Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,402 laws of the 1920s

Constitution of 1874

1. Authorizing building and loan associations to issue stocks to minors

   Act ACT 261 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

2. Fixing the salary of the mayor and members of the council in cities of the second class A

   Act ACT 262 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

3. Act to authorize and require the county commissioners of the several counties of this Commonwealth to furnish a room for the judges learned in the law of the courts of common pleas and orphans' courts - amend - room shall be furnished to justices of the

   Act ACT 263 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

4. Providing for the presentation of libels in divorce to the several courts of common pleas and the awarding of subpoenas thereon

   Act ACT 264 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

5. 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 - petition to court for guardianship of pauper

   Act ACT 265 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

6. Authorizing the Secretary of Highways to join two or more State highway routes, by the construction of connecting roads

   Act ACT 266 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

7. Providing for the postponement of the lien of a mortgage and bond accompanying the same to the lien of another mortgage or mortgages and bond accompanying

   Act ACT 267 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

8. Permitting townships of the first and second classes to connect for sewage purposes with existing sewers owned by adjacent municipalities

   Act ACT 268 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

9. Act providing for the incorporation, regulation, and government of cities of the third class - amend - grading and paving of sidewalks

   Act ACT 269 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

10. Authorizing the Secretary of Forests and Waters to refund moneys contributed by citizens, corporations, municipalities, and counties for the purpose of deepening, widening, and improving French Creek in Crawford County

    Act ACT 27 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

11. Providing for a system of recording the identification of persons convicted of a crime, and of fugitives from justice, and habitual criminals

    Act ACT 270 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

12. State Workmen's Insurance Fund Law - amend - payments on requisition of Secretary of Labor and Industry; payment for securities; payments from fund

    Act ACT 271 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

13. Rendering cheques issued by the State Treasurer void unless presented for payment within sixty days from the date thereof

    Act ACT 272 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

14. Act relating to county bridges, authorizing counties to issue and sell bonds for the erection and for the acquisition of toll bridges - amend - payment from tolls collected of the expenses of operating and maintaining such bridge

    Act ACT 273 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

15. Act to authorize the judges of the several courts throughout the Commonwealth to fix the number of regular terms of said several courts and the times for holding the same - amend - authorizing the judges to fix the time of holding jury trials; holding ove

    Act ACT 274 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

16. Act relating to and regulating the use and operation of motor vehicles and vehicles propelled by, or trailing after, motor vehicles - amend - prohibiting the stopping of any motor vehicle by an officer or other person for the purpose of selling tickets, o

    Act ACT 275 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

17. Act authorizing removal of county jails, prisons, or workhouses from public parks, squares, or commons, in counties of the fourth class, and the erection of new county jails, prisons, or workhouses at or near the county-seat - amend - regulating the

    Act ACT 276 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

18. Act authorizing the erection of workhouses in the several counties of this Commonwealth - amend - increasing the amount of acreage allowed for such purposes

    Act ACT 277 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

19. Fiduciaries Act of 1917 - amend - enlarging the class of persons who may institute proceedings as to presumed decedents and enlarging the powers of the court in the matter thereof

    Act ACT 278 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

20. Fiduciaries Act of 1917 - amend - removing the requirement for the probate of wills and letters under which foreign fiduciaries are acting

    Act ACT 279 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

21. Supplement to an act regulating banks - repeal

    Act ACT 28 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

22. Providing penalties for trespassing on grounds of State institutions and for refusing to leave such grounds after notice

    Act ACT 280 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

23. Act for the prevention and treatment of mental diseases, mental defect, epilepsy, and inebriety - amend - person detained in prison thought to be a mental defective; stay of criminal proceedings; criminal patient not to be discharged until sentence expire

    Act ACT 281 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

24. Act to create a Bureau of Building Inspection - amend - extent and ventilation of cellars; free air space

    Act ACT 282 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

25. For the protection of the public health by regulating the conduct and operation of public eating and drinking places within this Commonwealth

    Act ACT 283 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

26. Relating to the lien of mortgages and defeasible deeds in the nature of mortgages

    Act ACT 284 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

27. Act to quiet the title of real estate by providing that the sale of real estate of any bankrupt or insolvent debtor shall pass the title of such real estate freed from any claims for, or rights to, any statutory interest inchoate of the spouse of the bank

    Act ACT 285 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

28. Child Labor Law - amend - agreement for continuation school

    Act ACT 286 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

29. Act concerning game and other wild birds and wild animals - amend - unlawful to hunt with any vehicle

    Act ACT 287 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

30. Act providing for the burial of soldiers, sailors, or marines, designated as 'deceased service men' - amend - adding members of the enlisted nurse corps; sum to be spent

    Act ACT 288 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

31. Orphans' Court Partition Act of 1917 - amend - petitioners

    Act ACT 289 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

32. Act for the assignment of judges to districts other than their own - amend - extending to judges of orphans' courts

    Act ACT 29 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

33. Authorizing the Department of Highways to cause grasses, shrubs, and vines to be planted and maintained along State highways

    Act ACT 290 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

34. State Fire Marshal Law

    Act ACT 291 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

35. Act to prevent the manufacture and sale of adulterated or misbranded drugs; defining the word 'drug' - amend - what deemed to be adulterated and misbranded

    Act ACT 292 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

36. Authorizing municipalities to acquire by gift or bequest, and to operate and maintain motor ambulances

    Act ACT 293 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

37. Providing for the sale or disposition of personal property owned by joint owners, not partners, or husband and wife, on petition of one of such joint owners

    Act ACT 294 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

38. Act regulating the satisfaction of mortgages where the legal presumption of the payment of the same exists from the lapse of time - amend - date of maturity of a mortgages shall be one year from the acknowledgement thereof, when such mortgage fixes no

    Act ACT 295 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

39. Act requiring the county commissioners to provide, at the expense of the county, a telephone, typewriter, and stenographer for the use of the county superintendent of schools - amend - in counties having less than three hundred teachers, the stenographer

    Act ACT 296 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

40. To regulate the pay of witnesses in this Commonwealth

    Act ACT 297 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

41. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - petition for lighting of streets or highways

    Act ACT 298 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

42. Fire and Panic Act

    Act ACT 299 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

43. Validating, ratifying, and confirming all bonds, certificates of indebtedness, securities, and obligations, issued or to be issued, by any city of the first class, for money borrowed for any public exposition celebrating the Sesqui-Centennial anniversary

    Act ACT 3 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

44. Act providing for the incorporation, regulation, and government of cities of the third class - amend - procedure for changing the corporate title of any such city

    Act ACT 30 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

45. Act relating to counties and townships and county and township officers - amend - permitting county treasurers to be reimbursed for necessary expenses incurred in collecting and transmitting money for the Commonwealth out of fees for fish, hunters, and do

    Act ACT 300 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

46. Requiring nonresidents to appoint a local attorney-in-fact before taking out letters testamentary or of administration

    Act ACT 301 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

47. The Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - including service of legal process upon foreign insurance companies, associations, or exchanges

    Act ACT 302 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

48. Act to authorize and require the entering and indexing of judgments and decrees of the United States circuit and district courts for the purpose of lien within the several counties of this Commonwealth - repeal

    Act ACT 303 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

49. Act providing for the election of members of the select council of cities of the fifth class where said cities have not been divided into wards - repeal

    Act ACT 304 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

50. Act fixing and regulating the terms of certain officers in cities of the fourth class - repeal

    Act ACT 305 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

51. Act regulating the assessment and collection of taxes in cities of the fifth class - repeal

    Act ACT 306 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

52. An act to provide for the holding of courts in certain cities of this Commonwealth

    Act ACT 307 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

53. Act authorizing select and common councils of cities of the second class to name the hour of holding their session - repeal

    Act ACT 308 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

54. Act to designate the several judicial districts of the Commonwealth as required by the Constitution - repeal

    Act ACT 309 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

55. Public School Employes' Retirement Law - amend - extending the time for a "present employe" to elect to be covered by the retirement system

    Act ACT 31 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

56. Act relating to the support and employment of the poor - repeal - section 8

    Act ACT 310 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

57. Act to authorize the president judges of the several judicial districts of this Commonwealth to procure the assistance of president or additional law judges of another district in the transaction of business in the several courts of such district - repeal

    Act ACT 311 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

58. Act to secure to operatives and laborers, engaged in and about coal mines, manufactories of iron and steel, and all other manufactories, the payment of their wages at regular interval and in lawful money of the United States - repeal

    Act ACT 312 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

59. Act to regulate the fees of the county treasurer of the counties of Elk and Forest - repeal

    Act ACT 313 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

60. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - non-voting members of county association

    Act ACT 314 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

61. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - incorporation of associations of taxpayers for the encouragement and promotion of good government in any county, city, borough, or township

    Act ACT 315 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

62. General Road Law - amend - laying out and opening of private roads to lands owned by the Commonwealth

    Act ACT 316 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

63. State Highway Department Law - amend - state aid in counties of the seventh and eighth classes

    Act ACT 317 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

64. Act to reduce the State debt, and to incorporate the Pennsylvania canal and railroad company - amend - discontinuing the tax on horses, mare, and neat cattle over the age of four years

    Act ACT 318 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

65. Act to provide for the appointment of assistant district attorneys in the several counties having over 90,000 and less than 750,000 inhabitants - amend - salaries of assistant district attorneys

    Act ACT 319 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

66. To validate acts done by corporations before the recording of their charters

    Act ACT 32 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

67. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - permitting township authorities to close roads

    Act ACT 320 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

68. The Fish Law of 1925 - amend - refunding fishing license fees erroneously paid

    Act ACT 321 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

69. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - authorizing the grading, paving, or macadamizing of streets or highways by supervisors in townships of the second class at the expense of the abutting property owners

    Act ACT 322 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

70. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - sidewalks; petition of owners; construction by supervisors

    Act ACT 323 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

71. Act to provide for the immediate registration of all births and deaths throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - amend - exempting soldiers, sailors, marines, war nurses, and their dependents, from the payment of fees for certified copies of birth,

    Act ACT 324 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

72. Act concerning townships; consolidating the laws relating thereto - amend - minute book and other records and documents of townships of the second class shall be open to the inspection of any taxpayer thereof

    Act ACT 325 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

73. Act providing for the organization, government, discipline, maintenance, and regulation of the armed land forces of this Commonwealth - amend - authorizing the Governor to place the National Guard on active duty; retirement of officers and enlisted men

    Act ACT 326 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

74. Authorizing churches, cemetery companies, and burial associations to lease of convey coal and other minerals

    Act ACT 327 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

75. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - amounts to be paid for specific improvements

    Act ACT 328 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

76. State Highway Department Law - amend - conformation to standard except where connection of highways already improved

    Act ACT 329 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

77. To validate certain borough warrants, authorized and issued for valid municipal indebtedness and countersigned by borough controllers

    Act ACT 33 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

78. Authorizing cities of the first class to condemn, enter upon, take appropriate, occupy, and use street railway transit facilities and properties used and useful in connection with the transportation of passengers by street, underground, or elevated railwa

    Act ACT 330 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

79. Granting additional equity powers to counts of common pleas to prevent, restrain, and abate encroachments on public sidewalks in front of residences, churches, hotels, apartment houses, or retail stores contrary to law

    Act ACT 331 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

80. Fixing the salaries of the county controller, recorder of deeds and clerk of courts in counties of the third class

    Act ACT 332 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

81. Act authorizing the sale, assignment, disposition, transfer, and conveyance of the franchises and of the property, of any water or power water companies organized prior to the first day of April, 1905, to another water or water power company also organize

    Act ACT 333 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

82. Act authorizing the merger and consolidation of water or water power companies organized prior to the first day of April, 1905 - amend - merger and consolidation

    Act ACT 334 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

83. To validate private sales of real estate, by cities of the third class heretofore made

    Act ACT 335 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

84. Concerning boroughs, and revising, amending, and consolidating the law relating to boroughs.

    Act ACT 336 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

85. Relating to purchases by boroughs

    Act ACT 337 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

86. Authorizing boroughs to appropriate moneys or to levy and collect a special tax for the purpose of building fire houses, lockups, and municipal buildings

    Act ACT 338 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

87. Act providing for the creation of a commission to study the subject of consolidation of the various municipalities, to wit: cities, boroughs, and townships in counties of the second class, into one municipality - amend - continuing the commission for a fu

    Act ACT 339 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

88. Validating the title to real estate, taken and held by corporations of other States, without first having established known places of business and designated authorized agents for the transaction of their business within this Commonwealth

    Act ACT 34 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

89. To provide that where the Department of Highways has acquired the abandoned right-of-way of a canal, railroad, or turnpike company to form a part of a State highway route, the part located within the borough shall be taken and deemed to be a borough

    Act ACT 340 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

90. Public School Code - amend - extending the permissive term of office of superintendents of schools in districts of the first class; regulating the retirement fund for such officials

    Act ACT 341 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

91. Public School Code - amend - court of common pleas to fix the compensation of auditors of school districts of the second class; assistants and other expenses

    Act ACT 342 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

92. Public School Code - amend - directors in annexed and union districts

    Act ACT 343 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

93. Public School Code - amend - temporary debt

    Act ACT 344 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

94. Public School Code - amend - appointment and the payment of the expenses of secretaries as delegates to State conventions of associations of school directors

    Act ACT 345 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

95. Public School Code - amend - proceedings in equity

    Act ACT 346 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

96. Public School Code - amend - pupils may attend high school in other districts under certain conditions

    Act ACT 347 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

97. Public School Code - amend - authorizing supplies to be purchased by certain officials

    Act ACT 348 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

98. Public School Code - amend - board of school directors, by agreement in writing, provide for attendance in other district without pupil taking county examination

    Act ACT 349 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

99. Providing for the holding over of officers of municipal corporations of this Commonwealth, hereafter or heretofore elected of appointed and having qualified, until their successors are elected or appointed and duly qualify

    Act ACT 35 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

100. Act conferring on the Department of Highways the right to change or protect existing stream channels on private lands adjacent to highways in order to protect the highways in a proper manner - amend - changing and protection of existing stream channels an

     Act ACT 350 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text