PRINTER'S NO. 664
No. 602 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY HAGARTY AND LASHINGER, FEBRUARY 15, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, FEBRUARY 15, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 42 (Judiciary and Judicial Procedure) of the
2 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, further providing for
3 penalties for certain indirect criminal contempts.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 4136(b) of Title 42 of the Pennsylvania
7 Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
8 § 4136. Rights of persons charged with certain indirect
9 criminal contempts.
10 * * *
11 (b) Punishment.--Except as otherwise provided in this title
12 or by statute hereafter enacted, punishment for a contempt
13 specified in subsection (a) may be by fine not exceeding [$100]
14 $2,500 or by imprisonment not exceeding [15] 45 days in the jail
15 of the county where the court is sitting, or both, in the
16 discretion of the court. Where a person is committed to jail for
17 the nonpayment of such a fine, he shall be discharged at the
18 expiration of [15] 45 days, but where he is also committed for a
1 definite time, the [15] 45 days shall be computed from the
2 expiration of the definite time.
3 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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