PRINTER'S NO. 2275
No. 1844 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY HANNA, DALEY, COY, CORRIGAN, McCALL, WOJNAROSKI,
TRELLO, YOUNGBLOOD, BAKER, TRAVAGLIO, GRUCELA, BENNINGHOFF,
RAMOS, M. COHEN, MELIO, STEELMAN AND HARHAI,
SEPTEMBER 27, 1999
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, SEPTEMBER 27, 1999
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," further providing for
21 campus police powers and duties.
22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
23 hereby enacts as follows:
24 Section 1. Section 2416.1 of the act of April 9, 1929
25 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929,
26 added November 26, 1997 (P.L.530, No.57), is amended to read:
1 Section 2416.1. Campus Police Powers and Duties.--(a)
2 Campus Police shall have the power and their duty shall be:
3 (1) to enforce good order on the grounds and in the
4 buildings of the college or university;
5 (2) to protect the grounds and buildings of the college or
6 university;
7 (3) to exclude all disorderly persons from the grounds and
8 buildings of the college or university;
9 (4) to adopt whatever means may be necessary for the
10 performance of their duties;
11 (5) to exercise the same powers as are now or may hereafter
12 be exercised under authority of law or ordinance by the police
13 of the municipalities wherein the college or university is
14 located, including, but not limited to, those powers conferred
15 pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 89 Subch. D (relating to municipal
16 police jurisdiction);
17 (6) to prevent crime, investigate criminal acts, apprehend,
18 arrest and charge criminal offenders and issue summary citations
19 for acts committed on the grounds and in the buildings of the
20 college or university and carry the offender before the proper
21 alderman, justice of the peace, magistrate or bail commissioner
22 and prefer charges against him under the laws of this
23 Commonwealth. Except when acting pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 89
24 Subch. D, Campus Police shall exercise these powers and perform
25 these duties only on the grounds or within 500 yards of the
26 grounds of the college or university. For the purposes of
27 applying the provisions of 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 89 Subch. D, the
28 grounds and within 500 yards of the grounds of the college or
29 university shall constitute the primary jurisdiction of the
30 Campus Police;
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1 (7) to order off the grounds and out of the buildings of the
2 college or university all vagrants, loafers, trespassers and
3 persons under the influence of liquor and, if necessary, remove
4 them by force and, in case of resistance, carry such offenders
5 before an alderman, justice of the peace, bail commissioner or
6 magistrate; and
7 (8) to arrest any person who damages, mutilates or destroys
8 the trees, plants, shrubbery, turf, grass plots, benches,
9 buildings and structures or commits any other offense on the
10 grounds and in the buildings of the college or university and
11 carry the offender before the proper alderman, justice of the
12 peace, bail commissioner or magistrate and prefer charges
13 against him under the laws of this Commonwealth.
14 (b) Campus Police and municipalities are authorized to enter
15 into an agreement with the municipality wherein the college or
16 university is located to exercise concurrently those powers and
17 to perform those duties conferred pursuant to a cooperative
18 police service agreement in accordance with 42 Pa.C.S. § 8953
19 (relating to Statewide municipal police jurisdiction). When so
20 acting, the Campus Police of the college or university shall
21 have the same powers, immunities and benefits granted to police
22 officers in 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 89 Subch. D.
23 (c) When acting within the scope of the authority of this
24 section, Campus Police are at all times employes of the college
25 or university and shall be entitled to all of the rights and
26 benefits accruing therefrom.
27 (d) As used in this section:
28 "Campus Police" means all law enforcement personnel employed
29 by a State-owned, State-aided or State-related college or
30 university who have successfully completed a Campus Police
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1 course of training approved under 53 Pa.C.S. Ch. 21 Subch. D
2 (relating to municipal police education and training).
3 "College" or "university" means all State-owned, State-aided
4 or State-related colleges and universities.
5 "Grounds" means all lands and buildings owned, controlled,
6 leased or managed by a college or university.
7 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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