PRINTER'S NO. 1101
No. 966 Session of 2005
INTRODUCED BY McGEEHAN, ARGALL, BARRAR, BEBKO-JONES, BELFANTI,
BENNINGHOFF, BROWNE, BUNT, CALTAGIRONE, CAPPELLI, CASORIO,
CORRIGAN, CRAHALLA, DALEY, DeLUCA, DENLINGER, FABRIZIO,
FICHTER, FRANKEL, GERGELY, GODSHALL, GOODMAN, HARHAI,
HENNESSEY, W. KELLER, KENNEY, KOTIK, LaGROTTA, LEACH,
LEDERER, MANN, MICOZZIE, MUNDY, PALLONE, PETRONE, PISTELLA,
PRESTON, READSHAW, SATHER, SHANER, SOLOBAY, STERN, STETLER,
STURLA, TANGRETTI, THOMAS, TIGUE, WALKO, WANSACZ, WASHINGTON,
WHEATLEY, YOUNGBLOOD AND YUDICHAK, MARCH 15, 2005
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON PROFESSIONAL LICENSURE, MARCH 15, 2005
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," providing for denial of
21 certificates, licenses and official documents.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. The act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), known
1 as The Administrative Code of 1929, is amended by adding a
2 section to read:
3 Section 810.1. Denial of Certificates, Licenses and Official
4 Documents.--(a) The Commissioner of Professional and
5 Occupational Affairs shall not issue any certificate, license,
6 renewal or other official document of the various professional
7 and occupational examining boards in the Department of State to
8 a person who owns, or is the majority shareholder in a
9 corporation that owns, any real property in this Commonwealth
10 that has been determined to be in violation of applicable State
11 or municipal housing, building, property maintenance or fire
12 safety code requirements, for which the property owner has not
13 taken substantial steps to bring the property into code
14 compliance within six months following notification of the
15 violation. This includes, but is not limited to, real property
16 that is utilized in the housing choice voucher program for very
17 low-income families, the elderly and the disabled under section
18 8 of the United States Housing Act of 1937 (50 Stat. 888, 42
19 U.S.C. § 1437(f)).
20 (b) All certificates, licenses, renewals or other official
21 documents of the various professional and occupational boards
22 shall be withheld until such time as the applicant obtains a
23 letter from the appropriate State or municipal agency indicating
24 the property in question is now in code compliance or that
25 substantial steps have been taken to bring the property into
26 code compliance.
27 (c) For the purposes of this section, "substantial steps"
28 shall mean an affirmative action on the part of the property
29 owner or managing agent, as determined by the municipality, to
30 remedy code violations involving physical improvements or
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1 preparations to the property.
2 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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