it may be necessary to build a bridge crosses a public road, and the building of the bridge requires the construction of an embankment or causeway leading to either end of such bridge, the erection of which embankment or causeway requires more expense than it is reasonable that one or more adjoining townships should bear, the bridge may, in the discretion of the county commissioners, be entered on record as a county improvement and constructed as county bridges are constructed.
16 Pa.C.S. § 13926 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 139 / Section 13926
Certificate of cause of death.
Status: in_force

A coroner shall issue a certificate of cause of death in each case:

(1) referred to the coroner by the local registrar of vital statistics under the act of June 29, 1953 (P.L.304, No.66), known as the Vital Statistics Law of 1953; or

(2) in which the coroner has jurisdiction and no individual duly authorized by law certifies the cause of death.
16 Pa.C.S. § 17156 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 171 / Section 17156
Rules and regulations.
Status: in_force

Rules and regulations shall be applicable to the taxes imposed under this subchapter in the same manner as is provided for in section 506(1) and (2) of the act of June 5, 1991 (P.L.9, No.6), known as the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Cooperation Authority Act for Cities of the First Class.
16 Pa.C.S. § 13915 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 139 / Section 13915
Unclaimed property and sales.
Status: in_force

(a) Duties.--The coroner shall safely keep all of the following in the coroner's charge:

(1) The personal effects and property that appear to have been on or about the individual at the time of death or have been found on a decedent whose body is received at the county morgue or at any other facility serving in lieu of the county morgue.

(2) The effects and property that are delivered to the coroner according to law.

(b) Required holding period.--The coroner shall hold the property for one year, unless the property is claimed by a legal representative of the deceased or is duly and lawfully disposed of or claimed.

(c) Property unclaimed.--After one year, the coroner shall direct the unclaimed or undisposed property to the county commissioners to be sold at public sale. Money and property as security that may not be subject to a public sale shall be turned over to the county commissioners for proper disposition or use.

(d) Notice.--Notice of a public sale under subsection (c) shall be published in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the county once a week for three successive weeks. The proceeds of each sale shall be paid immediately into the county treasury. The provisions of this subsection shall be in lieu of escheating to the Commonwealth. Cross References. Section 13915 is referred to in section 13951 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15515 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 155 / Section 15515
Care of graves and headstones.
Status: in_force

(a) General rule.--The county commissioners may:

(1) ensure that the graves and headstones of all deceased servicepersons and all other veterans who are buried in the county receive proper and fitting care; and

(2) employ all necessary assistants to carry out the provisions of this section.

(b) Expenses.--The expense of the care of the graves and headstones under subsection (a) may be paid for by the county in which the graves are located, except if suitable care is otherwise provided.

(c) Spending of money.--Money appropriated may be expended directly by the board of county commissioners or paid over to the individual, firm, association or corporation owning or controlling a cemetery or other interment site in the county in which a grave is situated.

(d) Limitation.--The amount paid to care for a grave each year under this section may not exceed the charge for the annual care and maintenance of similar graves in the same cemetery or, if no fixed charge is established in that cemetery, may not exceed the sum charged in other cemeteries in the same county for similar services.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14929 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 149 / Section 14929
Settlement of accounts on extraneous proof.
Status: in_force

If any person in possession of books, vouchers or papers relative to public accounts before the controller or auditors refuses to produce the documents, or if any officer whose accounts are to be settled and adjusted by the controller or auditors refuses to attend or submit to examination, the auditors or controller shall proceed, by the examination of witnesses and other evidence, to ascertain and settle the amount of public money received by the officer and its application to public purposes.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16145 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 161 / Section 16145
Joining with municipalities in improving certain streets and highways.
Status: in_force

(a) General rule.--The county commissioners may join with the governing body of a municipal corporation in the grading, regrading, paving, repaving and improvement of so much of the streets and highways as are in, upon or alongside of the grounds of a county building.

(b) Contract with municipalities.--The county commissioners may enter into contract with a municipality to pay a fair proportion of the expense of grading, regrading, paving, repaving and improvement of the streets and highways and may appropriate from the county treasury sufficient money for this purpose. The county commissioners may act with any committee appointed by municipalities to establish grades, determine the kind and quality of paving materials to be used and ratify the

contracts entered into by the municipalities in the course of the improvements.

(c) Contract specifications.--The selection of grades, paving materials and proportion of expenses to be paid by the county shall be specified by a contract formulated under this section.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15331 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 153 / Section 15331
Restoration and preservation of historic sites.
Status: in_force

The county commissioners may make appropriations out of county money to any nonprofit corporation organized for the purpose of restoring and preserving historic sites that are within the county. For the purposes of this section, an eligible historic site shall be listed or eligible to be listed in the

National Register of Historic Places or designated as historic by resolution of the county commissioners.
16 Pa.C.S. § 13705 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 137 / Section 13705
Deputies and clerks.
Status: in_force

The sheriff of each county may appoint deputies and clerks to positions established in accordance with section 14723 (relating to number and compensation of officers, deputies, assistants, clerks and employees and revisions of salary schedules) for the transaction of the business of the sheriff's office. The sheriff may revoke the appointment of deputies in the same manner as the chief deputy. In counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class, the sheriff may also appoint as necessary special deputies to assist the sheriff in executing a civil or criminal process or court order or in preserving the peace when an emergency arises. A special deputy shall serve for a period only as necessary to conduct the special deputy's duties under this section.
16 Pa.C.S. § 502 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 5 / Section 502
Commonwealth Court designation of neutral court and appointment of commission.
Status: in_force

(a) Designation.--The court, upon the filing of the petition, shall designate a court of a county not affected by the question and not adjoining any of the counties involved to act in the proceeding. The designated court shall sit in the court's home county.

(b) Appointment.--If the designated court determines that the county line, or any part of the county line, shall be surveyed or marked, the court shall appoint a boundary commission, composed of three surveyors or professional engineers licensed or registered in accordance with the act of May 23, 1945 (P.L.913, No.367), known as the Engineer, Land Surveyor and Geologist Registration Law, to act for the court. Cross References. Section 502 is referred to in section 503 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15399d — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 153 / Section 15399d
Tourist promotion agencies and appropriations.
Status: in_force

(a) Creation.--The county commissioners may create or join with other counties in the creation of a tourist promotion agency, as defined under the act of July 4, 2008 (P.L.621, No.50), known as the Tourism Promotion Act, for the purpose of making studies, surveys and investigations and for planning and carrying out promotional programs and projects designed to stimulate and increase the volume of tourist, visitor and vacation business within the county or counties.

(b) Appropriation.--The county commissioners may appropriate annually an amount of money as may be deemed necessary to any tourist promotion agency, as defined under the Tourism Promotion Act, to assist the agencies in carrying out tourism promotional activities.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16701 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 167 / Section 16701
Authority, definitions and application of chapter.
Status: in_force

(a) Bridges and viaducts.--The county commissioners may locate, lay out, open, construct, reconstruct, widen, straighten, extend, alter, replace, remove and otherwise provide for bridges and viaducts over streams and other topographical impediments to public traffic, as parts or adjuncts of the roads within the county for vehicles and pedestrians or for pedestrians only, and culverts within the county or partly within and partly without the county, in accordance with this chapter.

(b) Application.--This chapter shall apply to necessary approaches, abutments, slopes, walls, embankments, fills, piers and other items pertaining to bridges, viaducts and culverts as to the bridges, viaducts and culverts themselves.

(c) Limitation.--The provisions of this chapter may not apply to any matters relating to county bridges, viaducts or culverts to the extent they are covered by the act of June 1, 1945 (P.L.1242, No.428), known as the State Highway Law, or of any other law vesting in the Department of Transportation and the various counties of the Commonwealth, rights, powers and duties. The terms of the foregoing limitation shall apply as well for the former act of May 28, 1937 (P.L.1053, No.286), known as the Public Utility Law, and the Public Utility Commission.

(d) Entrance during exercise of authority.--Counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class may not, in the exercise of any authority or duty conferred in this chapter, enter upon any road or property of any city or borough of or adjacent to the county or act in derogation of the lawful authority of such political subdivision, except with the proper consent of such political subdivision.

(e) Obstruction prohibited.--Bridges provided under this chapter may not obstruct any canal or railroad, and nothing in this chapter shall be deemed to release any railroad or other public utility from the requirements of existing law.
16 Pa.C.S. § 17144 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 171 / Section 17144
Transfer of money.
Status: in_force

(a) General rule.--

(1) The central city, the central county or a contiguous county, regardless of if the county is a participating county, and any special-purpose areawide unit of local government located or operating, in whole or in part, in any county may make grants from current and future revenues to the authority and to assist in defraying the costs of managing, operating, maintaining, financing and servicing the debt of regional destination facilities or parts of regional destination facilities, to enter into long-term agreements providing for payment of the costs and to enter into long-term leases or subleases as lessee or sublessee of all or part of a regional destination facility.

(2) The city or county may issue general obligation bonds for the purpose of obtaining money for the acquisition

or improvement of regional destination facilities or parts of regional destination facilities.

(b) Contributions.--The Commonwealth may contribute to the capital costs of constructing regional destination facilities by the issuance of Commonwealth bonds and notes under Article XIX-B of the act of March 4, 1971 (P.L.6, No.2), known as the Tax Reform Code of 1971. A project undertaken by the authority is deemed to be a redevelopment assistance project under which capital money of the Commonwealth may be expended under the act of May 20, 1949 (P.L.1633, No.493), known as the Housing and Redevelopment Assistance Law, and, notwithstanding the provisions of the Housing and Redevelopment Assistance Law, the Department of Community and Economic Development may make capital grants directly to the authority.
16 Pa.C.S. § 1127 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 11 / Section 1127
Bonds or blanket bond as security coverage.
Status: in_force

(a) In general.--A county may comply with section 1123(b) (relating to required security) by providing bonds or a blanket bond in accordance with the following:

(1) The bond or blanket bond shall be joint and several, with one or more surety companies authorized to do business in this Commonwealth and licensed by the Insurance Commissioner.

(2) The bond or blanket bond shall be conditioned upon each of the following:

(i) The faithful performance of all duties required of the person holding the office or position.

(ii) The just and faithful use, accounting or payment over, according to law, of all moneys and balances and other property, which are received or held by the officer or employee by virtue of the officer's or employee's office or employment whether on behalf of the county, the Commonwealth, a political subdivision or any other person.

(iii) The delivery to the successor in office of all books, papers, documents or other official things, whole, safe and undefaced, held in right of the office.

(3) A bond or blanket bond shall be taken in the name of the county and, in case of a breach of any of the conditions thereof by the acts or neglect of a principal on the bond, shall be for the use of the county, the Commonwealth, a political subdivision or any other person as that person's interest shall otherwise appear.

(4) The county, the Commonwealth, a political subdivision or other listed obligees or insureds, as the case may be, may sue upon the bond in its name or for its own use. Acts of the General Assembly pertaining to actions and limitations of actions upon official bonds given to the Commonwealth shall apply to the bonds provided for in this subchapter just as if they were given to the Commonwealth, except as otherwise specifically provided in this subchapter.

(b) Combined offices.--In counties in which one or more of the county offices set forth in section 1124(b) (relating to official security and officers) are combined, if officers are covered by individual bonds, a single bond covering the combined offices shall suffice for the officer holding the combined offices.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14701 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 147 / Section 14701
Fees belonging to county.
Status: in_force

(a) General rule.--Except as provided under law, fees that an elected or appointed county officer is legally authorized, required or entitled to charge or receive belong to the county.

(b) Collection and receipt.--Each county officer shall exact, collect and receive all fees to and for the use of the county, except taxes and fees as are levied by the Commonwealth, which shall be to and for the use of the Commonwealth.

(c) Use.--No county officer shall use fees received for official services for any purpose except for the use of the county or the Commonwealth.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15900 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 159 / Section 15900
Definitions.
Status: in_force

The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Airport." As defined in 74 Pa.C.S. § 5102 (relating to definitions).
16 Pa.C.S. § 16959 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 169 / Section 16959
Maintenance.
Status: in_force

Before a municipal street is improved, the county commissioners and the governing body of the municipal corporation shall agree upon the maintenance of the street. The agreement may provide that:

(1) the street shall be kept and maintained in good repair by the municipal corporation and, upon the completion of the improvement, further liability and responsibility of the county shall terminate; or

(2) the street shall be kept and maintained in good repair by the county and the share of the municipal corporation shall be paid annually to the county.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14906 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 149 / Section 14906
Investment of money.
Status: in_force

(a) Investment standards.--

(1) Subject to subsection (b)(1) and any conditions and limitations in this chapter, in counties of the second class A, the county treasurer shall have the power to invest and reinvest the money of the general fund and special funds that have accumulated beyond the ordinary needs of the various funds, and which are not authorized by law to be invested by any board, commission or county officer, consistent with sound business practice, subject, however, to the exercise of that degree of judgment, skill and care under the circumstances then prevailing which persons of prudence, discretion and intelligence, who are familiar with the matters, exercise in the management of their own affairs not in regard to speculation, but in regard to the permanent disposition of the funds, considering the probable income to be derived therefrom as well as the probable safety of their capital.

(2) In counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth class, the county commissioners or any individual other than a county commissioner who serves in an elective county office, shall invest money not otherwise required by law to be invested that the individual's office is required to collect, administer or disburse, consistent with sound business practice, subject, however, to the exercise of that degree of judgment, skill and care under the circumstances then prevailing which persons of prudence, discretion and intelligence, who are familiar with such matters, exercise in the management of their own affairs not in regard to speculation, but in regard to the permanent disposition of the funds, considering the probable income to be derived therefrom as well as the probable safety of their capital.

(b) Investment board and investment program.--

(1) In counties of the second class A, a board of investment is created. The board shall be composed of the treasurer, who shall chair the board, the chairperson of the county commissioners and the controller. The board shall provide for an investment program, including temporary investments, subject to restrictions contained in this part and in any other applicable statute and any rules and regulations adopted by the board. County boards, commissions or other county officers authorized to make investments under subsection (a)(1) shall make investments in conformity with the board's investment program.

(2) In counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh or eighth class, the county commissioners shall provide for an investment program, including temporary investments, subject to restrictions contained in this act and in any other applicable statute and any rules and regulations adopted by the county commissioners. Other elective officials authorized to make investments under subsection (a)(2) shall make investments in conformity with the investment program required under this paragraph.

(c) Authorized investments or financial products.--Authorized types of investments or financial products

for money, in addition to those authorized under the act of July 25, 1973 (P.L.217, No.53), entitled "An act authorizing cities of the first class and second class to invest all funds received and deposited with the city treasurer in certain commercial paper under certain terms and conditions; and providing for investment of public corporation or municipal authority funds," shall be:

(1) Obligations of:

(i) the United States or any of its agencies or instrumentalities backed by the full faith and credit of the United States, including United States Treasury bills;

(ii) the Commonwealth or any of its agencies or instrumentalities backed by the full faith and credit of the Commonwealth; or

(iii) a political subdivision of the Commonwealth or any of its agencies or instrumentalities backed by the full faith and credit of the political subdivision.

(2) Deposits in savings accounts or time deposits, other than certificates of deposit, or share accounts of institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund to the extent that the accounts are insured, and, for any amounts above the insured maximum, if approved collateral as provided by law is pledged by the depository. Deposits under this paragraph shall be differentiated from savings or demand deposits as authorized by the act of July 25, 1973 (P.L.217, No.53).

(3) Shares of an investment company registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (54 Stat. 789, 15 U.S.C. § 80a-1 et seq.), whose shares are registered under the Securities Act of 1933 (48 Stat. 74, 15 U.S.C. § 77a et seq.), if the only investments of the company are in the authorized investments for county money in paragraphs (1) and (2) and:

(i) The investment company is managed in accordance with 17 CFR 270.2a-7 (relating to money market funds).

(ii) The investment company is rated in the highest category by a nationally recognized rating agency.

(4) Certificates of deposit purchased from institutions insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund to the extent that the accounts are insured and, for any amounts above the insured maximum, if approved collateral as provided by law is pledged by the depository. In addition to the collateralization requirements, the following limitations shall apply:

(i) Certificates of deposit purchased from commercial banks shall be limited to an amount equal to 20% of a bank's total capital and surplus.

(ii) Certificates of deposit purchased from savings and loan associations or savings banks shall be limited to an amount equal to 20% of an institution's assets minus liabilities.

(5) An investment authorized under 20 Pa.C.S. Ch. 73 (relating to municipalities investments), which shall be an authorized investment for a pension or retirement fund.

(d) Limitation on certain officials.--Officials, as authorized in subsection (a)(1) or (2), may not have invested in negotiable certificates of deposit, bankers' acceptances or commercial paper, respectively, as authorized by the act of July 25, 1973 (P.L.217, No.53), more than an aggregate of the

total sum as the investment policy of the board of investment or the county commissioners has prescribed.

(e) Authority of officials making investments of county money.--Officials making investments of county money, as authorized in subsection (a)(1) or (2), may:

(1) Permit assets pledged as collateral under subsection

(c)(2) to be pooled in accordance with the act of August 6, 1971 (P.L.281, No.72), entitled "An act standardizing the procedures for pledges of assets to secure deposits of public funds with banking institutions pursuant to other laws; establishing a standard rule for the types, amounts and valuations of assets eligible to be used as collateral for deposits of public funds; permitting assets to be pledged against deposits on a pooled basis; and authorizing the appointment of custodians to act as pledgees of assets," relating to pledges of assets to secure deposits of public money.

(2) Combine money from more than one fund under county control for the purchase of a single investment, if each of the funds combined are accounted for separately in all respects and that the earnings from the investment are separately and individually computed and recorded and credited to the accounts from which the investment was purchased.

(3) Join with one or more other political subdivisions and municipal authorities in accordance with 53 Pa.C.S. Ch. 23 Subch. A (relating to intergovernmental cooperation) in the purchase of a single investment, if the requirements of paragraph (2) on separate accounting of individual funds and separate computation, recording and crediting of the earnings from the funds are adhered to.

(4) Join with the Commonwealth, political subdivision or redevelopment authority in the purchase of real estate for the purposes of community and economic development.

(5) Grant money to the Commonwealth, political subdivision or redevelopment authority for the purposes of supporting community and economic development projects.

(f) Income earned.--All income earned on an investment shall inure to the benefit of the county and shall be placed in the county general fund except as otherwise directed by the county commissioners or restricted by law. Cross References. Section 14906 is referred to in sections 14984.2, 14984.3 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15397 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 153 / Section 15397
Improvement of operation and facilities.
Status: in_force

The county commissioners may enter into contracts and long range cooperative programs with Federal, State and local governmental agencies, public utilities or authorities for the improvement of transportation operations and facilities within and across county lines. The county commissioners may independently or in cooperation with any other county or municipality appropriate money annually in furtherance of transportation improvements and may also accept on behalf of the county gifts, grants and Federal and State loans in connection to a transportation improvement.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15344 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 153 / Section 15344
Appropriations for police, fire and other public safety radio and telecommunications networks.
Status: in_force

The county commissioners may make appropriations for the erection, operation and maintenance of a county police radio, fire and other public safety radio and telecommunications networks.
16 Pa.C.S. § 16102.1 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 161 / Section 16102.1
Payments in lieu of taxes.
Status: in_force

If real property of the county is not presently being used for the purposes for which it was acquired, the county may make

payments in lieu of taxes for the property to political subdivisions in which the property is located.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15348 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 153 / Section 15348
Emergency appropriation to municipal corporations.
Status: in_force

(a) Appropriations.--The county commissioners of counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class may appropriate money for the purpose of assisting municipal corporations within the county with any cleanup, maintenance, repair and improvements undertaken as a result of damage incurred or a dangerous condition caused by either a disaster emergency within the county declared by the Governor or a local emergency declared by the governing body of a municipal corporation within the county.

(b) Definitions.--As used in this section, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings given to them in this subsection unless the context clearly indicates otherwise:

"Disaster emergency." As defined in 35 Pa.C.S. § 7102 (relating to definitions).

"Local emergency." As defined in 35 Pa.C.S. § 7102.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14950 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 149 / Section 14950
Claims against county.
Status: in_force

(a) General duties.--The controller or the county commissioners in counties without a controller shall scrutinize, audit and decide on all bills, claims or demands whatsoever against the county, except as otherwise provided in this subchapter.

(b) Presentation of claim and evidence.--

(1) All persons with a claim shall first present the claim to the controller or the county commissioners and, if required, make oath or affirmation before the controller or county commissioners to the accurateness of the claims.

(2) The controller or the county commissioners may require evidence by oath or affirmation of the claimant that the claim is legally due and that the supplies or services for which payment is claimed have been furnished or performed under legal authority.

(c) Conflict of interest.--

(1) The controller or county commissioners may inquire or ascertain if:

(i) Any officer or agent of the county:

(A) is interested in the contract under which a claim may arise; or

(B) has received or is to receive any commission, consideration or gratuity relating thereto.

(ii) There has been any evasion of the provisions of this part by making two or more contracts for small amounts which should have been in one.

(2) Except as provided under section 15106 (relating to conflicts of interest prohibited), if the controller or county commissioners find that an officer or agent has a conflict of interest under paragraph (1) or that there has been any evasion by the officer or agent, the controller or county commissioners shall refuse to approve the claim.
16 Pa.C.S. § 15752 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 157 / Section 15752
Appropriations.
Status: in_force

The county commissioners may appropriate the amount of money necessary for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of this subchapter. The amount appropriated under this section may not exceed one-fourth of one mill on each dollar of the assessed value of taxable real estate in the county in a given year. The amounts appropriated under this section shall be paid out by the county treasurer on the orders of the county commissioners.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14971 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 149 / Section 14971
Additions and revisions to duplicates.
Status: in_force

(a) Addition to tax duplicates.--If in any county there is any construction of a building or buildings not otherwise exempt as a dwelling after January first of any year, and the building is not included in the tax duplicate of the county, the authority responsible for assessments in the county shall, upon the request of the county commissioners, cause to be inspected and reassessed, subject to the right of appeal and adjustment provided by any statute under which assessments are made, all taxable property in the county to which major improvements have been made after January 1 of any year.

(b) Notice of the reassessments.--Notice of the reassessments shall be given in accordance with 53 Pa.C.S. § 8841(c) (relating to assessment roll and interim revisions) to the authority responsible for assessments, the county commissioners and the property owner, and the following shall apply:

(1) Reassessed property shall be added to the duplicate and shall be taxable for county purposes at the reassessed valuation for that proportionate part of the fiscal year of the county remaining after the property was improved.

(2) Any improvement made during any given month shall be computed as having been made on the first of the month.

(3) A certified copy of the additions or revisions to the duplicate shall be furnished by the county commissioners to the proper tax collector for the county, and, within 10 days of receipt of the copy, the tax collector shall notify the owner of the property of the taxes due the county.

(4) If an assessment is made for a portion of a year under this section, the assessment shall be added to the duplicate of the following or succeeding year unless the value of the improvements has already been included in the duplicate.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14722 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 147 / Section 14722
Salary boards.
Status: in_force

A salary board is created in each county. The following apply:

(1) The salary board shall consist of the three individual members of the county commissioners and:

(i) the county controller; or

(ii) for counties without a controller, the county treasurer.

(2) The chairperson of the county commissioners shall be chairperson of the salary board.

(3) The county controller or county treasurer, as the case may be, shall be secretary of the board.

(4) The salary board shall meet and organize on the first Monday of January of each year. Cross References. Section 14722 is referred to in section 14720 of this title.
16 Pa.C.S. § 14982 — PA Code / Title 16 / Chapter 149 / Section 14982
Adoption of budget, publication of proposed budget and notice of final action date.
Status: in_force

(a) Publication of proposed budget and adoption of budget.--The proposed budget shall be prepared and adopted as follows:

(1) The public shall be given notice by publication in one newspaper of general circulation at least 20 days before the date set for the adoption of the budget that the proposed budget is available for public inspection. The notice shall contain the date set for the adoption of the budget and the manner in which the proposed budget has been made available for public inspection.

(2) The budget shall be adopted on or before December 31.

(b) Revision of proposed budget.--If any revision of the proposed budget is made after the budget has been published under subsection (a) which would increase the estimated expenditures in the adopted budget by more than 10% in the aggregate over the proposed budget as made available for public inspection, the revised budget may not be adopted with any increases unless the budget is made available for public inspection and for protest of any increases for a period of at least 10 days after notice to that effect is published.