PRINTER'S NO. 1925
No. 1581 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY COSTA, DERMODY, VAN HORNE, WALKO, READSHAW,
DeLUCA, FRANKEL, RUFFING, LAUGHLIN, SOLOBAY, MELIO, STEELMAN,
YOUNGBLOOD, HALUSKA, HARHAI AND GEIST, JUNE 8, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, JUNE 8, 1999
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, authorizing municipalities to provide
3 additional points on civil service examinations for municipal
4 residents.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Chapter 21 of Title 53 of the Pennsylvania
8 Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a subchapter to read:
9 SUBCHAPTER A
10 CIVIL SERVICE
11 Sec.
12 2101. Legislative intent.
13 2102. Optional grading for residents.
14 § 2101. Legislative intent.
15 It is hereby declared to be the legislative intent of this
16 subchapter to:
17 (1) Recognize and foster the additional commitment which
18 residents of a community have to the betterment and well-
1 being of that community.
2 (2) Recognize and foster the additional dedication and
3 effort which result from residents having a vested interest
4 in the health, safety and welfare of their own community.
5 (3) Recognize and foster the desire of residents to
6 serve and improve their community.
7 § 2102. Optional grading for residents.
8 When any person who is deemed a resident of a municipality
9 for voting purposes for at least two years prior to taking any
10 examination for appointment in the civil service of the
11 municipality, takes such examination, the examination of that
12 person shall be marked or graded in the same manner as provided
13 for all other examinations. The governing body of the
14 municipality may, by ordinance duly adopted, provide that when
15 the examination of any such person is completed and graded, if
16 the grade is passing, then such grading or percentage as the
17 examination merits shall be increased by a maximum of 10% for
18 every such person, and such total mark or grade shall represent
19 the final grade or classification of such person and shall
20 determine his or her order of standing on the eligible list.
21 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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