PRINTER'S NO.  1625

  

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

  

SENATE BILL

 

No.

1261

Session of

2011

  

  

INTRODUCED BY ERICKSON, RAFFERTY, PILEGGI, HUGHES, SCHWANK, BRUBAKER, SOLOBAY, YUDICHAK, FERLO, LEACH, FONTANA, BLAKE AND STACK, SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

  

  

REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, SEPTEMBER 28, 2011  

  

  

  

AN ACT

  

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Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes, in municipal authorities, further

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providing for purposes and powers.

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The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

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hereby enacts as follows:

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Section 1.  Section 5607(a) of Title 53 of the Pennsylvania

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Consolidated Statutes is amended by adding a paragraph to read:

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§ 5607.  Purposes and powers.

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(a)  Scope of projects permitted.--Every authority

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incorporated under this chapter shall be a body corporate and

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politic and shall be for the purposes of financing working

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capital; acquiring, holding, constructing, financing, improving,

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maintaining and operating, owning or leasing, either in the

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capacity of lessor or lessee, projects of the following kind and

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character and providing financing for insurance reserves:

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(18)  Storm water management planning and projects.

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Section 2.  This act shall take effect in 60 days.

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