THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

HOUSE BILL

INTRODUCED BY WHITE, BELFANTI, BRENNAN, FREEMAN, HARHAI, KORTZ, LEVDANSKY, LONGIETTI, MANN, MATZIE, MOUL, MUSTIO, PALLONE, PASHINSKI, PRESTON, SANTONI, SCAVELLO, SEIP, SIPTROTH, K. SMITH, SOLOBAY, McILVAINE SMITH AND DONATUCCI, MARCH 25, 2009

REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON URBAN AFFAIRS, MARCH 25, 2009  

AN ACT

Amending the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177, No.175), entitled

"An act providing for and reorganizing the conduct of the

executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the

Executive Department thereof and the administrative

departments, boards, commissions, and officers thereof,

including the boards of trustees of State Normal Schools, or

Teachers Colleges; abolishing, creating, reorganizing or

authorizing the reorganization of certain administrative

departments, boards, and commissions; defining the powers and

duties of the Governor and other executive and administrative

officers, and of the several administrative departments,

boards, commissions, and officers; fixing the salaries of the

Governor, Lieutenant Governor, and certain other executive

and administrative officers; providing for the appointment of

certain administrative officers, and of all deputies and

other assistants and employes in certain departments, boards,

and commissions; and prescribing the manner in which the

number and compensation of the deputies and all other

assistants and employes of certain departments, boards and

commissions shall be determined," in Department of Community

and Economic Development, further providing for powers and

duties in general.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1.  Section 2501-C(m) of the act of April 9, 1929

(P.L.177, No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929,

added March 21, 1970 (P.L.198, No.78), is amended to read:

Section 2501-C.  Powers and Duties in General.--The

Department of Community Affairs shall have the power, and its

duties shall be:

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(m)  To make grants to any two or more counties, cities,

boroughs, incorporated towns, townships, or any other similar

general purpose unit of government which shall hereafter be

created by the General Assembly, or to any body which is

authorized to act in behalf of two or more units of government,

for the purpose of assisting them in acting in concert in the

performance of any local governmental function or functions, or

for the purpose of conducting studies and investigations to

determine the feasibility and desirability of acting in concert

in the performance of local governmental functions. In any case

in which an economic and community development program funded by

the Commonwealth, is established for, or gives priority to joint

applications from, two or more municipalities, or to any body

which is authorized to act in behalf of two or more

municipalities, a municipality that has been formed in

accordance with 53 Pa.C.S. Ch. 7 Subch. C (relating to

consolidation and merger) shall, after the consolidation or

merger, qualify and be given the priority for the economic and

community development program in the same manner as if the

application had been made jointly by the two or more

municipalities that had merged or consolidated.

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