PRINTER'S NO. 2207
No. 1555 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY MOWERY, WAUGH, LEMMOND, CORMAN, WHITE, CONTI,
WENGER, EARLL, TILGHMAN, RHOADES AND SCHWARTZ,
OCTOBER 4, 2000
REFERRED TO LAW AND JUSTICE, OCTOBER 4, 2000
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:
27 Section 2416.1. Campus Police Powers and Duties.--(a)
1 Campus Police shall have the power and their duty shall be:
2 (1) to enforce good order on the grounds and in the
3 buildings of the college or university;
4 (2) to protect the grounds and buildings of the college or
5 university;
6 (3) to exclude all disorderly persons from the grounds and
7 buildings of the college or university;
8 (4) to adopt whatever means may be necessary for the
9 performance of their duties;
10 (5) to exercise the same powers as are now or may hereafter
11 be exercised under authority of law or ordinance by the police
12 of the municipalities wherein the college or university is
13 located, including, but not limited to, those powers conferred
14 pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 89 Subch. D (relating to municipal
15 police jurisdiction);
16 (6) to prevent crime, investigate criminal acts, apprehend,
17 arrest and charge criminal offenders and issue summary citations
18 for acts committed on the grounds and in the buildings of the
19 college or university and carry the offender before the proper
20 alderman, justice of the peace, magistrate or bail commissioner
21 and prefer charges against him under the laws of this
22 Commonwealth. Except when acting pursuant to 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 89
23 Subch. D, Campus Police shall exercise these powers and perform
24 these duties only on the grounds or within 500 yards of the
25 grounds of the college or university. For the purposes of
26 applying the provisions of 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 89 Subch. D, the
27 grounds and within 500 yards of the grounds of the college or
28 university shall constitute the primary jurisdiction of the
29 Campus Police;
30 (7) to order off the grounds and out of the buildings of the
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1 college or university all vagrants, loafers, trespassers and
2 persons under the influence of liquor and, if necessary, remove
3 them by force and, in case of resistance, carry such offenders
4 before an alderman, justice of the peace, bail commissioner or
5 magistrate; and
6 (8) to arrest any person who damages, mutilates or destroys
7 the trees, plants, shrubbery, turf, grass plots, benches,
8 buildings and structures or commits any other offense on the
9 grounds and in the buildings of the college or university and
10 carry the offender before the proper alderman, justice of the
11 peace, bail commissioner or magistrate and prefer charges
12 against him under the laws of this Commonwealth.
13 (b) Campus Police and municipalities are authorized to enter
14 into an agreement with the municipality wherein the college or
15 university is located to exercise concurrently those powers and
16 to perform those duties conferred pursuant to a cooperative
17 police service agreement in accordance with 42 Pa.C.S. § 8953
18 (relating to Statewide municipal police jurisdiction). When so
19 acting, the Campus Police of the college or university shall
20 have the same powers, immunities and benefits granted to police
21 officers in 42 Pa.C.S. Ch. 89 Subch. D.
22 (c) When acting within the scope of the authority of this
23 section, Campus Police are at all times employes of the college
24 or university and shall be entitled to all of the rights and
25 benefits accruing therefrom.
26 (d) As used in this section:
27 "Campus Police" means all law enforcement personnel employed
28 by a State-owned, State-aided or State-related college or
29 university who have successfully completed a Campus Police
30 course of training approved under 53 Pa.C.S. Ch. 21 Subch. D
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1 (relating to municipal police education and training).
2 "College" or "university" means all State-owned, State-aided
3 or State-related colleges and universities.
4 "Grounds" means all lands and buildings owned, controlled,
5 leased or managed by a college or university.
6 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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