PRINTER'S NO. 3763
No. 2633 Session of 2000
INTRODUCED BY BATTISTO, SCHULER, DeWEESE, RUBLEY, GEIST, ARGALL,
ARMSTRONG, BELARDI, CAPPABIANCA, M. COHEN, CORRIGAN, COSTA,
FAIRCHILD, GEORGE, GRUCELA, HORSEY, LAUGHLIN, McCALL, MELIO,
NICKOL, PESCI, PISTELLA, PRESTON, SANTONI, SHANER, SOLOBAY,
STABACK, WALKO, PETRARCA, YOUNGBLOOD, COLAFELLA, WOJNAROSKI,
TANGRETTI AND VAN HORNE, JUNE 14, 2000
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON STATE GOVERNMENT, JUNE 14, 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 disposition of unserviceable personal property and surplus or
22 unserviceable road, bridge materials or equipment.
23 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
24 hereby enacts as follows:
25 Section 1. Section 510 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L.177,
26 No.175), known as The Administrative Code of 1929, amended July
1 18, 1969 (P.L.165, No.67), is amended to read:
2 Section 510. Disposition of Unserviceable Personal Property;
3 Surplus or Unserviceable Road, Bridge Materials or Equipment.--
4 Whenever any furnishings, or other personal property of this
5 Commonwealth, shall be no longer of service to the Commonwealth,
6 it shall be the duty of the department, board, or commission, in
7 whose possession such property shall be or come, to put such
8 property into the custody of the Department of Property and
9 Supplies: Provided, however, That in the case of any perishable
10 property which is not in the city of Harrisburg, the department,
11 board, or commission, having possession of the same, may sell it
12 in such manner, and upon such terms, as the head of the
13 department, or the board, or commission, may determine: And
14 provided further, That any road or bridge materials or equipment
15 that have been declared surplus or unserviceable by the
16 Department of [Highways] Transportation shall be offered for
17 sale to counties, cities, boroughs, incorporated towns [and],
18 townships and municipal authorities at the best available price
19 by the Department of [Property and Supplies] General Services.
20 Written notification of the availability of such material and
21 equipment shall be given to all counties, cities, boroughs,
22 incorporated towns [and], townships and municipal authorities in
23 the highway district in which such material and equipment was
24 last used. If more than one such political subdivision requests
25 the same material or equipment, any sale shall be made to the
26 political subdivision making the highest letter bid. No sale
27 shall be consummated until after a minimum of fifteen (15) days
28 from the date of mailing the notification. All such material and
29 equipment shall be used by the procuring political subdivision
30 upon roads, streets and bridges. All moneys received for such
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1 material shall be deposited in the Motor License Fund.
2 "Unserviceable property," as used in this section, shall not
3 include products manufactured, grown, or raised, by any
4 department, board, or commission, or by the inmates or patients
5 of any State institution, or minerals, oil, gas, or other
6 materials, taken from any property of the Commonwealth. It shall
7 include only articles previously purchased by the Commonwealth,
8 or any agency thereof, and paid for out of funds of or in the
9 control of the Commonwealth.
10 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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