PRINTER'S NO. 3950
No. 2847 Session of 1998
INTRODUCED BY ROSS, BARD, LESCOVITZ, HERMAN AND COY, OCTOBER 6, 1998
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, OCTOBER 6, 1998
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 regulating duties 21 of Department of Community and Economic Development. 22 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania 23 hereby enacts as follows: 24 Section 1. Section 1209 of the act of April 9, 1929 25 (P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, 26 amended February 1, 1966 (1965 P.L.1849, No.582), is amended to 27 read:
1 Section 1209. Local Government [Budget and] Financial 2 Reports; Compilation of Statistics.--The Department of Community 3 [Affairs] and Economic Development shall have power and its duty 4 shall be: 5 [(a) To prepare, in cooperation with duly authorized 6 committees of local government officials, and furnish annually 7 at the expense of the Commonwealth, to the corporate authorities 8 of each county (except counties of the first class), city of the 9 third class, borough, incorporated town, township, school 10 district of the second, third, and fourth class blank forms 11 suitable for the making of budgets by the proper authorities of 12 said local government and for the filing of a copy of the budget 13 after adoption with said department. 14 (b)] (a) To furnish to the corporate authorities of each 15 county (except counties of the first class), city of the third 16 class, borough, incorporated town, township suitable blank forms 17 for the making of annual reports of the financial condition of 18 their respective local governments to the department, which 19 forms for financial report purposes shall be placed by said 20 corporate authorities into the hands of the director, controller 21 or auditors who by law are required to make such financial 22 reports to the department. Such annual financial reports shall 23 be prepared in cooperation with aforesaid duly authorized 24 committees of local government officials and shall contain: (1) 25 a statement of the receipts of the unit of local government from 26 all sources [and of all accounts and revenue which may be due 27 and uncollected at the close of the fiscal year]; (2) a 28 statement of the disbursements for all the governmental 29 activities of the unit of local government during the fiscal 30 year; (3) a detailed statement of the indebtedness of the unit 19980H2847B3950 - 2 -
1 of local government at the close of the fiscal year[, the 2 provisions made for the payment thereof, together with the 3 purposes for which it was incurred; (4) a statement of the cost 4 of ownership and operation of each and every public service 5 industry owned, maintained or operated by the unit of local 6 government; (5)]; (4) such further or more specific information 7 in relation to the cost of any branch of the local government 8 and improvements therein as may be required by the department. 9 [In the case of blank forms for financial reports by 10 townships of the second class and counties, the same shall be so 11 arranged that corresponding data and information, required to be 12 reported by said units of local government to the Department of 13 Highways or the Department of Public Welfare, may be used for 14 the information required to be furnished to the Department of 15 Community Affairs under this section. 16 (c)] (b) The substance of the annual [budget and] financial 17 reports, required by law to be made to the Department of 18 Community [Affairs] and Economic Development by the corporate 19 officers, directors, controllers, and auditors of units of local 20 government, shall be arranged by said department in such form as 21 shall indicate the comparative receipts from the various sources 22 of revenue and the comparative costs of the several branches of 23 local government in the governments making such reports, shall 24 be published at the cost of the Commonwealth in an annual 25 statement of comparative statistics which shall be issued [for 26 each class of local government] as a public document in printed 27 or electronic form, and shall be submitted by the department to 28 the General Assembly at each regular session. Copies thereof 29 shall also be [furnished] made available by the department to 30 each such local government unit named therein. 19980H2847B3950 - 3 -
1 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. G7L71JRW/19980H2847B3950 - 4 -