Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1903-08-20
Kew State Law For Collecting School
Taxes

The last Legislature passed a law re-
.ating to the collection Of taxes in bor-
oughs and townships. The collectors
must now make monthly statement of
the amounts which they have received.
The following is copy OF the law, as
filed in Prothonotary Phipps's office,
and will be read with interest by the
school authorities and collectors of the
county.
Section |. Be it enacted, etc, That
each and every collector of school taxes
in the several boroughs and townships of
this Commonwealth shall hereafter, on or
before the tenth day of each and every
month, after receiving the duplicate CON
tanning a statement OF the school tax to
be collected by him, delivered with such
duplicate, statement in writing signed
by him, showing the names of the per
sons from whom he has collected any
school taxes upon his duplicate, to and
including the last day of the preceding
mouth, the amount collected from each,
and the date of such collection, and also
the amount of the uncollected school
taxes upon the same duplicate, and shall
at the same time, if required by the
secretary or any member Of the School
Board exhibit the duplicate, showing the
said unco!lected taxes, for examination;
and the said tax collector shall pay
over on or before the said tenth day of
each and every month during his term
of office, to the treasurer of the school
district, all taxes collected by him during
the preceding month, less the commits
sion or fees to which he is by law entitled
for the collection of the same.
Section 2. 1t shall be the duty of the
Board of School Directors and the col
lector of the school taxes, in each of the
boroughs and townships of the Common
wealth, to meet together, at the usual
meeting place Of the said School Board,
on the first Monday Of each and every
year and examine the duplicate of the
school taxes, which the said collector is
hereby requested to produce and exhibit
to the said Board of School Directors,
and ascertain the amount of school taxes
then collected; and it shall be the duty
of every such collector, on or before the
first Monday Of June thereafter, to col
lect and pay to the treasurer of the prop
er school district the whole amount of
the balance of the taxes charged and
assessed in the said duplicate, excepting
such sums from which the said school
directors, in their discretion, may cx.
Oncrate them.
Section 3. Any tax collector who
shall fail to pay over to the treasurer of
the proper school district the taxes col
lected by him, according to the provis-
ions Of this act, or who shall fail to make
and deliver to the secretary any of the
statements in writing required by this
act, or who shall fail to produce and ex-
hibit the duplicate of the school taxes to
the Secretary Of the Board of School
Directors as required by the provisions of
this act, shall be guilty of misdemeanor,
and on conviction thereof shall be SEN
fenced to pay fine not exceeding one
hundred dollars.
Section +. All acts or parts of acts
inconsistent herewith are hereby repeal
ed.
Approved--The 21st day of April,
A. D., 1903.
SAMUEL w. PENNYPACKER.