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55,382 acts of the General Assembly, from William Penn’s first assembly in 1682 to 2026. Until 1874 much of the Assembly’s work was “special” legislation for a single person, company or town: a divorce, a road, a tavern license. That year’s constitution barred local and special laws on most subjects, and the yearly count fell; lately it is about 150.

Not yet complete · The state has not yet digitized its session laws act by act for most years between 1851 and 1949. We filled what we could from scans of the printed volumes: every year from 1851 to 1875 and most sessions from 1877 to 1907. A computer read those titles, so they can contain misspellings, and a few acts in each year were missed. Most years from 1909 to 1949 are still thin (marked below). Every other year is complete, from 1682 through 1850 and from 1950 to today.

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1,402 laws of the 1920s

Constitution of 1874

  1. Act authorizing the issue and sale of bonds to the amount of fifty millions of dollars by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - amend - rate of interest

    Act ACT 1 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  2. For the relief of certain county treasurers and county tax collectors, in the settlement of county, poor, and State taxes, in cities of the third class

    Act ACT 10 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  3. Medical Practice Act - amend - equivalents for preliminary education; omitting certain required published notices; reconstituting a quorum; recasting and extending terms on which reciprocity may be established

    Act ACT 100 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  4. Act for the promotion of medical science by the distribution and use of unclaimed human bodies for scientific purposes - amend - imposing duties on all persons having charge of dead human required to be buried at the public expense; limiting the time with

    Act ACT 101 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  5. Public School Code - amend - temporary indebtedness

    Act ACT 102 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  6. To permit any corporation with capital stock and transacting the business of life insurance on the mutual plan or any life insurance corporation having capital stock incorporated under the provisions of any general or special law of this Commonwealth, to

    Act ACT 103 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  7. Act to create the Department of Public Printing and Binding - amend - senate and house journals.

    Act ACT 104 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  8. Act to provide for the immediate registration of all births and deaths throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - amend - salaries; place of birth; expenses

    Act ACT 105 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  9. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - division into wards; election districts shall constitute wards

    Act ACT 106 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  10. Act for the safety of persons from fire or panic in certain buildings, not in cities of the first and second classes, by providing proper exits, fire-escapes, fire-extinguishers, and other preventives of fire - amend - approval by Commissioner of Labor an

    Act ACT 107 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  11. Bureau of Statistics and Information Act

    Act ACT 108 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  12. State Workman's Insurance Fund Law - amend - officers and employees of the State Workman's Insurance Board shall be officers and employes of the Commonwealth

    Act ACT 109 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  13. To fix salaries of the judges of the Supreme Court and the judges of the Superior Court

    Act ACT 11 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  14. To quiet the title of real estate; and to enable citizens of the United States and corporations authorized to hold real estate within this Commonwealth to hold and convey title to real estate which has formerly been held or conveyed by, to, or for corpora

    Act ACT 110 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  15. Act providing for the joint acquisition and maintenance by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey of certain toll bridges over the Delaware River - amend - add citizens to joint commission

    Act ACT 111 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  16. Act to provide for retirement of State employes, permanently disqualified by reason of physical or mental disability to perform their official functions and duties - amend - conditions under which said employes can be retired; pension period; defining the

    Act ACT 112 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  17. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - settlement

    Act ACT 113 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  18. Act to encourage the breeding of horses - amend - now regulated by Bureau of Animal Industry of the Department of Agriculture instead of State Livestock Sanitary Board; repeal - section eleven

    Act ACT 114 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  19. Providing that the waiver of the inquisition on real estate contained in any note, bond, or other obligation shall be effective against and bind real estate on which the same is a lien, in the hands of the maker or obligor, and in the hands of any purchas

    Act ACT 115 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  20. Act to safeguard human life and health throughout the Commonwealth by providing for the reporting, quarantining, and control of diseases declared communicable and by regulation of the Department of Health - amend - quarantine in places designated

    Act ACT 116 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  21. Act providing for the payment into the State Treasury, without escheat, of certain moneys and property, subject to escheat under the provisions of any act of the General Assembly - amend - recovery of interest; notice of hearing

    Act ACT 117 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  22. Act providing for the payment into the State Treasury of unclaimed funds in the hands of fiduciaries - amend - funds discovered by Auditor General; unclaimed funds at final audit of account

    Act ACT 118 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  23. Act providing for the escheat of certain property received for storage or safe-keeping or otherwise and of certain deposits of money - amend - computation of period; forms and reports; notice by Auditor General; deposits

    Act ACT 119 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  24. First Class City Government Law - amend - repaving; improvements

    Act ACT 12 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  25. To fix the fees to be allowed the district attorney in counties of the third and fourth classes

    Act ACT 120 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  26. Act to provide for the personal registration of electors, and their enrollment as members of political parties, in cities of the first and second classes of this Commonwealth - amend - change in salaries of the employes of the registration commissioners

    Act ACT 121 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  27. Act regulating the collection of school and poor taxes in White township, Indiana county - repeal

    Act ACT 122 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  28. Prohibiting advertisements of cures or medicines relating to venereal diseases and certain sexual disorders

    Act ACT 123 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  29. Authorizing district attorneys in counties of the fourth class to appoint county detectives

    Act ACT 124 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  30. Act to provide for the incorporation and government of street railway companies in this Commonwealth - amend - changing the date of the annual meeting of the stock-holders of such companies

    Act ACT 125 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  31. Public School Employees' Retirement Law - amend - including employees of the Department of Public Instruction

    Act ACT 126 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  32. Public School Code - amend - U. S. and Pennsylvania Bonds

    Act ACT 127 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  33. Act defining commodities; regulating the sale thereof - amend - fruits or vegetables sold in Pennsylvania standard containers are exempt

    Act ACT 128 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  34. Act empowering the United States of America to acquire land in the State of Pennsylvania for National Forest Reserves - amend

    Act ACT 129 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  35. Act relative to the boarding of prisoners in the jail of Venango County - repeal

    Act ACT 13 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  36. Act for better protection of wild birds and game within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - amend - licenses

    Act ACT 130 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  37. Act to provide for the appointment of county and city inspectors of weights and measures - amend - jurisdiction

    Act ACT 131 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  38. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - additional widths of State Highways

    Act ACT 132 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  39. Relating to police pension funds in cities of the third class, and directing such cities to appropriate certain moneys thereto

    Act ACT 133 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  40. Act to amend, revise and consolidate the law providing for the burial of honorably discharged soldiers, sailors, and marines, at the expense of the counties in which they shall die or have a legal residence - amend - death while in service

    Act ACT 134 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  41. Act empowering and directing the county commissioners of any county to purchase ground at the county-seat for the erection thereon of such building or buildings as may be necessary for the accommodation of the courts, the several officers of the county, a

    Act ACT 135 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  42. Requiring persons, partnerships, associations, or corporations advertising for or soliciting business as adjusters of claims within this Commonwealth for loss or damage arising out of policies of insurance, surety, or indemnity on property, persons, or

    Act ACT 136 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  43. Providing that in computing the indebtedness of cities of the first class, the word "indebtedness" shall include all manner of debt; the moneys in the treasury, all outstanding solvent debts, and all revenues applicable within one year to the payment of t

    Act ACT 137 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  44. Act to regulate the deposits of State funds - amend - additional active depositaries

    Act ACT 138 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  45. Public School Code - amend - Cheyney Training School for Teachers

    Act ACT 139 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  46. Fixing the salaries of court criers and tipstaves in counties of the third class

    Act ACT 14 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  47. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - application to boroughs incorporated under special acts

    Act ACT 140 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  48. Authorizing the council of cities of the third class, whenever any city of such class shall have sold or leased the coal underlying any public park or common within the limits of said city, to apply the proceeds thereof for certain improvements of such pa

    Act ACT 141 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  49. Act to provide for the protection of agriculture and horticulture - amend - penalties

    Act ACT 142 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  50. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - commissioners in townships not divided into districts

    Act ACT 143 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  51. Act providing for the Delaware River Bridge Commission - amend - personnel of commission

    Act ACT 144 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  52. Validating certain proceedings and elections held pursuant to the act to regulate the manner of increasing the indebtedness of municipalities

    Act ACT 145 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  53. Act to provide for the personal registration of electors as a condition of their right to vote at elections, and their enrollment as members of political parties as a further condition of their right to vote at primaries, in cities of the first class - am

    Act ACT 146 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  54. Providing for the apportionment of wharfage and dockage in cities of the first class

    Act ACT 147 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  55. Providing for the apportionment of wharfage and dockage on the River Delaware and its tributaries, except in cities of the first class

    Act ACT 148 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  56. Act to establish a Board of Commissioners of Navigation for the River Delaware and its navigable tributaries - amend - enforcement of the rules and regulations made and promulgated by the commissioners

    Act ACT 149 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  57. Authorizing the erection and construction by counties of memorial halls in memory of the soldiers, sailors, and marines of such counties

    Act ACT 15 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  58. Requiring the examination and treatment for venereal diseases of prisoners convicted of crime or pending trial

    Act ACT 150 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  59. Empowering all corporations incorporated under the laws of the State of Pennsylvania for purposes not for profit to change, alter, and amend by by-law such provisions of their charters as are purely administrative

    Act ACT 151 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  60. Act supplementary to an act to provide for the appointment of county and city inspectors of weights and measures - amend - Babcock Glassware defined

    Act ACT 152 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  61. Requiring the assessors for county taxation purposes to collect certain agricultural information

    Act ACT 153 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  62. Requiring the display of the flag of the United States at entertainments, public gatherings, and public meeting

    Act ACT 154 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  63. Act creating, in countries having a population of from 800,000 to 1,500,000, a board for the assessment and revision of taxes - amend - salaries; time of making assessments

    Act ACT 155 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  64. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - letting of contracts for construction, improvement, or repair of public buildings and works

    Act ACT 156 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  65. State Highway Department Law - amend - coal tipples or other obstructions not allowed on State highways

    Act ACT 157 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  66. Providing exclusive methods for the collection of benefits assessed by viewers in proceedings incidental to public improvements, and providing for the filing of municipal liens therefor

    Act ACT 158 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  67. Regulating the selling, offering or exposing for sale of agricultural seeds and mixtures of the same for seeding purposes

    Act ACT 159 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  68. Act fixing the fees of the prothonotary for attendance in court, in counties having a population of less than seventy thousand - amend - making the provisions apply to counties of the sixth, seventh, and eighth classes

    Act ACT 16 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  69. Creating a commission to select an historic spot as a cemetery for the burial of bodies of soldiers, sailors, marines, war nurses, and members of the National Guard

    Act ACT 160 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  70. Act providing for the acquisition by the State of certain ground at Valley Forge for a public park - amend - number of citizens constituted commissioners

    Act ACT 161 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  71. Relating to the preparation of a new Constitution of the Commonwealth by a convention and its adoption or rejection by the people

    Act ACT 162 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  72. Public School Code - amend - teachers' salaries; qualification of county and district superintendents; repeal - section 1,212

    Act ACT 163 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  73. Act fixing the number and salaries of clerks and other employes in the Auditor General's Department - amend - salaries of Deputy Auditor General, Assistant Deputy Auditor General, revenue deputy, disbursing deputy, and assistant deputy

    Act ACT 164 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  74. Transfer Inheritance Tax Law - amend - rate of taxation

    Act ACT 165 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  75. Relating to weak-minded persons and lunatics; providing that service of process may be made upon next of kin of such persons and lunatics in the discretion of the court, and added as parties in all court proceedings

    Act ACT 166 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  76. Authorizing school districts of the fourth class to use moneys, borrowed or authorized to be borrowed for purposes which have proved impracticable or undesirable, for other lawful purposes

    Act ACT 167 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  77. Act providing for the manner of appointment of assessors, for the purpose of valuation of property, in counties containing a population of 1,250,000 or over - amend - applying to counties of the first class; appointment of assessors without regard to part

    Act ACT 168 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  78. Act for the protection of the public health: by providing that persons, firms, or corporations who are operating or conducting hotels, restaurants, dining-cars, or other public eating places in this Commonwealth, shall not employ any persons who are suffe

    Act ACT 169 OF1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  79. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - rate of interest

    Act ACT 17 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  80. Making it unlawful to give or offer money to secure proxies for use at meetings of insurance companies

    Act ACT 170 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  81. Act entitled an act to create a Bureau of Building Inspection - amend - use of portion of building for other purposes

    Act ACT 171 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  82. Act authorizing the Insurance Commissioner to proceed against and to take possession of any insolvent or delinquent company, order or association transacting any class of insurance - amend - directing the deposit and keeping of any moneys or funds which

    Act ACT 172 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  83. Act to provide for the protection and preservation of game, game-quadrupeds, and game-birds, and song and insectivorous and other wild birds - amend - duty of vendors or carriers; open seasons; limiting the number allowed killed a day; records; tags; mark

    Act ACT 173 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  84. Uniform Proof of Statutes Act

    Act ACT 174 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  85. Uniform Foreign Depositions Act

    Act ACT 175 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  86. Investment Business Licensing Law

    Act ACT 176 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  87. County Jail and Workhouse Parole Law - amend - extending to include houses of correction; power of parole shall extend for a period not to exceed the maximum sentence as provided by law

    Act ACT 177 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  88. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - increasing the powers of building and loan associations to purchase and hold real estate

    Act ACT 178 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  89. Providing for the burial of the bodies of indigent-persons by certain poor districts

    Act ACT 179 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  90. Act creating a Department of Health - amend - official seal; directing the Commissioner of Health to certify orders and regulations under seal; promulgation of advisory board orders and regulations

    Act ACT 18 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  91. Authorizing the several boroughs and townships to appropriate moneys for the support of county associations of boroughs and townships

    Act ACT 180 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  92. Empowering clerks designated by the board for the assessment and revision of taxes in counties of the second class to administer oaths and affirmations

    Act ACT 181 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  93. Making unlawful the use of any statement of fact in any advertisement which statement is untrue, deceptive, or misleading

    Act ACT 182 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  94. To provide separate accommodations for women jurors at the several court-houses, and providing that the separation of jurors in certain cases shall not work mistrials

    Act ACT 183 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  95. To empower the Public Service Commission to require railroad corporations to employ an adequate number of men upon trains; repeal an act to promote the safety of travelers and employes upon railroads, by compelling common carriers by railroad to properly

    Act ACT 184 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  96. Relating to poor districts coextensive with counties of the fourth class; authorizing the directors of such district to sell real estate no longer suitable for the support, maintenance, and employment of the poor and to purchase such real estate as may be

    Act ACT 185 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  97. Act to regulate the deposits of State funds - amend - fixing the rate of interest to be paid by active and nonactive depositaries

    Act ACT 186 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  98. To regulate and control the manufacture, sale, offering for sale, giving away, and use of weights and measures and of weighing and measuring devices in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    Act ACT 187 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  99. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - charter may be granted to a church for the purpose of the support of public worship and conducting a public burial ground or cemetery; imposing duties upon the trustees in relation to the sale of burial lots, the care and

    Act ACT 188 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

  100. Authorizing a State association of township supervisors and township commissioners

    Act ACT 189 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

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