PRINTER'S NO. 696
No. 653 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY SALVATORE, MARCH 7, 1989
REFERRED TO TRANSPORTATION, MARCH 7, 1989
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of January 22, 1968 (P.L.42, No.8), entitled,
2 as amended, "An act empowering and authorizing the Department
3 of Transportation to establish and administer certain grant
4 programs for the betterment of mass transportation systems
5 and facilities throughout the Commonwealth; providing for
6 State grants to transportation companies, municipalities,
7 counties, or their instrumentalities and to agencies and
8 instrumentalities of the Commonwealth for studies, research,
9 demonstration programs, promotion programs, purchase of
10 service projects, and capital improvement projects under
11 certain conditions; authorizing grants by counties or
12 municipalities in metropolitan areas to local transportation
13 organizations, authorizing the creation of a transportation
14 authority to function in each metropolitan area consisting of
15 any county of the first class and all nearby counties within
16 a radius of twenty miles of any such first class county, as a
17 body corporate and politic for the purpose of establishing an
18 integrated mass transportation system with all pertinent
19 powers including, but not limited to, leasing, acquiring,
20 owning, operating and maintaining a system for, or otherwise
21 providing for, the transportation of persons, authorizing the
22 borrowing of money and issuance of bonds therefor, conferring
23 the right of eminent domain on the authority; altering the
24 jurisdiction of the Public Utility Commission, authorizing
25 the acceptance of grants from Federal, State and local
26 governments, limiting actions against the authority and
27 exempting it from taxation, authorizing counties and
28 municipalities to enter into compacts for the financing of
29 each authority and to make appropriations in accordance with
30 such compacts, creating a citizen advisory committee,
31 conferring exclusive jurisdiction upon certain courts with
32 respect to matters relating to such authority, empowering
33 each authority to function outside of the metropolitan area
1 under certain terms and conditions," further providing for
2 subsidy payments during work stoppage.
3 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
4 hereby enacts as follows:
5 Section 1. The act of January 22, 1968 (P.L.42, No.8), known
6 as the Pennsylvania Urban Mass Transportation Law, is amended by
7 adding a section to read:
8 Section 344. Subsidy Payments During Work Stoppage.--During
9 the period of any work stoppage, the department shall hold in
10 escrow subsidy payments to any transportation authority serving
11 a metropolitan area consisting of a county of the first class
12 and adjoining counties. The amount of such payments held in
13 escrow shall be in such proportion to the total subsidy payment
14 as the payroll of the total number of workers involved in the
15 work stoppage shall bear to the total payroll of the
16 transportation authority. The amount so held in escrow shall be
17 paid over to the transportation authority upon cessation of the
18 work stoppage as evidenced by written statements of authorized
19 representatives of both labor and management.
20 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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