Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,402 laws of the 1920s

Constitution of 1874

1. State Employes' Retirement Law - amend - imposing duties upon recipients of state annuities thereunder

   Act 108 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

2. Public School Employes' Retirement Law - amend - changing the time when employes can withdrawal from the retirement system

   Act 109 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

3. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - investment of trust funds

   Act 110 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

4. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - limiting contracts for garbage collection to 3 years

   Act 111 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

5. Act authorizing the erection and construction by counties of memorial halls in memory of the soldiers, sailors, and marines of such counties - amend - including the Veterans of Foreign Wars; board of control

   Act 112 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

6. Providing constables' fees for service of writs in juvenile cases

   Act 113 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

7. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - authorizing townships of the first class to contract with private water companies for a supply of water for public and private uses

   Act 114 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

8. Act to provide for the payment of the expenses of the maintenance and instruction of children, committed to Houses of Refuge jointly by the State and by the counties from which they may be sent - amend - changing the time of payment by counties

   Act 115 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

9. Forest Fire Protection Law - amend - penalty for interfering with notices posted by the Department

   Act 116 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

10. Public School Code - amend - free evening schools; course of study

    Act 117 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

11. Further supplement to an act to establish a county court for the county of Allegheny - amend - requiring the salary board to fix the salaries of all employes of such juvenile court

    Act 118 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

12. Public School Employes' Retirement Law - amend - additional service credit; changing the rules relating to the State annuity and the contribution of employes; extending to persons on the retired list

    Act 119 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

13. Public School Code - amend - repeal section 1,702; designating six-year, four-year, three-year, and two-year high schools and junior high schools; establishing new high school in district of the fourth class

    Act 120 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

14. Act to regulate the construction, maintenance, and inspection of buildings used for the exhibition of moving-pictures, in all cities of the first class - amend - heating by means of mechanical warm air

    Act 121 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

15. Act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the bituminous coal-mines of Pennsylvania - amend - storage battery locomotives

    Act 123 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

16. Act providing for the appointment of boards of examiners to examine applicants for certificates of qualification as mine foreman, assistant mine foreman, and fire bosses in the bituminous coal mines of this Commonwealth - amend - change in the

    Act 124 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

17. Act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the bituminous coal-mines of Pennsylvania - amend - dampening of dust; electric lamps

    Act 125 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

18. Act to provide for the health and safety of persons employed in and about the bituminous coal mines of Pennsylvania - amend - exchanging maps of mines when above or below other mines

    Act 126 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

19. Act providing for the incorporation, regulation, and government of cities of the third class - amend - cities of said class shall have the right to exercise the powers and authority of local self-government in all municipal affairs

    Act 127 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

20. Act fixing the salary of the county engineer in counties containing a population of more than 800,000 and less than 1,000,000 - repeal

    Act 128 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

21. Enabling cities of any one class and the cities of two of more classes uniting together for the same purpose to form and organize leagues

    Act 129 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

22. Supplement to an act regulating lateral railroads - amend - shall not disturb existing workings of any other mine

    Act 130 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

23. Providing that certificates of association and articles of incorporation or of any improvements, amendments, or alterations thereto may be acknowledged and sworn or affirmed to before a notary public or justice of the peace

    Act 131 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

24. Providing that borough records may be typewritten, and validating records typewritten

    Act 132 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

25. 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 in Pennsylvania, as may be necessary and proper for the exercise of such of their corporate purpose

    Act 133 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

26. Penal Code of 1860 - amend - sentence

    Act 134 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

27. Authorizing county commissioners to make, execute, and deliver agreements and contracts for the improvement or maintenance of highways involving the expenditure of county money alone, or in conjunction with that of any township, borough, or incorporated

    Act 135 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

28. Authorizing and empowering the Department of Welfare to sell surplus products of prison industries to the Government of the United States and to any state or commonwealth of the United States

    Act 136 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

29. Authorizing the Department of Property and Supplies to exchange unserviceable personal property of this Commonwealth for, or on account of, the purchase price of new personal property required by the Commonwealth

    Act 137 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

30. Making an appropriation to carry into effect the act providing for the erection and construction by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey of a bridge over the Delaware River, connecting the city of Philadelphia and the city of

    Act 138 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

31. Establishing certain public roads as State highways

    Act 139 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

32. Supplement to an act empowering railroad companies to employ police force - amend - extending to certain other companies

    Act 140 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

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

    Act 141 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

34. Act to amend an act regulating the compensation of court criers and tipstaves, in counties containing more than 90,000 and less than 150,000 inhabitants - amend - salaries

    Act 142 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

35. Act providing for county poor districts in counties of the seventh class - amend - special tax to pay debt, cost of real estate, etc.

    Act 143 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

36. Act providing for the appointment of assistant district attorneys in the counties of this Commonwealth having a population of over 1,000,000 and less than 1,500,000 inhabitants - amend - extending to counties of the second class; increasing the number and

    Act 144 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

37. Authorizing the register of wills and ex-officio clerk of the orphans' court to fix and determine the salaries of assistant clerks in said court

    Act 145 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

38. Act authorizing the courts of this Commonwealth to certify the evidence and enter judgment upon the whole record, whenever a request for binding instructions has been reserved or declined by the trial judge - amend - authorizing appeals whenever under suc

    Act 146 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

39. Providing for the payment by counties and poor districts of the salaries of officers where pending the settlement of a dispute the salary paid to such officer was less than the amount to which he was legally entitled

    Act 147 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

40. Authorizing local boards of health of cities of the third class, boroughs, and first-class townships of the Commonwealth to organize county health associations

    Act 148 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

41. Act providing for the incorporation, regulation, and government of cities of the third class - amend - changing the salaries of councilmen and mayors

    Act 149 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

42. Act concerning game and other wild birds and wild animals - amend - dog pursuing elk or deer; when licenses expire

    Act 150 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

43. Validating certain consolidations, mergers, purchases, sales, or acquisitions of capital stock, bonds, securities, or evidence of indebtedness, corporate property rights, and credits of telephone companies, and the proceedings of such companies effecting

    Act 151 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

44. Paint, Putty and Naval Stores Law

    Act 152 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

45. Providing for the hearing, adjusting, and paying of moral claims against the Commonwealth for injury to, or death of, persons while fighting forest fires under orders of agents of the Department of Forests and Waters

    Act 153 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

46. Establishing a State highway in the County of Elk

    Act 154 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

47. Relating to Boarding Houses for Infants

    Act 155 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

48. Act relating to mattresses, pillows, bolsters, feather beds, comfortables, cushions, and upholstered furniture - amend - defining "shoddy"; unlawful to sell used mattresses, etc., until disinfected; tags; applicant to be registered and numbered

    Act 156 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

49. Authorizing counties, cities, boroughs, towns, and townships to appropriate money and to borrow money for use by the Commonwealth in the construction and completion of any project or improvement authorized by law for the conservation of water and control

    Act 157 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

50. Applying to third class counties only, and regulating the selection, drawing, and summoning of all jurors and talesmen, and defining their qualifications in such counties; creating a jury board

    Act 158 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

51. Act to regulate the employment of women and children employed at wages or salary, by regulating the age at which minors can be employed and by fixing the hours of labor for women and minors - amend - appropriating to the Department of Labor and Industry

    Act 159 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

52. Act relating to and regulating the use and operation of motor vehicles and vehicles propelled by, or trailing after, motor vehicles - amend - defining "commercial vehicle", "motor bus", and "motor omnibus"; registration of motor bus; plates of manufacture

    Act 160 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

53. Act relating to and regulating the use and operation of motor vehicles and vehicles propelled by, or trailing after, motor vehicles - amend - Motor License Fund

    Act 161 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

54. Act providing a system of registering titles to motor vehicles for the protection of owners of motor vehicles and to facilitate the recovery of motor vehicles stolen or unlawfully taken - amend - statement of liens; encumbrances or legal claims; delivery

    Act 162 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

55. Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons and drugs - amend - qualifications for registration as assistant pharmacist; registration, certificate, and fee; unlawful use of title

    Act 163 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

56. Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons and drugs - amend - registration of apprentices in pharmacy

    Act 164 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

57. Supplement to an act supplementary to an act relative to burial grounds and cemeteries situated in incorporated boroughs - amend - removal may be authorized when such land is desired by said municipalities for opening, laying out or extending streets, or

    Act 165 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

58. Act empowering and directing the county commissioners of any county to purchase ground at the county seat for the erection of buildings as may be necessary for the accommodation of the courts, officers of the county, and for the reception and safe-keeping

    Act 166 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

59. Authorizing and directing the Department of Welfare to pay from the manufacturing fund wages to all inmates in penitentiaries, reformatories, and other correctional institutions of the Commonwealth who perform labor necessary to the proper maintenance of

    Act 167 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

60. Fixing the pay of election officers and clerks in counties of the second class

    Act 168 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

61. Authorizing counties, cities, boroughs, incorporated towns, townships, and school districts to make contracts of insurance with mutual fire insurance companies duly authorized to transact business in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    Act 169 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

62. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - establishment of lights along village streets in townships of the first class; levy of a special tax

    Act 170 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

63. Act to provide for the employment, care, and treatment of the insane, feeble-minded, and epileptic persons confined in institutions - amend - disposition of products made in such institutions; authorizing boards of trustees of State institutions to use th

    Act 171 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

64. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - creation of townships of the first class

    Act 172 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

65. To provide for the preparation of plans for the use of viewers, owners, tenants, and occupiers of property affected in proceedings for the assessment of damages for the taking, injury, or destruction of private property for public use

    Act 173 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

66. Act relating to the sale of goods - amend - including "choses in action" as well as "goods"

    Act 174 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

67. Act prescribing the manner and time of submitting to the qualified electors of the State proposed amendments to the Constitution to determine whether approved by a majority of those voting - amend - submitting at first municipal or general election

    Act 175 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

68. Authorizing sheriffs in counties of the third class to appoint a solicitor

    Act 176 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

69. Act reorganizing the Department of State Police; creating therein a Bureau of Fire Protection - amend - appointment and term of superintendent

    Act 177 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

70. Act to prevent the damages which may happen by firing of woods - repeal

    Act 178 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

71. Act to amend the Osteopathic Practice Law - amend - Superintendent of Public Instruction is chairman of the Osteopathic Surgeons' Examining Board

    Act 179 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

72. Relating to the destruction of cancelled or unused bonds or other evidences of indebtedness of the Commonwealth

    Act 180 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

73. Act to prevent the burning of the woods in any of the countries of this Commonwealth - repeal

    Act 181 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

74. Relating to raising forest tree seedlings and transplants by inmates of penal and correctional institutions of the Commonwealth, and authorizing their purchase by the Department of Forests and Waters

    Act 182 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

75. Act to protect the State Forest Reserves - amend - injury, destruction or removal of trees or shrubs; penalty; fines

    Act 183 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

76. Act to protect trees and woodlands - amend - injury, destruction or removal of trees or shrubs; penalty; fines

    Act 184 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

77. For the distribution by the Commonwealth and counties to townships and school districts of moneys received from the United States from Forest Reserves within the Commonwealth

    Act 185 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

78. Act defining commodities; regulating the sale thereof - amend - changing the legal weight of apples

    Act 186 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

79. To authorize cities of the first class and adjoining counties to enter into contracts and proceed with the work of construction and maintenance of meadow-banks and dikes at or near the boundary line between said cities and adjoining counties

    Act 187 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

80. 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

    Act 188 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

81. To provide for the conduct of business in orphans' courts in cases of vacancies in the office of orphans' court judge

    Act 189 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

82. Act requiring licenses to sell steamship tickets or orders for transportation to and from foreign countries - amend - extending the parties to whom said act shall not apply

    Act 190 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

83. Supplement to an act to provide for the better government of cities of the first class in this Commonwealth; creating a Department of Wharves, Docks, and Ferries - amend - requirement for a permit for the construction, extension, or alteration of any brid

    Act 191 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

84. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - contracts and purchases

    Act 192 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

85. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - authorizing two or more boroughs to act jointly in the acquisition, improvement, maintenance, and control of public parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, and gymnasiums

    Act 193 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

86. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - authorizing boroughs to erect, establish, and maintain market houses and market places

    Act 194 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

87. Mental Health Act of 1923 - amend - admission of persons 20 years of age or over; sale of products

    Act 195 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

88. Empowering counties to take, purchase, or condemn property, and to appropriate money for the erection thereon of public auditoriums, libraries, memorial buildings, and monuments

    Act 196 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

89. Giving the assent of the Commonwealth to the act of Congress entitled an act to authorize the more complete endowment of agricultural experiment stations

    Act 197 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

90. Empowering cities and counties to jointly take, purchase, or condemn property and to appropriate money for the erection thereon of public auditoriums, libraries, memorial buildings, and monuments

    Act 198 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

91. Providing for the compensation of the county solicitor and the solicitor of the county controller in counties of the third and fourth class

    Act 199 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

92. Act authorizing cities of the third class to regulate the location of business, trades, and industries - amend - regulating and restricting the height, number of stories, bulk, and size of buildings; percentage of lot that may be occupied; size, depth, an

    Act 200 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

93. Public School Code - amend - allowing boards of school directors to acquire school sites, playgrounds, or buildings in another district

    Act 201 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

94. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - additional method for meeting the cost of the construction of new water mains in connection with municipally owned water supply systems in boroughs by empowering boroughs to assess all or a part

    Act 202 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

95. Empowering boroughs to purchase, own, use, operate, and control any natural gas wells within the limits of such boroughs or in the vicinity thereof for a supply of natural gas for municipal purposes

    Act 203 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

96. Act to fix the number and salaries of assistant district attorneys in counties of this Commonwealth having over 1,500,000 inhabitants - amend - increasing the number and salaries of the assistant district attorneys thereof

    Act 204 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

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

    Act 205 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

98. Providing for the payment quarterly by counties of the expenses of keeping convicts in the penitentiaries

    Act 206 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

99. Public School Employes' Retirement Law - amend - reinstatement of persons separating from school service for more than five years and returning thereto; changing the rate of payment to State Annuity Reserve Fund Number Two

    Act 207 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

100. Prohibiting the manufacture of gambling machines

     Act 208 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text