Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,802 laws of the 1900s

Constitution of 1874

1. To aid the Auditor General in the collection of taxes due the Commonwealth from corporations, limited partnerships and joint-stock associations

   Act 213 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

2. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - adding theatre to the purposes for which corporations may be formed

   Act 214 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

3. Act creating a Banking Department - amend - fees to be paid by corporations

   Act 215 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

4. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - providing for the merger and consolidation of certain corporations

   Act 216 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

5. To provide for the recording, in certain instances, of titles to real estate acquired by twenty-one years' adverse possession

   Act 217 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

6. Act to make the carrying on of the business of detectives without license a misdemeanor, and to regulate the licensing and powers of detectives - amend - repealing the proviso that the said act shall not apply to agents or employes of business

   Act 218 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

7. Act to facilitate the labors of the justices of the Supreme Court by providing suitable clerical assistance - amend - further facilitating the labors of the justices of the said court by providing stenographers, typewriters, and clerical assistance for th

   Act 219 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

8. Act to amend an act relative to the distribution of the proceeds of sheriffs' sales of real estate in the county of Allegheny - amend - extend to all counties in this Commonwealth

   Act 220 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

9. Authorizing the abandonment by turnpike road or highway companies of such portions of their turnpike roads or highways as are separated, as to ownership or possession, from the longest continuous portion thereof remaining in the possession or ownership

   Act 221 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

10. To authorize and empower the councils of cities of the first class to regulate by ordinance the manufacture, storage, sale, transportation and use of high explosives, chemicals, combustibles, benzine and other petroleum or coal-tar products, and all

    Act 222 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

11. Act to provide for the classification of townships of the Commonwealth - amend - imposing a penalty for non-payment of township taxes in certain cases

    Act 223 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

12. To regulate assessments in cities of the second class

    Act 224 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

13. Act to regulate boroughs - amend - designating who shall make application for a borough, previously incorporated, to become subject to the restrictions and possess the powers and privileges conferred by said act

    Act 225 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

14. Validating the indebtedness of municipalities incurred in the erection and construction of waterworks

    Act 226 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

15. Providing that where any corporation or company, authorized to become surety in any bond or undertaking in any case, for the performance of any trust or duty, action, suit or other legal proceedings may be brought on said bond or undertaking in the

    Act 227 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

16. Providing when, how, upon what property, and to what extent, liens shall be allowed for taxes, and for municipal improvements, and for the removal of nuisances

    Act 228 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

17. Conferring upon mutual savings fund or building and loan associations, now incorporated, or hereafter to be incorporated, the right to receive, in writing, bids of premium for priority, and making valid all such bids heretofore accepted

    Act 229 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

18. To regulate the compensation of the directors and auditors of the poor district of the city of Carbondale, being a supplement to an act to regulate the affairs of the body corporate known as the directors of the poor of the city of Carbondale

    Act 230 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

19. Relating to insolvency; embracing voluntary assignments for the benefit of creditors, and adverse proceedings in insolvency by creditors; forbidding certain preferences; providing for the distribution of the insolvent's estate, and in certain contingencie

    Act 231 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

20. Regulating trusts arising from the payment of the purchase money of land by one person, and the taking of the legal title in the name of another

    Act 233 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

21. To validate affidavits, acknowledgments and other notarial acts, heretofore performed by notaries public of this Commonwealth within three months after the expiration of the time for which they have been commissioned to act

    Act 234 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

22. Act relating to judgments and the acknowledgment of deeds and the sequestration of life estates - amend - nonresident tenant for life; notice by advertisement

    Act 235 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

23. Prescribing the time and manner of submitting to the people, for their approval and ratification or rejection, a proposed amendment to the Constitution

    Act 236 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

24. Act amending an act providing for the annual assignment to the sinking fund of the Commonwealth of certain sums of money realized out of the general revenues - repeal

    Act 237 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

25. Act providing for the annual assignment to the sinking fund of the Commonwealth of certain sums of money realized out of the general revenues - repeal - section one

    Act 238 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

26. For the establishment of boards of city trusts, in certain cities of this Commonwealth

    Act 239 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

27. Defining the rights and liabilities of parties to, and regulating the effect of, contracts for work and labor to be done, and labor or materials to be furnished, to any building, bridge, wharf, dock, pier, subway, tramway, toll-road, tunnel, mine, coal-br

    Act 240 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

28. Act to create a Bureau of Building Inspection and to regulate the construction, maintenance and inspection of buildings and party walls in cities of the first class - amend - passageways and fronts in buildings for public entertainment; location of doorwa

    Act 241 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

29. Prescribing the time and manner of submitting to the people, for their approval and ratification or rejection, a proposed amendment to the Constitution

    Act 242 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

30. Authorizing municipalities to define and fix the terms for the use of public parks, or grounds of any kind, for railroad purposes

    Act 243 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

31. Relating to the arrest and punishment of professional thieves, burglars and pickpockets

    Act 244 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

32. Providing for the examination, licensure and registration of persons, firms or corporations engaged or engaging in the business or work of plumbing or house drainage, and prescribing certain rules, regulations and requirements for the construction of

    Act 245 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

33. Relative to the appointment of police for street passenger railways incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth

    Act 246 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

34. To authorize the township commissioners, in townships of the first class, to lay out, widen, open and vacate streets and the highways within their respective townships, at the expense of the township or the properties benefited

    Act 247 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

35. Act authorizing the election of an additional supervisor in Susquehanna township, in the county of Dauphin - repeal

    Act 248 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

36. Act to confer power on the several orphans' courts having jurisdiction of the accounts of executors and administrators to order and direct a sale, for the payment of the debts of such decedent, of any lands lying partly in two or more counties - amend - c

    Act 249 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

37. To provide for the incorporation and government of passenger railways, either elevated or underground, or partly elevated and partly underground, with surface rights

    Act 251 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

38. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - publication in separate pamphlet form of a certified list of all charters of incorporation

    Act 252 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

39. Relating to railroad crossings of highways, and for the regulation, alteration and abolition of grade crossings, except in cities of the first and second classes

    Act 253 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

40. Supplement to an act to create a sinking fund, and to provide for the gradual and certain extinguishment of the debt of the Commonwealth - amend - relieving stock brokers, bill brokers, and exchange brokers from the provisions of said act

    Act 254 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

41. Act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the anthracite coal mines of Pennsylvania - amend - changed number of inspection districts from eight to six

    Act 255 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

42. Supplement to an act to establish an Insurance Department - amend - regulation of insurance corporations, incorporated for the purpose of insuring, upon the mutual principle, against personal injury, disablement or death, resulting from traveling, acciden

    Act 256 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

43. For the protection of trees, shrubs, vines, and plants, known as nursery stock, against destructive insects

    Act 257 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

44. To allow legitimate and illegitimate children, born from the same mother, dying without children, to inherit real and personal property from each other, in exclusion to the grandmother of the illegitimate child, or children, as though they had been born

    Act 258 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

45. Providing that the president of council in all boroughs shall exercise the duties of burgess in the absence or disqualification of that official

    Act 259 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

46. Relating to townships of the first class; providing a method for procedure for violations of law and township ordinances, and for collection of fines and penalties imposed for said violations

    Act 260 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

47. Act relating to the granting of permits for the emptying or removing of the contents of privy wells or cesspools, in cities of the second class - repeal

    Act 261 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

48. Act relating to proceedings in partition and other actions, and for the appointment of committees, ad litem, therein when any of the defendants are lunatic or persons of weak mind - amend - extend to proceedings in the orphans' court; enlarge the powers o

    Act 262 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

49. Making the wilful and malicious taking or removal of the waste or packaging from out any journal-box or boxes of any locomotive, engine, tender, carriage, coach, car, caboose, or truck, used or operated upon any railroad, whether operated by steam or

    Act 263 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

50. Act authorizing and empowering boroughs and incorporated towns to take, use and appropriate private property for necessary public buildings and works within the corporate limits of such municipality

    Act 264 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

51. To provide for the election of one person to fill the office of prothonotary, the office of clerk of the courts of general quarter sessions and oyer and terminer, the office of register of wills and clerk of the orphans' court, and the office of recorder

    Act 265 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

52. Act to amend an act relating to brokers and private bankers - amend - imposing a tax of one per centum upon the gross receipts of stock brokers, bill brokers, exchange brokers, and private bankers

    Act 266 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

53. Authorizing the overseers of the poor, director or directors of the poor, and all other officers or boards having the charge or control of the poor, in the several cities of the third class of this Commonwealth, to furnish relief, without first obtaining

    Act 267 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

54. To limit the amount of loans to officers and directors of banks, trust companies, and savings institutions, with capital stock, incorporated in this Commonwealth, and prohibiting loans upon the security of the capital stock of such corporations - enactmen

    Act 268 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

55. Act to limit the duration of the lien of debts of decedents, other than those of record, on their real estate - amend - extend to limit the duration of the lien upon real estate of the decedents, other than those secured by mortgage or by judgment entered

    Act 269 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

56. To provide for the licensing of hawkers and peddlers in the boroughs and townships of the Commonwealth

    Act 270 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

57. Act to provide revenue by imposing a mercantile license tax on vendors of or dealers in goods, wares and merchandise - amend - extending the time for bringing suit for delinquent mercantile taxes from ten to thirty days

    Act 271 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

58. To authorize and empower any telephone corporation to buy and own the capital stock of any other or like corporation, and to acquire the franchises, property, rights and credits of the latter, for the purpose of connecting the two into a continuous

    Act 272 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

59. Authorizing and directing the Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to pay to the trustees of the Job Mann Trust the sum of 255 dollars and 33 cents, erroneously paid the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by said trust

    Act 273 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

60. To refund to Mary H. Gheen the sum of 25 dollars, paid in duplicate for commission as notary public

    Act 274 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

61. Authorizing boroughs of this Commonwealth to require the planting of shade-trees along the public streets thereof, by the owners of abutting property

    Act 275 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

62. For the establishment and maintenance of public libraries in cities of the second and third class and in boroughs

    Act 276 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

63. Act to provide for the incorporation and government of passenger railways, either elevated or underground, or partly elevated and partly underground, with surface rights - amend - authorizing the building of either an elevated or underground railway,

    Act 277 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

64. Authorizing the several courts of quarter sessions of this Commonwealth to grant licenses to sell intoxicating liquors at retail, wholesale or by brewers, for a longer or shorter period than one year in certain cases, but only for the purpose of changing

    Act 278 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

65. Authorizing the town councils of the several boroughs of this State to pay a portion of the cost and expense of grading and curbing sidewalks

    Act 279 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

66. To regulate and define the boundary lines of public roads

    Act 280 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

67. Authorizing the transfer, upon the books of the corporation, of lots in cemeteries, owned by the corporations of the first class

    Act 281 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

68. Act for the protection of persons unable to care for their own property - amend - confer concurrent jurisdiction upon the orphans' court; enable additional persons to petition; enlarge the powers of the guardian; authorize the sale of the real estate of t

    Act 282 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

69. To prohibit the manufacture and sale of fire-crackers containing dynamite

    Act 283 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

70. Providing that no company hereafter formed for the purpose of construction and operation of a passenger railway, either elevated or underground, with incidental surface rights, shall be incorporated except where the same shall be located upon streets in

    Act 284 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

71. Relating to the collection of city, school and poor taxes, in the several cities of the third class in this Commonwealth, and providing that the city treasurer of each of said cities, by virtue of his office, shall be the collector of the said several tax

    Act 285 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

72. To provide for the registration of labels, trade-marks, trade-names, stamps, designs, devices, shopmarks, terms, brands, designations, descriptions, or forms of advertisement, and protect and secure the rights, property and interest therein of the persons

    Act 286 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

73. To prevent the importation and sale, in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, of dressed carcasses of lamb and sheep with the hoofs on

    Act 287 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

74. Second Class City Law - amend - empowering the city councils to establish a pension fund for policemen and firemen; appointment and compensation of delinquent tax collectors; appointment and election of officers; vesting the veto power in the city

    Act 288 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

75. To provide for the immediate printing and distribution of advance sheets of the laws of this Commonwealth as they are enacted from time to time, to persons making application therefor

    Act 289 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

76. To tax all orders, checks, dividers, coupons, pass-books, or other paper, representing wages or earnings of an employe, not paid in cash to the employe or member of his family

    Act 290 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

77. Making it unlawful for first cousins to be joined in marriage, and declaring all marriages contracted after January 1, 1902, in violation of this act, void

    Act 291 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

78. To authorize the school directors of townships having a population of over 4,000 inhabitants to employ one person, holding a permanent certificate or diploma issued by a State Normal School of this Commonwealth, as supervising principal of the schools of

    Act 292 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

79. Act making an appropriation for the State Hospital for the Insane at Warren, Pennsylvania, for the years 1883 and 1884 - repeal - part of first section

    Act 293 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

80. Act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of companies, not for profit, organized for the encouragement of the arts and sciences and of agriculture and horticulture, and to confer on such companies the right of eminent domain - amend - enabling

    Act 294 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

81. Act to provide for the centralization of township schools, and to provide high schools for townships - amend - no school shall be abolished where it is impracticable for the pupils to be conveyed to the school established at the point of centralization

    Act 295 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

82. Authorizing appeals from the decision of the various courts of common pleas, in assessment of taxes cases, to the Supreme or Superior Court of the Commonwealth

    Act 296 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

83. To establish in cities of the first and second class a house or houses of detention for delinquent, dependent and neglected children, and providing for the management and maintenance thereof

    Act 297 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

84. Authorizing corporations, organized for profit, to purchase, hold, sell, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge, or otherwise dispose of, the shares of capital stock of, or any bonds, securities or evidences of indebtedness created by, any other corporation -

    Act 298 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

85. Act to secure the cities of Pittsburgh and Allegheny, and the neighborhood thereof, from damage by gun-powder; to incorporate an association for the establishment of a House of Refuge for western Pennsylvania; and relative to the Pennsylvania State

    Act 299 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

86. Providing that persons charged with certain felonies shall be triable exclusively in the courts of oyer and terminer and general jail delivery

    Act 300 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

87. Conferring jurisdiction upon the courts of common pleas of the counties of this Commonwealth to authorize the adoption of children in the said county, by a person living in another State, upon petition of either parent of such child

    Act 301 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

88. Authorizing corporations organized under the laws of Pennsylvania to increase or diminish the par value of the shares of their capital stock

    Act 302 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

89. To provide for reviewing the proceedings of township road commissioners in laying out, opening and vacating roads

    Act 303 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

90. Act regulating the proceedings of justices of the peace and aldermen in cases or trespass, trover and rent - amend - action of trespass

    Act 304 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

91. Authorizing, empowering and directing the county commissioners of the counties of this Commonwealth to pay to the constables of their respective counties, for the services rendered by such constables in making returns to the court, and for attending gener

    Act 305 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

92. To encourage the planting of trees along the roadsides of this Commonwealth, and providing a penalty for killing, removing or injuring the same

    Act 306 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

93. Making it willful trespass to hunt, trap, and take game birds or game animals upon cultivated lands

    Act 308 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

94. Relating to the service of certain process in actions at law, and the effect thereof, and providing who shall be made parties to certain writs

    Act 310 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

95. Act to amend an act authorizing the county commissioners of the counties of this Commonwealth to build bridges on sites owned by corporations or by private persons, or built by public subscriptions over any stream or river forming the boundary line betwee

    Act 311 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

96. Act supplementary to the several acts relating to the State Treasurer and to the commissioners of the sinking fund - amend - monthly report of State Treasurer to be recorded and published

    Act 312 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

97. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - authorize the formation of corporations for any lawful purpose not otherwise specifically provided for by act of Assembly

    Act 313 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

98. Act authorizing the formation of partnerships in which one or more, or all of the partners, may limit their liability for the debts of the partnership to the amount of capital subscribed by such partner or partners, respectively - amend - excepting and ex

    Act 314 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

99. Act to provide for the classification of the townships of the Commonwealth - amend - authorizing such townships to enter into contracts with any person or corporation to supply water for fire protection

    Act 315 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text

100. Act making it unlawful for district attorneys to stand aside jurors in empaneling any jury in the trial of any indictment charging a felony or a misdemeanor in any court of this Commonwealth, and regulating the challenging of jurors by the Commonwealth an

     Act 316 of 1901 · 1901 · Original text