Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,402 laws of the 1920s

Constitution of 1874

1. To provide for the care, training and maintenance of certain children by the several counties; establish industrial homes

   Act ACT 370 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

2. Public School Code - amend - insure school privileges to certain dependent children of the Commonwealth

   Act ACT 371 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

3. To provide for the payment of moneys to school districts the taxes of which are reduced by the acquisition of lands and property by the Commonwealth for the conservation of water and to prevent flood conditions

   Act ACT 372 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

4. Public School Code - amend - exemptions to compulsory attendance

   Act ACT 373 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

5. Public School Code - amend - elementary school or course defined; high school defined; courses of study; statements to be furnished to the Superintendent of Public Instruction

   Act ACT 374 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

6. Public School Code - amend - vacancy of entire membership; superintendent or principal acting as secretary; superintendent teaching in summer school; computation of distances

   Act ACT 375 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

7. Public School Code - amend - provisional and permanent college certificate for work in education

   Act ACT 376 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

8. Public School Code - amend - eligibility for school director

   Act ACT 377 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

9. Authorizing a city of the third class to provide by ordinance for the payment for public work or improvements where no legal or valid contract was entered into as required by law

   Act ACT 378 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

10. Uniform Fraudulent Conveyance Act

    Act ACT 379 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

11. Act to amend an act regulating State tax on certain county offices - amend - payment to county treasurer

    Act ACT 38 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

12. Act to revise, amend, and consolidate the law relating to fish - amend - charr

    Act ACT 380 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

13. Act to amend an act regulating lateral railroads - amend - increasing the length of lateral railroads

    Act ACT 381 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

14. Providing for licensing drivers of taxicabs and passenger motor vehicles for hire by cities of the second class

    Act ACT 382 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

15. To carry out the provisions of section eight, article nine of the Constitution of the State of Pennsylvania, as amended, and prescribing the method of determining the amount which may be deducted in ascertaining the borrowing capacity of the city of

    Act ACT 383 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

16. Act to amend the Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - extending the powers of every corporation incorporated for the supply of light, heat, and power to the public by electricity; granting to every such corporation the power to appropriate property that is n

    Act ACT 384 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

17. Act granting to water power companies authority to develop and distribute electric power by means of their water power - amend - extending the power of every corporation for the purpose of supplying water power to the public; power to appropriate property

    Act ACT 385 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

18. Act reorganizing the Department of State Police; creating therein a Bureau of Fire Protection - amend - school troop; service pay

    Act ACT 386 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

19. Act creating a Department of Health - amend - orders and regulations; promulgation

    Act ACT 387 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

20. City Classification Law - amend - population size of the second and third class cities

    Act ACT 388 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

21. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - appropriation for municipal music

    Act ACT 389 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

22. Providing for the salaries of court criers and tipstaves of the several courts in counties of the fourth class

    Act ACT 39 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

23. Act relating to the compensation of the county treasurers of Montgomery and Berks Counties - repeal

    Act ACT 390 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

24. Public School Code - amend - kindergartens

    Act ACT 391 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

25. Act relating to the appointment of persons to the police department in cities of the third class - amend - eligibility list

    Act ACT 392 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

26. Authorizing the directors of the poor of Jenkins Township, Pittston City, and Pittston Township, in Luzerne County, to acquire property, and to erect and equip an asylum for the insane, and to levy taxes and borrow money therefor

    Act ACT 393 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

27. Requiring banks, banking corporations, building and loan associations, etc. to file of record names of persons authorized to make entries on records of mortgages

    Act ACT 394 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

28. Act for the protections of 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 cooks, waiters, kitchen-help

    Act ACT 395 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

29. Act to establish a board for the examination of accountants - amend - examination of accountants from other states

    Act ACT 396 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

30. To establish a separate orphans' court in and for the county of Erie

    Act ACT 397 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

31. Act authorizing the appointment of a commission to supervise the revising, amending, consolidating, and simplifying of the laws relating to the assessment, levy, and collection of taxes for local purposes - amend - continuing the commission appointed for

    Act ACT 398 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

32. Public School Code - amend - assistant county superintendents

    Act ACT 399 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

33. Relating to vocational rehabilitation; providing for the rehabilitation of disabled persons and their return to civil employment

    Act ACT 4 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

34. Public School Code - amend - compensation for attending convention

    Act ACT 40 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

35. Act to regulate the nomination and election of public officers - amend - number of ballots; registers of voters

    Act ACT 400 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

36. Providing for county poor districts in counties of the seventh class

    Act ACT 401 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

37. Public School Code - amend - terms of service and compensation

    Act ACT 402 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

38. Municipal Tax Lien Act

    Act ACT 403 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

39. Authorizing and empowering the several counties of this Commonwealth to reimburse and pay highway contractors under road construction contracts entered into between said counties and such contractors, increasing railroad freight rates

    Act ACT 404 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

40. Act to authorize the acquisition of lands for a park, and the erection of a monument commemorative of Washington crossing the River Delaware - amend - authorized acreage increased

    Act ACT 405 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

41. To ascertain and appoint the fees to be received by the recorder of deeds, in and for the counties in this Commonwealth containing more than 1,500,000 inhabitants

    Act ACT 406 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

42. Act to provide for the administration of the Workmen's Compensation Act of 1915 by creating the Bureau of Workmen's Compensation of the Department of Labor and Industry - amend - salaries

    Act ACT 407 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

43. Act relating to the organization and jurisdiction of orphans' courts - amend - salaries of the assistant clerks of said court in counties of the first, second, third, and fourth classes

    Act ACT 408 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

44. Act imposing certain liabilities on persons, firms, and corporations, in cities of the second class, for the cost of extinguishing fires which occur through their criminal intent or willful negligence - amend - extend to persons, firms, and corporations,

    Act ACT 409 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

45. Act to increase the powers of building and loan associations incorporated under the laws of this Commonwealth - repeal

    Act ACT 41 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

46. Act declaring buildings and parts of buildings used for purposes of fornication, lewdness, assignation, and prostitution to be nuisances -a mend - permanent injunction; contempt of court

    Act ACT 410 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

47. Appropriating to the Department of Health any moneys to be received from the United States Government in the promotion of sanitation, public health, and health education, the protection and care of maternity, infancy, and old age, and the prevention,

    Act ACT 411 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

48. Act relating to nonalcoholic drinks - amend - subsequent convictions; penalty; allegation and proof

    Act ACT 412 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

49. Supplement to an act to provide for the publication of the decisions of the Supreme Court and the appointment of a State Reporter - amend - allowance for supplies and assistance

    Act ACT 413 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

50. Act to amend an act to provide for the establishment of a Bureau of Standards in the Department of Internal Affairs of Pennsylvania - amend - appointment of additional deputies; fixing the salary of the chief of said bureau

    Act ACT 414 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

51. Act relating to motion picture films, reels, or stereopticon views or slides; creating the Board of Censors - amend - salaries

    Act ACT 415 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

52. Act providing that the offices of justice of the peace and notary public shall not be incompatible - amend - offices of magistrate and alderman shall not be incompatible with the office of notary public

    Act ACT 416 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

53. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - paving without petition of property owners; collection of cost from abutting owners

    Act ACT 417 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

54. 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 418 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

55. Permitting certain domestic mutual fire insurance companies to issue cash premium policies without assessment liability

    Act ACT 419 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

56. Legal holiday Law - amend - Armistice Day

    Act ACT 42 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

57. Act regulating certain political parties - amend - empowering the court of common pleas, instead of the return board, to open ballot-boxes when fraud or error not manifest on the general return is alleged

    Act ACT 420 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

58. Act provided for the surrender of franchises of meadow companies - repeal

    Act ACT 421 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

59. To regulate the practice of the profession of engineering and of land surveying; creating a State Board for the Registration of Professional Engineers and Land Surveyors

    Act ACT 422 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

60. Act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of companies, not for profit, organized for the encouragement of the arts and sciences and of agriculture and horticulture - amend - enabling said corporations to increase their bonded indebtedness

    Act ACT 423 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

61. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - annexation of territory of an adjoining county

    Act ACT 424 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

62. Creating a Department of Public Welfare

    Act ACT 425 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

63. Authorizing certain corporations to issue preferred or common stock of one or more classes

    Act ACT 426 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

64. Act establishing a court for the county of Philadelphia - amend - judges salaries; vacancies

    Act ACT 427 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

65. To designate the several judicial districts of the Commonwealth as required by the Constitution, and to provide for the election and commissioning of judges

    Act ACT 428 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

66. Act granting an annuity to William W. Snowden, of Elizabeth, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, late a private in the National Guard of Pennsylvania - amend - annuity amount

    Act ACT 429 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

67. Act authorizing and empowering the county commissioners and the county solicitor, and the chief clerk of the said commissioners, of each county, to organize themselves into a State Association - amend - the necessary expenses of the convention shall not b

    Act ACT 43 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

68. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - appointed officers' salaries

    Act ACT 430 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

69. Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons and drugs - amend - requiring permits to conduct pharmacies

    Act ACT 431 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

70. Constituting a commission to make an investigation of the battlefields of France and Belgium, and to select points for the erection of monuments to commemorate the achievements of Pennsylvania soldiers during the World War

    Act ACT 432 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

71. Act providing for assistance to certain mothers - amend - eliminating the provisions which fixes the salaries of the State Supervisor, Assistant State Supervisor, and clerk, and the method of the distribution of the moneys appropriated

    Act ACT 433 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

72. Authorizing the Adjutant General to erect, construct, complete, and equip a building on the arsenal grounds, at Harrisburg, for use as a garage and machine shop

    Act ACT 434 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

73. Providing a bonus for the residents of this Commonwealth who served in the military or naval forces of the United States during the World War; creating a Soldiers' Bonus Commission

    Act ACT 435 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

74. Creating the Pennsylvania State Park and Harbor Commission of Erie

    Act ACT 436 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

75. Authorizing the appointment of a commission to arrange for an international exhibition to be held in Philadelphia, in the year 1926, in celebration of the 150th anniversary of American independence - joint resolution

    Act ACT 437 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

76. Making an appropriation to carry into effect the provisions of an act providing for assistance to certain mothers

    Act ACT 438 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

77. Providing for the continuation of the commission appointed in accordance with the joint resolution providing for a commission to submit a revised penal code of Pennsylvania to revise, collate, and digest all the acts and parts of acts relating to criminal

    Act ACT 439 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

78. To prohibit the speeding and racing of certain motor vehicles to fires, the parking of motor vehicles in the vicinity of fires, and the driving of motor vehicles over lines of hose

    Act ACT 44 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

79. Authorizing the Governor to appoint a commission to inquire into a plan for the reorganization of the State Government - joint resolution

    Act ACT 440 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

80. Continuing the commission for investigation and examination of the various laws now in effect in the several States relating to the recording of deeds, mortgages, the transfer of land, the insurance of titles, and the practical operation of such laws, and

    Act ACT 441 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

81. Providing for the refunding of moneys paid to the State Highway Department for registration of motor vehicles and drivers licenses, which motor vehicles and licenses have not been used

    Act ACT 442 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

82. State Fair Commission Law

    Act ACT 443 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

83. Affecting anthracite coal mines and the operations; establishing the Pennsylvania State Anthracite Mine Cave Commission;

    Act ACT 444 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

84. Regulating the mining of anthracite coal

    Act ACT 445 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

85. To authorize the acquisition of lands and the erection of buildings for a State Truancy School

    Act ACT 446 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

86. Act to amend an act providing for the appointment and expenses of a commission of five persons to codify and revise the law relating to banks, private bankers, and trust companies doing business within this Commonwealth - amend - extending commission for

    Act ACT 447 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

87. Act in relation to the public safety, defense, and welfare of the Commonwealth and of the United States; continuing the Commission of Public Safety and Defense as a Commission of Public Welfare - repeal

    Act ACT 448 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

88. Requiring county commissioners of the counties of the sixth class to furnish the county officers with certain services, equipment, and supplies, at the expense of the county

    Act ACT 45 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

89. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - surcharges against officers

    Act ACT 46 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

90. Creating a Legislative Reference Bureau

    Act ACT 47 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

91. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - compensation for attendance of conventions

    Act ACT 48 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

92. Act to establish a Department of Fisheries - amend - appointment and terms of office

    Act ACT 49 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

93. Act amending the act relating to practice in the courts of common pleas in actions of assumpsit and trespass, except actions for libel and slander- amend - time of filing affidavit

    Act ACT 5 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

94. Appropriating to the Department of Health certain moneys received and to be received from the United States Government in the prevention, control, and treatment of venereal diseases

    Act ACT 50 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

95. Making it a misdemeanor for persons to unlawfully use or wear the insignia or button of the American Legion of the official decorations of said organization

    Act ACT 51 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

96. Fixing the salaries of mine inspectors in this Commonwealth and the expenses incident to the office

    Act ACT 52 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

97. Act creating a reward or bounty for the destruction of certain noxious animals killed within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - amend - bounties for killing

    Act ACT 53 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

98. Public School Code - amend - budget

    Act ACT 54 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

99. Public School Code - amend - salaries of principal, supervisor, district superintendent, and assistant district superintendent

    Act ACT 55 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text

100. Requiring the county commissioners, in all counties of the fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth class of this Commonwealth, to provide an office at the county-seat for the district attorney and his assistants, and to furnish supplies, postage, telephone, fue

     Act ACT 56 OF 1921 of 1921 · 1921 · Original text