Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,402 laws of the 1920s

Constitution of 1874

1. Act authorizing a written demand for a jury trial in actions at law in the several courts of common pleas of this Commonwealth, by either party thereto - repeal

   Act ACT 19 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

2. Regulating and defining the powers and duties of the Dental Council and the State Board of Dental Examiners

   Act ACT 190 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

3. Act to regulate the commission of license fee to be paid by auctioneers - amend - exempting auctioneers selling only live stock and farm implements

   Act ACT 191 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

4. Act to restrain and regulate the sale of vinous and spirituous, malt or brewed liquors - amend - prohibiting the manufacture, sale, offering for sale, transportation, importation, exportation, furnishing, or possession, for beverage purposes, of anything

   Act ACT 192 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

5. Authorizing the county commissioners of counties of the second class within this Commonwealth to appropriate and pay out of the treasury a sum not exceeding the sum of 2,500 dollars for a national conference on city planning that may be held in such count

   Act ACT 193 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

6. Authorizing the State Forest Commission to exchange or sell certain portions of the State forest land

   Act ACT 194 OF 1920 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

7. Act authorizing the erection and construction by counties of memorial halls in memory of the soldiers, sailors, and marines of such counties - amend - planting of memorial trees

   Act ACT 195 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

8. To provide for a second additional law judge of the court of common pleas of the Tenth Judicial District

   Act ACT 196 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

9. To provide for an additional law judge, of the court of common pleas of the Thirty-sixth Judicial District

   Act ACT 197 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

10. Providing for the nomination and election of judges of courts of record

    Act ACT 198 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

11. Regulating nominations and elections for all elective offices of cities of the second class

    Act ACT 199 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

12. Act to create the Department of Public Printing and Binding - amend - proposals; delivery of supplies; allowances for spoilage

    Act ACT 2 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

13. Act regulating and defining the powers and duties of the Dental Council and the State Board of Dental Examiners - amend - licensing of assistants to dentists

    Act ACT 20 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

14. Act to provide for the protection and preservation of game, game-quadrupeds, and game-birds, and song and insectivorous and other wild birds - amend - bears

    Act ACT 200 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

15. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - section six hundred and ninety-nine

    Act ACT 201 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

16. Fixing the time for the confirmation of the reports of viewers in proceedings to assess damages or benefits incident to public improvements, where no exceptions are filed or appeals taken

    Act ACT 202 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

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

    Act ACT 203 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

18. Authorizing the cities of this Commonwealth to regulate or prohibit and prevent the use and sale of fireworks, firecrackers, sparklers, and other pyrotechnics, and the unnecessary firing and discharge of firearms in or into the highways or other public pl

    Act ACT 204 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

19. Defining a private game preserve, and making it a misdemeanor to enter such preserve for certain purposes or to break, injure, or destroy the enclosure of the same

    Act ACT 205 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

20. Act relating to the collection of State and county taxes in the county of Montgomery - repeal

    Act ACT 206 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

21. Act for the better protection of wild birds and game within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - amend - collection of fees

    Act ACT 207 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

22. For the segregation of certain classes of prisoners

    Act ACT 208 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

23. Providing for the sentencing of certain criminals to reformatories or houses of correction in counties of the first class

    Act ACT 209 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

24. Appropriating to the State Highway Department, for assisting in the construction, maintenance, improvement, and repair of State highways, all moneys derived from registrations and form license fees, for the year 1921 and subsequent years

    Act ACT 21 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

25. To empower courts of competent jurisdiction to issue writs of execution against property of defendant, and attachment execution or in the nature of attachment execution against trusts, including those commonly known as spendthrift trusts, no matter when

    Act ACT 210 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

26. Act defining sedition - amend

    Act ACT 211 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

27. Act to provide for appeals in cases where the county commissioners and auditors have failed or shall fail to fix the compensation of county treasurers - amend - appeals by the county treasurer in cases where the county commissioners and auditors have fixe

    Act ACT 212 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

28. Act relating to the maintenance of insane, feeble-minded, and other persons confined in the various institutions of the Commonwealth - amend - liabilities of estates by entireties

    Act ACT 213 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

29. Authorizing boroughs, townships, school districts, and poor districts to appeal from assessments of property or other subjects of taxation for their corporate purposes

    Act ACT 214 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

30. Giving the Insurance Commissioner supervision and control and authority to examine automobile protective or cooperative companies or associations, issuing for money consideration, policies or contracts guaranteeing attorneys' services to owners of motor

    Act ACT 215 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

31. To apportion the State into congressional districts

    Act ACT 216 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

32. Senatorial District Apportionment Law

    Act ACT 217 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

33. To fix the number of Representatives in the General Assembly of the State, and to apportion the State into representative districts as provided by the Constitution

    Act ACT 218 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

34. Act making it unlawful for any individual to carry on or conduct any business under an assumed or fictitious name, style, or designation, unless upon the filing of a certificate to that effect in the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth and of the

    Act ACT 219 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

35. The Public Service Company Law - amend - extend to street railway corporations

    Act ACT 22 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

36. Act to prohibit the manufacture and sale of oleomargarine, butterine, and other similar products, when colored in imitation of yellow butter - amend - advertisements and designations relating to oleomargarine or butterine

    Act ACT 220 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

37. For the protection of the public health by providing clean, sanitary establishments for bottling nonalcoholic drinks, including clean, sanitary ingredients, bottles, receptacles and utensils

    Act ACT 221 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

38. Providing a system of management and control of the jail or county prison in each county of the fifth class

    Act ACT 222 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

39. Providing for the burial of soldiers, sailors, or marines, designated as "deceased service men"

    Act ACT 223 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

40. Act providing for the original location, laying out and construction of public roads or highways in the several counties of this Commonwealth - amend - vacation of abandoned or condemned turnpikes

    Act ACT 224 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

41. Imposing a State tax on anthracite coal

    Act ACT 225 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

42. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - notice of receipt of duplicate; penalties

    Act ACT 226 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

43. 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 - extending to include townships

    Act ACT 227 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

44. Authorizing county commissioners to receive donations, gifts, legacies endowments, devises, and conveyances of real or personal property for the establishing of orphans' homes

    Act ACT 228 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

45. Act regulating the sale of concentrated commercial feeding-stuffs - amend - enlarging the scope of the term "concentrated commercial feeding-stuffs;" collection of license fees for the sale thereof; including other substances as adulterants

    Act ACT 229 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

46. Providing for the transfer of convicts from the Eastern Penitentiary to the Western Penitentiary, and from the Western Penitentiary to the Eastern Penitentiary, and their imprisonment in the penitentiary to which transferred

    Act ACT 23 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

47. Act relating to marriage licenses - amend - imposing an additional license fee for the use of the Commonwealth

    Act ACT 230 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

48. Act authorizing the formation of partnership associations in which the capital subscribed shall alone be responsible for the debts of the association - amend - granting to partnership associations, for the purpose of transportation and storage of oil by

    Act ACT 231 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

49. Validating all divorces granted since the first day of June 1915, where the subpoena was signed by the prothonotary

    Act ACT 232 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

50. Authorizing the prothonotaries to sign subpoenas in divorce causes

    Act ACT 233 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

51. Act relating to fires and fire prevention; imposing duties, and conferring powers heretofore exercised by the State Fire Marshal, upon the Department of State Police - amend - appeals

    Act ACT 234 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

52. Act to establish an asylum for the insane poor of this Commonwealth to be called " The Pennsylvania State Lunatic Hospital and Union Asylum for the Insane - amend - name changed to "Harrisburg State Hospital"

    Act ACT 235 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

53. Supplement to an act, entitled Second Class City Law - amend - twenty days notice to the city planning commission of any proposed amendment or change; enforcing officer; board of appeal

    Act ACT 236 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

54. 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 - emergency electric lighting circuit

    Act ACT 237 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

55. Public School Code - amend - per capita tax

    Act ACT 238 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

56. 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 - location of auditorium in schools an

    Act ACT 239 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

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

    Act ACT 24 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

58. Providing for the reimbursement of counties by boroughs and townships, when the county has contracted with the State Highway Department for the payment of both the county's and the borough or township's share of the cost of constructing or improving a

    Act ACT 240 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

59. Providing for the taking over of the Wyoming Valley Memorial Park as a State Park

    Act ACT 241 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

60. Dog Law of 1921

    Act ACT 242 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

61. Act fixing the per diem compensation of borough and township assessors and assistant assessors - amend - fixing the per diem compensation of assessors and assistant assessors in boroughs, wards, and townships of the second class, ascertaining the number

    Act ACT 243 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

62. Authorizing district attorneys, in counties of the third class, to appoint county detectives

    Act ACT 244 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

63. 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 245 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

64. Providing for county poor districts in counties of the sixth class

    Act ACT 246 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

65. Authorizing counties, cities, boroughs, towns, and townships to acquire lands by purchase, gift, or condemnation, and to convey such lands to the Commonwealth for use of the National Guard

    Act ACT 247 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

66. Validating proceedings by councils in boroughs for the paving and curbing of public highways, and validating municipal liens therefor

    Act ACT 248 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

67. Act to amend an act to prohibit the killing of foxes by certain methods in Delaware County - repeal - as it relates to Montgomery County

    Act ACT 249 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

68. Fiduciaries Act of 1917 - amend - letters testamentary

    Act ACT 25 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

69. Public School Code - amend - annexation of districts to first class districts; powers of directors thereof

    Act ACT 250 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

70. Providing for the depositing of money with the clerk of the several courts of quarter sessions and oyer and terminer or other courts of record having jurisdiction in this Commonwealth, in lieu of bail and recognizances with surety, in criminal or quasi cr

    Act ACT 251 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

71. Act creating a fund for the purpose of rebuilding, restoring, and replacing buildings, structures, equipment, or other property of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, damaged or destroyed by fire or other casualty - amend - permitting the purchase of polici

    Act ACT 252 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

72. Act authorizing the Board of Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings to erect a Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Bridge in the city of Harrisburg - amend

    Act ACT 253 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

73. Providing for the election of one person as prothonotary, and one person as clerk of the courts of quarter sessions and oyer and terminer, in counties of the fourth class

    Act ACT 254 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

74. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - signs at road intersections; penalty for failure to erect signs

    Act ACT 255 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

75. Public School Code - amend - appointment or election of school directors when district changes classification

    Act ACT 256 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

76. For the better protection of fish; requiring citizens of the United States residing within this Commonwealth to procure a license from the county treasurer to fish or angle in the waters of this Commonwealth

    Act ACT 257 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

77. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - compensation of treasurer

    Act ACT 258 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

78. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - conventions; officers of county associations; railroad or street railway restrictions

    Act ACT 259 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

79. Directing the publication of the pamphlet containing the game, fish, and forestry laws - joint resolution

    Act ACT 26 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

80. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - consolidation of townships

    Act ACT 260 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

81. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - taxes which may be levied

    Act ACT 261 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

82. County Prison Board Law

    Act ACT 262 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

83. Act regulating boroughs - amend - authorizing the boroughs to increase the rate of taxation for general borough purposes

    Act ACT 263 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

84. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - authorizing boroughs to define and punish disorderly conduct

    Act ACT 264 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

85. Act relating to and regulating the use and operation of motor vehicles and vehicles propelled by, or trailing after, motor vehicles - amend - additional requirements with regard to applications for registrations; standard tests to ascertain the vision and

    Act ACT 265 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

86. Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons and drugs - amend - suspension of registrations

    Act ACT 266 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

87. Act to protect the public health and safety; by regulating the erection, alteration, repair, use, occupancy, maintenance, sanitation, and condemnation of dwellings, two-family dwellings, rooming-houses, and tenements - amend - floor area for kitchens and

    Act ACT 267 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

88. A further supplement to the act regulating elections in this Commonwealth - amend - authorizing the court of quarter sessions to appoint election officers in cases of vacancy

    Act ACT 268 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

89. State Highway Department Law - amend - routes 7, 9, 13, 20, 21, 49, 63, 80, 88, 89, 91, 92, 95, 97, 108, 111, 122, 128, 131, 140, 158, 169, 172, 189, 208, 246, 252, 258, 281, 336, 342, 360, 365, 372

    Act ACT 269 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

90. Act to provide for the enrollment, organization, discipline and regulation of the militia of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - repeal - sections three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, and twelve

    Act ACT 27 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

91. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - requiring the approval of the commissioners of townships of the first class before recording certain plans, plots, and replots

    Act ACT 270 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

92. To prevent the laying out, opening, changing, vacating, widening, or altering, by a court of quarter sessions, of a road any part of which lies within a township of the first class, without the consent and approval of the board of township commissioners -

    Act ACT 271 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

93. Act to provide for the selection of a site and the erection of a State asylum for the chronic insane, to be called the State Asylum for the Chronic Insane of Pennsylvania - amend - quarantine, reception, detention, care, and treatment of persons suffering

    Act ACT 272 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

94. Act providing for the original location, laying out, and construction of public roads or highways in the several counties of this Commonwealth, and for the permanent improvement of certain public roads or highways therein - amend - repair of such roads

    Act ACT 273 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

95. Act relating to fires and fire prevention; imposing duties, and conferring powers heretofore exercised by the State Fire Marshal, upon the Department of State Police - amend - fire marshals

    Act ACT 274 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

96. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - sewer systems; sewer districts; assessments

    Act ACT 275 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

97. Providing for the recording of deeds and registration of same

    Act ACT 276 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

98. State Highway Department Law - amend - liability on bond to those who furnish labor or materials

    Act ACT 277 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

99. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - salaries of controllers

    Act ACT 278 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

100. Act regulating the sale, conveyance, transfer, or disposition of second-hand motor vehicles - amend - definition of "motor vehicles", "public garage", "dealer in used motor vehicles"; State Highway Commission; records

     Act ACT 279 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text