PRINTER'S NO. 884
No. 793 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY D. R. WRIGHT, J. L. WRIGHT, COHEN, ROBINSON,
LETTERMAN, BISHOP, KOSINSKI, FOX, STEIGHNER, ITKIN, CAWLEY,
RYBAK, VAN HORNE, COY, JOHNSON, DeLUCA, VEON AND LAUGHLIN,
MARCH 14, 1989
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON JUDICIARY, MARCH 14, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled
2 "An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the
3 executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the
4 Executive Department thereof and the administrative
5 departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,
6 including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or
7 Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or
8 authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative
9 departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and
10 duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative
11 officers, and of the several administrative departments,
12 boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the
13 Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive
14 and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of
15 certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and
16 other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,
17 and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the
18 number and compensation of the deputies and all other
19 assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and
20 commissions shall be determined," adding rights, duties and
21 jurisdiction to security and campus police under certain
22 conditions.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. The introductory and last paragraphs of section
26 2416 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The
27 Administrative Code of 1929, amended September 27, 1978
1 (P.L.775, No.149), are amended and the section is amended by
2 adding a clause to read:
3 Section 2416. Capitol Police, Commonwealth Property Police
4 and Campus Police.--The Capitol Police, Commonwealth Property
5 Police and the Security or Campus Police of all State [colleges
6 and] owned universities, State aided or related colleges and
7 universities and community colleges shall have the power, and
8 their duty shall be:
9 * * *
10 (i) To enter into an agreement with the municipal police
11 force where the State owned university, State aided or related
12 college or university, or community college is located, defining
13 the geographical boundaries of the area adjacent to the
14 institution, and Security or Campus Police shall have the same
15 power and authority granted to municipal police including the
16 right to pursuit and arrest when acting in the area defined in
17 the agreement.
18 Security [and] or Campus Police shall exercise their powers
19 and perform their duties only on the premises of the State
20 [colleges and] owned universities, State aided or related
21 colleges and universities and community colleges by or for which
22 they are employed and also the area adjacent thereto, where
23 there has been an agreement authorized by clause (i), and only
24 after they have completed a course of training including crisis
25 intervention training and riot control as approved by the
26 Department of Education and, if they carry a firearm, training
27 in accordance with the act of June 18, 1974 (P.L.359, No.120),
28 referred to as the "Municipal Police Education and Training
29 Law," except, that Security or Campus Police employed by State
30 owned [colleges and] universities, State aided or related
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1 colleges and universities and community colleges located in any
2 [municipalities, other than cities of the first class or second
3 class, are authorized,] municipality upon request of the mayor
4 or other executive authority in emergency situations occurring
5 within the municipality, [upon the request of the mayor or other
6 executive authority] and under the direction of the local law
7 enforcement authorities, [to] may exercise those powers and
8 perform those duties conferred pursuant to this section within
9 the municipality for the limited purpose of aiding local
10 authorities in emergency situations and except that Security or
11 Campus Police employed by State owned universities, State aided
12 or related colleges and universities or community colleges shall
13 have the same powers of arrest granted to police officers of
14 political subdivisions by 42 Pa.C.S. Chapter 89 Subch. D
15 (relating to municipal police jurisdiction). When so acting, the
16 Campus Police shall be acting within the scope of the authority
17 of this act and are, at all times, [State] employes of this
18 Commonwealth, State aided or related colleges and universities
19 or community colleges respectively and entitled to all the
20 rights and benefits accruing therefrom.
21 Section 2. This act shall take effect immediately.
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