Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,402 laws of the 1920s

Constitution of 1874

1. Act concerning game and other wild birds and wild animals - amend - establishment of game fund; purposes for which fund may be used; annual expenditure for propagation of game

   Act 409 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

2. Act concerning game and other wild birds and wild animals - amend - removal of protection; deer; penalties; killing game by mistake; return of penalty; destroying property

   Act 410 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

3. Penal Code of 1860 - amend - penalty for murder of the first degree shall be either death or life imprisonment

   Act 411 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

4. Creating a State Council for the Blind as a departmental administrative board within the Department of Welfare

   Act 412 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

5. The General Poor Relief Act of 1925

   Act 413 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

6. Act concerning game and other wild birds and wild animals - amend - auxiliary state game refuges; application and petitions for auxiliary refuges; entry upon refuges

   Act 414 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

7. Act concerning game and other wild birds and wild animals - amend - open season; bag limit

   Act 415 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

8. Transfer Inheritance Tax Law - amend - increasing the rate of the tax imposed by this act

   Act 416 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

9. Appropriation Law 328A (General Appropriation Act)

   Appropriation Act of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

10. Summary of Appropriations

    Appropriation Act of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

11. Concurrent Resolutions

    Resolution of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

12. Concurrent Resolutions

    Resolution of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

13. Concurrent Resolutions

    Resolution of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

14. Provide for the expenses of the extraordinary session of the Legislature of 1926

    Act 1 of 1926 · 1926 · Original text

15. Act providing for the erection and construction by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey of a bridge over the Delaware River, connecting the city of Philadelphia and the city of Camden - amend - authorizing the Pennsylvania

    Act 2 of 1926 · 1926 · Original text

16. Act concerning alcoholic liquors - amend - registering of federal permits; regulating under permit through a Pennsylvania Alcohol Permit Board the manufacture, production, distillation, development, use in manufacture, denaturization, redistillation,

    Act 3 of 1926 · 1926 · Original text

17. Authorizing the Secretary of Highways to direct employes of the Department of Highways to co-operate with the Auditor General in the collection of taxes paid into the Motor License Fund

    Act 4 of 1926 · 1926 · Original text

18. Act imposing a State tax, including an additional emergency State tax, on liquid fuels - amend - duties upon dealers in liquid fuels and upon persons, copartnerships, associations or corporations selling liquid fuels for resale; all dealers in liquid fuel

    Act 5 of 1926 · 1926 · Original text

19. Regulate the number of directors of banks, banking corporations and trust companies chartered under general or special laws of this Commonwealth

    Act 6 of 1926 · 1926 · Original text

20. Concurrent Resolutions

    Resolution of 1926 · 1926 · Original text

21. Concurrent Resolutions Not Requiring Action by the Governor

    Resolution of 1926 · 1926 · Original text

22. Providing for an additional associate judge of the separate Orphans' Court of the County of Philadelphia

    Act ACT 1 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

23. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - incorporation of first class corporations for the laying out, adopting, and improvement of highway routes and transcontinental highways; limiting the amount of real estate to be held by first class corporations

    Act ACT 10 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

24. Act relating to salaries, compensation, bonds, offices, and supplies of certain county officers in counties of the sixth class - amend - regulating the keeping of accounts by county officers

    Act ACT 100 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

25. Authorizing cities of the second class, for the purposes of preventing damage from floods, to provide for the cleansing, improvement, regulation, and control of streams and rivers and to construct public works within their respective limits

    Act ACT 101 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

26. Public School Code - amend - scholarships

    Act ACT 102 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

27. Declaring it a misdemeanor for any person, with intent to defraud, to obtain a motor vehicle, from the owner or person lawfully in possession thereof, by agreeing to pay a rental for the use thereof based in whole or in part upon the distance the motor

    Act ACT 103 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

28. State Highway Department Law - amend - conferring additional powers on the Secretary of Highways

    Act ACT 104 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

29. Relating to such highways as are opened by the order of the Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in proceedings relating to elimination of grade crossings

    Act ACT 105 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

30. Act conferring authority on the Department of Highways and any county or township to enter upon private property adjacent to any public road or highway and place thereon snow fence between December 1 and April 1 of the succeeding year - amend - snow fence

    Act ACT 106 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

31. Act regulating the closing of public highways, and providing for the locating, marking, and maintenance of detours - amend - when any borough street, forming a part of a State highway, is closed to vehicular traffic, the borough shall notify the Departmen

    Act ACT 107 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

32. Act requiring all petitions for the laying out or vacation of a public road to fix definitely the points of beginning and ending - amend - requiring the clerk of the court to certify the action of the court on the report of viewers

    Act ACT 108 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

33. Providing for the transfer of records and papers relating to roads from the Secretary of Internal Affairs to the Department of Highways

    Act ACT 109 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

34. Act establishing certain public roads as State highways - amend - route 512

    Act ACT 11 of 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

35. Validating deeds and mortgages or other instruments in writing affecting real estate of corporations, and joint stock or partnership associations, or limited partnerships, or registered partnerships, heretofore erroneously executed and acknowledged - enac

    Act ACT 110 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

36. Fixing the salary of the jail warden and jail physician in counties of the second class

    Act ACT 111 PF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

37. Act defining and regulating the business of dry cleaning and dyeing - amend - requiring the filing of more detailed plans of proposed buildings; changing building requirements

    Act ACT 112 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

38. To validate affidavits, acknowledgments, marriages, and other judicial acts, heretofore performed by justices of the peace of this Commonwealth within nine months after the expiration of their time for which they have been commissioned to act

    Act ACT 113 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

39. Authorizing boards of health to require roving bands, or bands of nomads, commonly called gypsies, declared to be nuisances or menaces to health, to leave municipalities

    Act ACT 114 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

40. Act providing for the erection and construction by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey of a bridge over the Delaware River, connecting the city of Philadelphia and the city of Camden - amend - conferring powers upon the Pennsylvan

    Act ACT 115 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

41. Providing for the abatement of nuisances in private alleys in cities of the third class

    Act ACT 116 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

42. Act concerning poor relief and the creation and government of poor districts and the administration of the same in all counties of the Commonwealth, except in counties of the first and second class - amend - constituting the county commissioners in certai

    Act ACT 117 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

43. Providing for the appointment of assessors of personal property in counties of the first class

    Act ACT 118 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

44. Act relating to the appointment of persons to the fire departments in the cities of the third class; constituting a civil service board in relation thereto - amend - bringing health officers, sanitary policemen, and inspectors of the health department in

    Act ACT 119 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

45. To quiet the title to 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 been formerly held by or for corporations not

    Act ACT 12 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

46. Act validating ordinances and proceedings by councils in boroughs for the paving and curbing of public highways - amend - extending to include improvements to cartways and footwalks

    Act ACT 120 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

47. Act concerning game and other wild birds and wild animals - amend - protecting the ruffed grouse

    Act ACT 121 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

48. Act creating a Department of Health - amend - penalty

    Act ACT 122 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

49. Act providing for the establishment and maintenance of boards of health in boroughs and townships of the first class - amend - appoint the members of the board of health or a health officer; requiring all health officers to be experienced in public health

    Act ACT 123 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

50. To provide for the care and treatment of the indigent insane of the several counties of the Commonwealth, in the State and semi-State hospitals for the insane

    Act ACT 124 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

51. Authorizing boroughs to levy and collect a special tax for the purpose of lighting the streets, highways, and other public places

    Act ACT 125 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

52. Act providing for the protection of the public health and the prevention of fraud and deception by regulating the weighing, testing, buying, and selling of milk and cream - amend - Secretary of Agriculture to issue license

    Act ACT 126 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

53. Act for the annexation of any city, borough, township, or part of a township, to a contiguous city - amend - requiring approval by the State Council of Education as a prerequisite to the annexation of part of a township to a contiguous city

    Act ACT 127 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

54. The Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - expenses of examination

    Act ACT 128 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

55. Authorizing council of cities of the second class to fix the salary of the mayor of said cities

    Act ACT 129 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

56. County Institutions for Delinquent Women Law

    Act ACT 13 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

57. Act to fix the number of Representatives in the General Assembly of the State and to apportion the State into representative districts - repeal

    Act ACT 130 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

58. Act to more clearly define the duties of sealers of weights and measures - repeal

    Act ACT 131 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

59. Act to prevent the adulteration of milk and prevent the traffic in impure and unwholesome milk - repeal

    Act ACT 132 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

60. Act to fix the salaries of the judges of the Supreme Court - repeal

    Act ACT 133 0F 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

61. Act to prevent the adulteration of, and the traffic in, impure and unwholesome milk in cities of the second and third classes - repeal

    Act ACT 134 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

62. Act to amend an act to regulate the publication of, apportionment, and distribution of, the pamphlet laws, executive and legislative documents, reports of the heads of departments, and the annual and biennial messages of the Governor - repeal

    Act ACT 135 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

63. Act to authorize the commissioners of the several counties of this Commonwealth to discharge from prison all persons confined in jail, without proceedings under the insolvent laws - repeal

    Act ACT 136 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

64. Act in relation to the public health and sanitary condition of cities of the second class - repeal

    Act ACT 137 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

65. Act to further regulate the admission of attorneys and counsellors at law to practice in the several courts of this Commonwealth - repeal

    Act ACT 138 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

66. Validating certain proceedings and elections had and held for the purpose of increasing the indebtedness of such municipalities

    Act ACT 139 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

67. The Pennsylvania Plant Pest Act of 1927

    Act ACT 14 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

68. To fix the salary of the coroner of counties of the fourth class

    Act ACT 140 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

69. Act establishing a fee bill - amend - increasing the fees of the coroner in counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth classes

    Act ACT 141 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

70. Relating to streets, lanes, or alleys that were originally laid out on plans of lots, and which have been vacated as public highways and thereafter closed as private ways

    Act ACT 142 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

71. Validating sheriffs' sales of real estate

    Act ACT 143 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

72. Public School Code - amend - electing a secretary in second, third, and fourth class districts

    Act ACT 144 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

73. Second Class County Jury Selection Law - amend - further exemptions from jury service; vesting in the commission in session discretionary power to withhold or withdraw from the jury wheels after investigation names prospective jurors

    Act ACT 145 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

74. Act relating to proceedings where goods or chattels have been levied upon or seized by the sheriff, and claimed to belong to others than the defendant in the execution or process - amend - effect of the nonfiling of an interpleading bond

    Act ACT 146 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

75. Act creating the office of county controller in counties of this Commonwealth containing 150,000 inhabitants and over - amend - applies to all counties having a population of 100,000 and over; amount which contracts must be advertised

    Act ACT 147 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

76. Authorizing fraternal benefit societies to provide for insurance and annuities upon the lives of the children

    Act ACT 148 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

77. Act relating to the organization, maintenance, and operation of the Department of Banking - amend - publishing in summary form a statement of the state and condition of building and loan associations

    Act ACT 149 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

78. Act providing for the admission of testimony given in ejectment suits upon a retrial and in subsequent real issues when the parties claim under a common source - repeal

    Act ACT 15 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

79. Act enlarging the powers of mutual savings fund or building and loan associations - amend - permitting building and loan associations to have contingent funds not in excess of fifteen per centum of their assets

    Act ACT 150 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

80. Authorizing a married woman, granted a divorce from bed and board, to convey and encumber her real estate, without the joinder of her husband

    Act ACT 151 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

81. Creating a commission to provide for the erection of an additional interstate bridge over the Delaware River between Philadelphia and a point in the State of New Jersey

    Act ACT 152 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

82. Act relating to the organization, maintenance, and operation of the Department of Banking - amend - requiring building and loan associations to pay the cost of examinations by the Department of Banking

    Act ACT 153 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

83. General Road Law - amend - limits of width fixed therein shall not include the additional width required to provide for necessary slopes

    Act ACT 154 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

84. To provide that all moneys received by the Department of Highways from the sale of maps, plans, blue prints, or certified copies, of any of the records of the Department of Highways, shall be deposited in the "Motor License Fund"

    Act ACT 155 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

85. Workmen's Compensation Act - amend - compensation schedules; hernia shall be considered as a physical weakness and compensable only when certain proof given; time limit for notice to employer; rehearings; payment of interest on certain compensation

    Act ACT 156 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

86. Authorizing cities of the third class to establish a pension fund for employes of said cities who are not now protected by pension authorized by the laws of this State

    Act ACT 157 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

87. Second Class City Law - amend - limiting the compensation of police magistrates

    Act ACT 158 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

88. Act imposing a State tax, including an additional emergency State tax, on liquid fuels - amend - amount and time of tax; disposition of tax

    Act ACT 159 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

89. Authorizing the judges of any court of the Commonwealth, in which two separate panels of jurors are in attendance at the same time, to draw jurors from either panel when the other panel shall have been exhausted

    Act ACT 16 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

90. First Class City Government Law - amend - power to make investigations and inquiries

    Act ACT 160 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

91. Providing for the refunding of moneys deposited by the Department of Highways in the State Treasury through mistake or error, or to which moneys it sufficiently appears that the Commonwealth has no lawful claim

    Act ACT 161 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

92. Act to regulate the manner of increasing the indebtedness of municipalities - amend - "public corporation" defined; authority to increase indebtedness; abandonment of power; certificate of abandonment

    Act ACT 162 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

93. Act concerning the identification and marking of graves of soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War - amend - making an appropriation; monument in cemetery

    Act ACT 163 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

94. Administrative Code - amend - reorganizing the executive and administrative work of the Commonwealth by the Executive Department; the Department of Revenue; the Department of Internal Affairs; powers and duties of the Governor; salaries

    Act ACT 164 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

95. The Securities Act

    Act ACT 165 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

96. Imposing a State tax on liquid fuels

    Act ACT 166 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

97. Act imposing a State tax on liquid fuels - amend - exempting kerosene, fuel oil, and gas oil

    Act ACT 167 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

98. Providing for the acquisition by the Department of Forests and Waters of lands in Jefferson, Forest, and Clarion Counties, Pennsylvania, belonging to the A. Cook sons company, for use as a State Park and Forest Reservation

    Act ACT 168 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

99. Authorizing any natural gas company, or any manufactured gas company, incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth, to sell, assign, dispose of, convey, or lease to any natural has company its franchises and property or any part thereof

    Act ACT 169 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

100. Act authorizing county commissioners to establish lights on county bridges - amend - establishment of lights on county bridges located partly in one county and partly in another county or counties; requiring lights on certain county bridges

     Act ACT 17 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text