PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 1800 PRINTER'S NO. 1855
No. 1398 Session of 1989
INTRODUCED BY HELFRICK, DECEMBER 11, 1989
SENATOR PECORA, LOCAL GOVERNMENT, AS AMENDED, JANUARY 23, 1990
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of March 4, 1870 (P.L.343, No.335), entitled
2 "An act to define the limits and to organize the town of
3 Bloomsburg," further providing for tax levies.
4 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
5 hereby enacts as follows:
6 Section 1. Section 9 of the act of March 4, 1870 (P.L.343,
7 No.335), entitled "An act to define the limits and to organize
8 the town of Bloomsburg," amended December 6, 1972 (P.L.1441,
9 No.320), is amended to read:
10 Section 9. That the provisions of the act, entitled "A
11 further supplement to an act, entitled 'An Act to promote the
12 more certain and equal assessment of taxes in Philadelphia,'
13 approved fourteenth of March, one thousand eight hundred and
14 sixty-five, relative to assessments on agricultural and farm
15 lands and the suburban portions of said city," approved twenty-
16 fourth March, one thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, are
17 hereby extended and applied to the town of Bloomsburg; and
18 assessments and classifications of real estate in said town, and
1 rates of taxation thereon for town purposes, shall be as
2 provided in said act, and shall be fixed, made, regulated and
3 enforced agreeably thereto by the proper officers and by the
4 authority of said town; the town council may in any year,
5 subject to the regulations of the act aforesaid, fix a tax rate
6 for town purposes, not exceeding thirty mills on the dollar of
7 valuation of taxable property therein; but any such tax rate
8 exceeding five mills upon the dollar of valuation of property,
9 shall be agreed to and fixed by at least five votes in council,
10 after at least one week's distinct notice in public session, and
11 entered upon the minutes that such rate will be proposed. In
12 addition to the thirty mill tax the town council may, in any
13 year, fix a tax to pay interest and sinking fund charges on the
14 indebtedness of the town; fix a tax not exceeding one-half mill,
15 to provide for pensions, retirement or the purchase of annuity
16 contracts for town employes; [and] fix a tax not exceeding eight
17 mills, for lighting and illuminating the streets, highways and
18 other public places[.]; fix a tax not exceeding five mills, for
19 the purpose of providing trash removal services for the town;
20 fix a tax not exceeding five mills to provide liability
21 insurance for the town; and for a tax not exceeding five mills
22 to provide police support services for the town.
23 SECTION 2. THE ACT IS AMENDED BY ADDING A SECTION TO READ: <--
24 SECTION 9.1. FOR THE TAX YEAR FOR WHICH THE TOWN FIRST
25 LEVIES A SPECIAL PURPOSE TAX FOR PROVIDING TRASH REMOVAL,
26 LIABILITY INSURANCE OR POLICE SUPPORT SERVICES UNDER SECTION 9,
27 THE TOWN SHALL REDUCE THE MILLAGE RATE OF THE GENERAL PROPERTY
28 TAX IT LEVIES UNDER SECTION 9 BY THE SAME NUMBER OF MILLS AS IT
29 LEVIES THE SPECIAL PURPOSE TAX FOR PROVIDING TRASH REMOVAL,
30 LIABILITY INSURANCE OR POLICE SUPPORT SERVICES. FOR ANY TAX YEAR
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1 FOR WHICH THE TOWN INCREASES THE MILLAGE RATE OF A SPECIAL
2 PURPOSE TAX LEVIED UNDER SECTION 9, THE TOWN SHALL REDUCE THE
3 MILLAGE RATE OF THE GENERAL PROPERTY TAX IT LEVIES UNDER SECTION
4 9 BY THE SAME NUMBER OF MILLS AS IT INCREASES THAT TAX RATE OF
5 THE SPECIAL PURPOSE TAX.
6 Section 2 3. This act shall take effect in 60 days. <--
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