Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,402 laws of the 1920s

Constitution of 1874

1. State Highway Department Law - amend - removal by the county of certain structures located within the lines of a relocated State highway

   Act ACT 351 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

2. Act establishing certain public roads as State highways - amend - routes 332, 359, 365, 305, 322, and 330

   Act ACT 352 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

3. State Highway Department Law - amend - authorizing the construction of State-aid highways through and joining boroughs or incorporated towns

   Act ACT 353 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

4. Act establishing certain public roads as State highways - amend - routes therein established as State highways may be constructed and maintained under the provisions of present or future laws governing State highways

   Act ACT 354 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

5. Act establishing certain public roads as State highways - amend - routes 376, 377, 385, 386, 393, 394, 395, 397, 398, 402, 438, 440, 468, 493, 496, 511, 512, 515, 527, and 542

   Act ACT 355 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

6. Act providing for the original location, laying out and construction of public roads or highways in the counties of this Commonwealth, and for the permanent improvement of certain public roads or highways therein - amend - including building and improving

   Act ACT 356 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

7. Act to protect trees and woodlands - amend - exceptions for engineers and surveyors making surveys

   Act ACT 357 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

8. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - defining and limiting road taxes; payment of existing indebtedness incurred for road purposes

   Act ACT 358 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

9. Act to provide proper means of conveyance of persons injured in or about the mines to their homes - repeal

   Act ACT 359 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

10. 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 - relief and care of the blind

    Act ACT 36 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

11. Act to amend an act to provide the means for securing the health and safety of persons employed in the bituminous coal mines of Pennsylvania - repeal

    Act ACT 360 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

12. Requiring the assignment of mortgages, judgments, recognizances, and other securities, where the same are due, upon tender of the amount due together with all interest and other charges, by the owner of the encumbered property, his agent, attorney, or

    Act ACT 361 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

13. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - increasing the compensation of township supervisors

    Act ACT 362 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

14. Act to amend an act providing the means for securing the health and safety of persons employed in the bituminous coal mines of Pennsylvania - repeal

    Act ACT 363 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

15. Act relating to county rates and levies and townships rates and levies - amend - permitting the filing of tax liens and the return of property for the nonpayment of taxes without the necessity of levying on and selling personal goods and chattels

    Act ACT 364 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

16. Act relating to the collection of taxes in the county of Indiana - repeal

    Act ACT 365 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

17. Further supplement to Tax Act - amend - when report to Auditor General must be filed

    Act ACT 366 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

18. Providing for the return of taxes on seated lands in counties, poor districts, boroughs, incorporated towns, and townships for county, poor, boroughs, town, or township taxes, respectively

    Act ACT 367 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

19. Act relating to the organization and jurisdiction of orphans' courts - amend - salaries of clerks

    Act ACT 368 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

20. Directing the county commissioners in counties of the seventh class to fix the compensation of collectors of county taxes

    Act ACT 369 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

21. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - only roads and streets may be accepted by townships of the second class as part of the highway system thereof

    Act ACT 37 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

22. Act authorizing courts to provide by rule as to return of writs, and make all necessary rules for the transaction of any and all business brought before them - amend - when writs are returnable

    Act ACT 370 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

23. Prohibiting the shipping, transporting, or conveying, and the sale for shipment, transportation, or conveyance, of live pigeons for market less than six weeks of age

    Act ACT 371 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

24. Act prescribing the powers and duties of the Bureau of Markets in the Department of Agriculture - amend - marks upon receptacles; rules concerning products in storage

    Act ACT 372 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

25. Act relating to free, public, nonsectarian libraries and branch libraries within this Commonwealth - amend - extending the referendum process; validating elections had, and taxes heretofore levied; reports

    Act ACT 373 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

26. Act to regulate the deposits of State funds, to prescribe the method of selecting State depositories - amend - interest reports from State depositories

    Act ACT 374 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

27. Transfer Inheritance Tax Law - amend - authorizing the Auditor General to appoint investigators and appraisers

    Act ACT 375 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

28. Act relating to the commencement of actions - amend - relieving sheriffs from responsibility for bail on writs of capias ad respondendum when any surety taken is approved by the court issuing the writ

    Act ACT 376 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

29. Making the power of taxation of cities of this Commonwealth security for the taking, injury, or destruction of private property for public use, without the entry of a bond

    Act ACT 377 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

30. Municipal Claim and Tax Lien Law - amend - extending the filing and collection of municipal claims for power rates

    Act ACT 378 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

31. To enable city, county, poor, ward, school, borough, and township tax collectors to collect taxes, for the payment of which they have become personally liable, without having collected the same, by the expiration of the authority of their respective bonds

    Act ACT 379 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

32. Act empowering cities of the second and third classes, boroughs, and counties, to acquire, maintain, and operate playgrounds, playfields, gymnasiums, public baths, swimming pools, and indoor recreation centers - amend - extend to townships so as to includ

    Act ACT 38 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

33. Municipal Claim and Tax Lien Law - amend - interest; strip of land included in claims

    Act ACT 380 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

34. Forest Fire Protection Law - amend - penal provisions for setting fire to any woodlot, forest or wild land; defining the terms "person," woodlot," "forest," or "wild land," and "set'

    Act ACT 381 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

35. Requiring counties, cities, boroughs, towns, townships, school districts, and poor districts, when fixing rates of taxation in mills, to express such rates also in dollars and cents

    Act ACT 382 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

36. Act relating to the collection of city, school, and poor taxes in the several cities of the third class in this Commonwealth - amend - limiting the compensation of the collector for the collection of city and poor taxes; excluding compensation of the

    Act ACT 383 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

37. Act authorizing the appointment of clerks by the judges of the orphans' court of certain counties - amend - each of said judges may appoint a clerk

    Act ACT 384 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

38. Further supplement to Tax Act - amend - exempting corporations of the first class and cooperative agricultural associations not having capital stock and not conducted for profit

    Act ACT 385 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

39. Further supplement to Tax Act - amend - exempting corporations of the first class and cooperative agricultural associations not having capital stock and not conducted for profit

    Act ACT 386 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

40. Authorizing the Department of Property and Supplies to erect, construct and complete an office building in the Capital Park

    Act ACT 387 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

41. Reappropriating the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by a supplement to an act constituting a commission to make an investigation of the battlefields of France and Belgium, providing for the erection of certain memorials in France and

    Act ACT 388 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

42. Public School Code - amend - authorizing the State Council of Education to make advancements, out of the State School Fund, to school districts

    Act ACT 389 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

43. Act to prevent deception in the sale of butter and cheese - repeal

    Act ACT 39 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

44. To authorize the Secretary of War of the United States to return to the Governor of the Commonwealth certain funds remaining to the credit of such National Guard units thereof as have not been reconstituted

    Act ACT 390 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

45. Appropriating excess moneys in the general sinking fund for payment into the general fund of the State Treasury, and dedicating present revenues payable into the sinking fund, and accumulations on the moneys in the sinking fund, for payment into the State

    Act ACT 391 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

46. Providing for granting State aid to school districts of the third and fourth class, for the purpose of assisting in rebuilding destroyed school buildings; establishing the School Building Aid Fund

    Act ACT 392 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

47. Providing for the appointment of a commission by the Governor of this Commonwealth for the purpose of investigating and reporting upon both the geologic formation and strength of bituminous coal, for the purpose of recommending necessary legislation to

    Act ACT 393 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

48. Creating a Penal Law Commission to collate, revise, and digest the various penal laws and laws of criminal procedure of the Commonwealth - joint resolution

    Act ACT 394 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

49. Creating an Election Law Commission to codify, amend, and revise the election and primary election laws - joint resolution

    Act ACT 395 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

50. Creating a commission to study the laws relating to the healing art - joint resolution

    Act ACT 396 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

51. Creating a commission to study the distribution of State subsidies to school districts

    Act ACT 397 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

52. Providing for the acquisition and maintenance by the Department of Forests and Waters of the Bushy Run Battlefield and adjacent lands as a public historical park, and for the erection of a monument or memorial therein

    Act ACT 398 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

53. Providing for the preparation of plans and specifications and for the erection of the Eastern State Penitentiary on lands acquired therefore

    Act ACT 399 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

54. Authorizing the board of trustees of Allentown State Hospital to convey certain parts of a tract of land acquired in the name of the Commonwealth as a site for the Homeopathic State Hospital for the Insane

    Act ACT 4 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

55. Act to safeguard human life throughout the Commonwealth by providing for the reporting, quarantining, and control of diseases declared communicable by this act or by regulation of the Department of Health - amend - weekly reports by secretary of board of

    Act ACT 40 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

56. Act relating to the organization, maintenance, and operation of the Department of Banking - amend - defining "court"; admissibility of copies of documents; prima facie evidence; disclosure of information; power to take possession of private bank or estate

    Act ACT 400 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

57. Act authorizing and providing for the acquiring by agreement and operating by boroughs of water systems owned by corporations furnishing water within the acquiring borough and in adjacent townships or nearby boroughs - amend - authorizing the issuing lien

    Act ACT 401 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

58. The Fish Law of 1925 - amend - increasing the resident fishing license fee; making the county treasurer the agent of the Commonwealth in the collection of license fees

    Act ACT 402 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

59. Penal Code of 1860 - amend - any bailee should be guilty of larceny if he wilfully fails to return the bailed property to the owner in accordance with his agreement with the owner thereof

    Act ACT 403 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

60. Act to repeal an act for the destruction of wolves, wildcats, foxes, minks, hawks, weasels and owls, in this Commonwealth - repeal - as relates to foxes, minks, hawks, weasels and owls

    Act ACT 404 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

61. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - investment of trust funds by title insurance companies

    Act ACT 405 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

62. To provide for the registration and protection of the names, badges, mottoes, buttons, decorations, charms, emblems, rosettes, and other insignia of associations, lodges, orders, fraternal societies, beneficial societies, or fraternal societies, historica

    Act ACT 406 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

63. State Highway Department Law - amend - routes 76, 97, 161, 174, 188, 220, 227, 252, 274, 282, 290, 6, 69, 71, 75, 121, 153, 170, 181, 183, 186, 280, and 228

    Act ACT 407 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

64. Establishing certain public roads as State highways

    Act ACT 408 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

65. Act authorizing the several counties, incorporated towns, and boroughs to appropriate annually sums of money to the United Spanish War Veterans, the Army of the Philippines, and the American Veterans of Foreign Service to aid in defraying the expenses of

    Act ACT 409 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

66. Permitting cities, boroughs, and townships to cooperate with the counties in which they are situated, with other political subdivisions of such counties, and with the State Department of Health, in the administration and enforcement of the health laws and

    Act ACT 41 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

67. Act authorizing corporations incorporated under the laws of any other State of the United States to acquire, use, encumber, and dispose of such real estate, and rights, and interests in, in the nature of or in respect to real estate, in Pennsylvania - ame

    Act ACT 410 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

68. Act concerning game and other wild birds and wild animals - amend - increasing the resident hunters' license fee

    Act ACT 411 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

69. Authorizing and regulating the growth, sale, and distribution of forest tree seedlings and transplants by the Department of Forests and Waters

    Act ACT 412 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

70. Fixing the pay of election officers and clerks appointed by the inspectors, except in cities of the first class and counties of the second class

    Act ACT 413 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

71. Second Class City Law - amend - fixing the maximum compensation of councilmen

    Act ACT 414 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

72. Regulating the practice of the profession of engineering in all of its branches, including surveying

    Act ACT 415 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

73. Act authorizing an increase in number of clerks employed in the office of the State Treasurer - repeal

    Act ACT 416 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

74. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - quorum of board in first class corporations

    Act ACT 417 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

75. Act concerning game and other wild birds and wild animals - amend - revocation or suspension of licenses

    Act ACT 418 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

76. Act authorizing the appointment of interpreters in each county of this Commonwealth - amend - increasing said compensation

    Act ACT 42 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

77. 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 - exempting the counties of Fulton and Cameron

    Act ACT 43 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

78. Fixing the salaries of real estate assessors in counties of the first class

    Act ACT 433 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

79. Act to amend an act to provide for the immediate registration of all births and deaths throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, by means of certificates of births and deaths, and burial or removal permits - amend - fees for certificate and report

    Act ACT 434 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

80. Act relating to payment of taxes on seated lands by joint tenants, tenants in common or coparceners - repeal

    Act ACT 435 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

81. Transfer Inheritance Tax Law - amend - imposing additional taxes equal to Federal credits

    Act ACT 436 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

82. To provide for one additional law judge of the court of common pleas of the Thirty-second Judiciary District

    Act ACT 437 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

83. Authorizing the use of certain moneys in the Motor License Fund for township reward and State-aid construction, and for certain purposes in counties of the first class

    Act ACT 438 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

84. Act relating to the competency of witnesses and to the rules of evidence in civil and criminal cases - amend - making husband and wife competent witnesses in feme sole trader proceedings

    Act ACT 439 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

85. Establishing the minimum marriageable age at sixteen years and providing for certain exceptions thereto

    Act ACT 44 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

86. Act authorizing and empowering the Department of Welfare to sell surplus products of prison industries to the Government of the United States - amend - include the sale of surplus printing; authorizing the execution of contracts for sale of surplus, of

    Act ACT 440 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

87. 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 - extending the powers of the commission to provide for the construction and

    Act ACT 441 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

88. Magistrates' Courts Act 1927

    Act ACT 442 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

89. Act creating a Legislative Reference Bureau - amend - salaries of compilers, clerks, messenger, librarian, and stenographers; director to fix salaries

    Act ACT 443 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

90. Act providing for the appointment by the district attorney, in counties having a population of over 1,000,000 and less than 1,500,000 inhabitants, of a chief county detective, an assistant chief county detective, and special county detectives - amend -

    Act ACT 444 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

91. Regulating indictments and trials in the courts of oyer and terminer and quarter sessions of the peace

    Act ACT 445 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

92. Regulating the sale in bulk of fifty-one per centum or more of the stock of goods, wares or merchandise of any kind, fixtures, machinery, equipment or real estate, by every corporation, joint-stock associations, limited partnership or company

    Act ACT 446 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

93. Act to fix the salary and mileage of the members of the General Assembly - amend - increasing the compensation of members of the General Assembly

    Act ACT 447 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

94. Act to regulate the deposits of State funds, to prescribe the method of selecting State depositories, to limit the amount of state deposits - amend - publication of monthly statement of State Treasurer

    Act ACT 448 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

95. Creating a Commission on Penal Institutions

    Act ACT 449 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

96. Act relating to and regulating the use and operation of motor vehicles and vehicles propelled by, or trailing after, motor vehicles - amend - appropriating moneys in the motor license fund for the maintenance and repair of interstate bridges over the

    Act ACT 45 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

97. Authorizing the board of trustees of Harrisburg State Hospital to convey certain lands, or rights of way over lands, in or near the City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and to acquire other lands or rights of way in exchange therefor, in connection with the

    Act ACT 450 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

98. Modifying the common-law rule relating to property hereafter acquired by husband and wife as tenants by entireties, where such husband and wife have subsequently divorced

    Act ACT 451 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

99. The Vehicle Code

    Act ACT 452 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text

100. Act creating the office of fire marshal to be attached to the Department of Public Safety in cities of the first class - amend - requiring permits for the erection and installation of gasoline pumps and standpipes

     Act ACT 453 OF 1927 of 1927 · 1927 · Original text