Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,402 laws of the 1920s

Constitution of 1874

1. Fruit Syrup Law

   Act 8 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

2. Authorizing counties of the fourth class, and cities of the third class, to appropriate moneys to State park and harbor commissions

   Act 9 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

3. Validating certain proceedings of counties, cities, boroughs, townships, school districts, and other incorporated districts had and held, pursuant to an act to regulate the manner of increasing the indebtedness of municipalities

   Act 10 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

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

   Act 11 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

5. Act providing for the organization, government, discipline, maintenance, and regulation of the armed land forces of this Commonwealth - amend - defining "company"; repeal section 10; adjutants, summary courts, and judge advocates to administer oaths;

   Act 12 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

6. To validate acts done, and contracts, conveyances, transfers, and mortgages of property, made to, or by any corporation of the first class, created, or intended to be created, by degree of the courts of common pleas

   Act 13 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

7. Ratifying and confirming the action of the Department of Welfare in classifying the Wernersville State Hospital as a hospital for the care and treatment of the indigent insane

   Act 14 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

8. In relation to the procedure in certain classes of cases in which there is raised a question as to the jurisdiction of a court of first instance over the defendant or the cause of action for which suit is brought

   Act 15 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

9. Authorizing the issue and sale of bonds to the amount of fifty millions of dollars by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

   Act 16 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

10. The Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - investment of the surplus of domestic stock casualty insurance companies

    Act 17 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

11. Act regulating the practice, bail, costs, and fees on appeals to the Supreme Court and Superior Court - amend - Fixing the time within which appeals may be allowed

    Act 18 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

12. Act to establish an intermediate court of appeal - amend - eliminating the exception prohibiting said court from enforcing any short or hour list

    Act 19 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

13. Regulating the sale of oysters at retail

    Act 20 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

14. Authorizing counties to engage in health work

    Act 21 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

15. Relating to the allocation of moneys to the different counties by the Department of Highways for the construction of highways

    Act 22 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

16. Sate Highway Department Law - amend - route 102

    Act 23 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

17. For the promotion of the safety of the traveling public by authorizing counties and townships to purchase or condemn property and lands along highways, so as to eliminate dangerous curves and widen narrow highways

    Act 24 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

18. Act to exempt from taxation public property used for public purposes, actual places of religious worship, places of burial not used or held for private or corporate profit, and institutions of purely public charity - amend - extending to property owned,

    Act 25 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

19. Supplement to an act constituting a commission to make an investigation of the battlefields of France and Belgium, and to select points for the erection of monuments and markers of appropriate design to commemorate the achievements of Pennsylvania soldier

    Act 26 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

20. Act to regulate and establish the fees to be charged and collected by the several clerks of the courts of oyer and terminer, general jail delivery, and quarter sessions of the peace, in counties of this Commonwealth having a population of over 800,000 and

    Act 27 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

21. To validate the obligations of school districts issued prior to January 1, 1924, pursuant to the Public School Code

    Act 28 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

22. Act to fix salaries of the deputies in the offices of the clerk of the courts, county controller, recorder of deeds, county treasurer, chief deputy sheriff, and chief clerk to the county commissioners, in counties of this Commonwealth having over 250,000

    Act 29 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

23. Act providing for the depositing of money with the clerk of the several courts of quarter sessions and oyer and terminer or other courts having jurisdiction in this Commonwealth, in lieu of bail and recognizances with surety or sureties - amend - depositi

    Act 30 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

24. Authorizing cities of the second class to regulate, by ordinance, sales of merchandise at public auction

    Act 31 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

25. Repealing all acts and parts of acts, general, local, and special, which impose a State tax on the fees of notaries public

    Act 32 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

26. Making an appropriation to the Board of Finance and Revenue, out of the Motor License Fund, for paying interest on the bonds of this Commonwealth issued for the purpose of improving and rebuilding highways

    Act 33 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

27. Fiduciaries Act of 1917 - amend - payments of property belonging to minors without appointment of guardian in estates of two hundred dollars or less

    Act 34 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

28. Act to discontinue the State quarantine - amend - under authority of Department of Property and Supplies instead of Board of Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings

    Act 35 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

29. First Class City Government Law - amend - abolishing the office of Purchasing Agent and substituting therefor a new department to be known as the Department of Supplies

    Act 36 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

30. Act to provide for safety guards upon passenger elevators - amend - locking device approved by the Department of Labor and Industry

    Act 37 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

31. Authorizing the mayors of all cities to appoint a committee to investigate certain applications for license to peddle in such cities

    Act 38 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

32. To provide for the positions of principal deputy prothonotary and second deputy prothonotary in counties of the first class

    Act 39 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

33. Validating proceedings and ordinances of borough councils; providing for joint grading, paving, curbing, and draining of public highways by the borough and county, borough and State, or the borough, county and State

    Act 40 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

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

    Act 41 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

35. Act relating to poorhouses and lands - amend - county commissioners to purchase additional land

    Act 42 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

36. Authorizing any city of the third class to acquire by purchase all the facilities, improvements, and franchises of any water corporation operating partly within the city to supply water to persons, corporations, and municipalities both within the limits o

    Act 43 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

37. Authorizing and regulating the establishment and operation by counties of hospitals for the treatment of persons afflicted with tuberculosis

    Act 44 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

38. To provide for an additional system for the collection of State and county taxes in cities of the third class

    Act 45 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

39. Public School Code - amend - special education of children incapable of receiving proper education in the regular classes of the public schools

    Act 46 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

40. Public School Code - amend - assistance to blind and to deaf students in schools and institutions

    Act 47 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

41. Act providing for the time during which pupils may be taught in institutions for the instruction of the blind in this Commonwealth - amend - extending to pupils in institutions or schools for the deaf; Department of Public Instruction to determine the num

    Act 48 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

42. Public School Code - amend - education of deaf, blind, or crippled children

    Act 49 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

43. Public School Code - amend - payments on account of special classes

    Act 50 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

44. Act in relation to the sales of unseated lands in the several counties of this Commonwealth - amend - publish notice once a week for three consecutive weeks

    Act 51 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

45. For the protection of public health by regulation the serving of milk for drinking purposes to patrons of hotels, restaurants, lunch rooms, fountains, and dining cars

    Act 52 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

46. Authorizing the Department of Forests and Waters to accept gifts, donations, or contributions under certain circumstances

    Act 53 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

47. Act relating to practice in the courts of common pleas in actions of assumpsit and trespass, except actions for libel and slander - amend - adding new matter to pleadings

    Act 54 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

48. Public School Employes' Retirement Law - amend - payment of a state annuity to employes who separated from school service prior to the establishment of the Retirement System

    Act 55 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

49. Act to prevent the firing of mountain and other wild lands in the county of Union - repeal

    Act 56 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

50. Act to protect timber lands from fire - repeal

    Act 57 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

51. Act to amend an act to protect timber lands from fire; providing for a penalty in case of the failure of county commissioners to comply with the terms of said act - repeal

    Act 58 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

52. Act making constables of townships and boroughs ex-officio fire, game and fish wardens - repeal

    Act 59 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

53. Act for the better protection of timber lands against fire - repeal

    Act 60 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

54. Act to protect the State Forest Reserves - repeal - section one

    Act 61 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

55. Act to protect trees and woodlands - repeal - section one

    Act 62 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

56. Act to permit the Department of Forestry to enter into co-operative agreements with county, township, municipal and private agencies for the prevention and suppression of forest fires - repeal

    Act 63 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

57. Providing for the quarantine and control of the European cornborer

    Act 64 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

58. State Board of Undertakers Law - amend - requiring undertakers' assistants to register and licensed undertakers to register annually with the State Board of Undertakers

    Act 65 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

59. Authorizing the Valley Forge Park Commission to make use of the moneys now in its possession known as the "Wood Fund"

    Act 66 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

60. Act providing a method through which the Commonwealth may co-operate with individuals in building fences to protect farm crops and fruit orchards against damage from wild deer - amend - owners may petition board for assistance in building fence; 50 per

    Act 67 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

61. Act relating to appeals in cases of summary convictions - amend - bail for costs

    Act 68 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

62. Authorizing the entry of sheriffs, constables, and others into places or buildings where goods and chattels formerly levied upon are contained, for the purpose of sale

    Act 69 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

63. Relating to township roads; prescribing the time within which approved township roads must be physically opened

    Act 70 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

64. Making it unlawful to drive over certain inter-state bridges with loads of excessive weight

    Act 71 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

65. Act to provide for the protection of insane persons, feeble-minded persons, and epileptics, and the appointment of a guardian for those unable to care for their own property - amend - petition for guardian for estate

    Act 72 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

66. Act requiring banks, copartnerships, or associations, etc. to file of record names of persons authorized to make entries on records of mortgages - amend - extending to all corporations, copartnerships and associations

    Act 73 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

67. A further supplement to the act regulating elections in this commonwealth - amend - empowering associate judges to act as return boards where the resident president judge is a candidate

    Act 74 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

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

    Act 75 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

69. Act to establish a county court for the County of Allegheny - amend - fixing the number of judges of said court

    Act 76 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

70. Authorizing the Department of Public Instruction annually to fix the fees to be charged for the several professional examining boards within the said Department

    Act 77 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

71. Requiring all professional examining boards within the Department of Public Instruction to pay into the general fund of the State Treasury all fees received by them and all unexpended balances of moneys accrued from fees

    Act 78 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

72. Authorizing townships of the first class to create fire and water districts

    Act 79 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

73. 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 80 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

74. Act creating, regulating, and defining the powers of a County Planning Commission, and authorizing the creation of a county plan in counties of the second class - amend - requiring certain plans of streets and highways, and plans, plots, and replots of la

    Act 81 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

75. Act relating to dogs, and the protection of live stock and poultry from damage by dogs - amend - fixing the fee of the county treasurer for issuing kennel licenses

    Act 82 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

76. Act to regulate the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers - amend - defining commercial fertilizers

    Act 83 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

77. Act relating to the form, execution, revocation and interpretation of wills - amend - changing the time within which a surviving spouse must elect to take under or against the will of deceased spouse

    Act 84 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

78. Providing for the appropriation of moneys by counties toward the expense of installing ornamental illumination upon streets in the county seat on which county buildings abut

    Act 85 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

79. Medical Practice Act - amend - annual registration of all persons duly qualified and licensed to conduct the practice of medicine in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    Act 86 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

80. To authorize the Superintendent of Public Instruction to fix and collect reasonable fees for certain services rendered by that Department

    Act 87 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

81. To prevent fraudulent procedure in obtaining credentials from the Department of Public Instruction or any of the professional examining boards within such Department

    Act 88 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

82. Authorizing the Board of Trustees of Fairview State Hospital to utilize for maintenance certain moneys now in its possession

    Act 89 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

83. Further supplement to the act concerning divorces - amend - taking away the right of support of alimony in certain cases

    Act 90 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

84. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - county associations of supervisors

    Act 91 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

85. Authorizing a State association of township commissioners

    Act 92 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

86. Relating to adoption; petitions in adoption proceedings

    Act 93 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

87. Act providing for the joint acquisition and maintenance by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New York of toll-bridges over the Delaware River - amend - Auditor General, State Treasurer and Secretary of Highways constituted a commission

    Act 94 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

88. Public School Code - amend - granting full term school privilege to children in fourth class districts up to fourteen years of age

    Act 95 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

89. Act providing for the payment of the costs incurred in the trial of convicts and prisoners escaping, or attempting to escape, from the several penitentiaries and reformatories of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - amend - cost of transporting escaped

    Act 96 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

90. Consolidating into one special fund in the State Treasury all separate funds set apart in the State Treasury for the use of the Board of Fish Commissioners, formerly the Department of Fisheries

    Act 97 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

91. Act preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation within the Commonwealth of adulterated or misbranded Paris greens, lead arsenates, lime-sulphur compounds, and other insecticides and fungicides, and regulating traffic therein - amend - unnecessary

    Act 98 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

92. Act to establish a Board of Commissioners of Navigation for the river Delaware and its navigable tributaries - amend - requirement for a permit for the construction, extension, or alteration or any bridge wholly within the State

    Act 99 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

93. Supplement to an act to provide for the care and treatment of the indigent insane of the several counties of the Commonwealth, in the State hospitals for the insane - amend - fixing the maximum amount for maintenance weekly, per capita

    Act 100 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

94. 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 101 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

95. Osteopathic Practice Law - amend - by requiring osteopathic physicians to register annually; imposing a fee

    Act 102 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

96. Act to provide for the appointment of a commission to suggest revisions and amendments to the statutes of the State of Pennsylvania which relate to children, especially those which relate to the dependent, defective, delinquent, neglected, incorrigible, o

    Act 103 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

97. Act providing for the examination of the Locust Mountain Memorial Hospital of Shenandoah, Pennsylvania - amend - board of trustees

    Act 104 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

98. Authorizing the Governor to appoint a Commission to complete the printing of the report prepared by the Old Age Assistance Commission

    Act 105 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

99. State Employes' Retirement Law - amend - extending its benefits to certain employes of the Department of Public Instruction and of the Legislature

    Act 106 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

100. State Employes' Retirement Law - amend - changing the time during which a State employe shall have the option of membership in the retirement association

     Act 107 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text