Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,402 laws of the 1920s

Constitution of 1874

1. For the identification of infants born in places where maternity cases are handled; providing for the taking of finger or foot prints of infants

   Act 209 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

2. Conferring on the Department of Highways the right to change or protect existing stream channels on private lands adjacent to highways in order to protect the highways in a proper manner

   Act 210 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

3. Providing for the clerk of the court of quarter sessions of the several counties of this Commonwealth to certify to the Department of Highways the establishment of all new townships and boroughs within said county, fixing fee for such certification - enac

   Act 211 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

4. Conferring on the Department of Highways power to enter upon private property, and open and maintain drainage channels along roads or highways

   Act 212 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

5. Authorizing county commissioners in cases of emergency to construct or reconstruct county bridges upon the approval of the court of quarter sessions

   Act 213 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

6. Act regulating certain political parties - amend - change the time for filing petitions of nomination and for withdrawal of candidates

   Act 214 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

7. Act creating a Division of Township Highways in the State Highway Department - repeal - section eleven

   Act 215 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

8. Act creating a Division of Township Highways in the State Highway Department - repeal - section nine

   Act 216 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

9. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - Department of Highways to decentralize to townships of the first class; authorized township to collect and retain fees

   Act 217 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

10. Act establishing certain public roads as State highways - amend - route 359

    Act 218 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

11. Providing for the improvement or repair by the Department of Highways of any portion of a road or highway lying within the area of State forest lands which is deemed necessary to the development, protection, or use by the public

    Act 219 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

12. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - classification and regulation of buildings

    Act 220 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

13. Act to amend an act providing for a system of government for boroughs to empower boroughs, to grade, pave, curb, macadamize, or otherwise improve public streets - repeal

    Act 221 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

14. Act authorizing the erection and construction by counties of memorial halls in memory of the soldiers, sailors, and marines of such counties - amend - in counties of the first class, the expenditures of which are defrayed by any city within such counties,

    Act 222 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

15. Providing for the care and maintenance by cities, boroughs, incorporated towns, and townships of any soldiers' monument, gun, or carriage or other similar memorial, where there is no person, body, or organization in existence to care for and maintain the

    Act 223 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

16. Act to provide revenue by imposing a mercantile license tax on vendors of or dealers in goods, wares, and merchandise - amend - fixing the mercantile license tax for dealers beginning business on or after May first

    Act 224 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

17. Public School Code - amend - changing the valuation per teacher in school districts of the fourth class

    Act 225 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

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

    Act 226 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

19. Act relating to certain county officers in counties of the fifth class; establishing a salary board - amend - salaries not to exceed the fees collected during the term of office

    Act 227 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

20. Public School Code - amend - authorizing school districts of the second class to employ certified public accountants

    Act 228 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

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

    Act 229 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

22. Authorizing and regulating police pension funds in townships of the first class

    Act 230 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

23. 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 231 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

24. Penal Code of 1860 - amend - false pretense by officer, agent or employe of a corporation, partnership of association

    Act 232 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

25. Replevin Law - amend - discharge of bonds in replevin cases after failure to bring action thereon

    Act 233 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

26. 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 - including public parks

    Act 234 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

27. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - system of sewers and drains in townships of the second class; acquisition of private sewer systems

    Act 235 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

28. Providing for the admission of testimony given in ejectment suits upon a retrial and in subsequent real issues when the parties claim under a common source

    Act 236 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

29. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - election of township commissioners in first class townships not divided into wards

    Act 237 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

30. Act providing that in all counties having more than 500,000 inhabitants, advertisements and notices shall be published in the legal newspapers - amend - extending to counties of the fifth class

    Act 238 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

31. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - misfeasance of township supervisors a misdemeanor

    Act 239 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

32. Relating to the dissolution of corporations; and imposing certain duties on the Secretary of the Commonwealth and the prothonotaries

    Act 240 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

33. Act relating to deeds for conveying or releasing lands - amend - interest conveyed; abolishing the necessity of personal seal on deeds or instruments in writing for conveying or releasing lands

    Act 241 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

34. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - permitting the establishment of lights along county highways, with the approval of the county commissioners, in townships of the first class

    Act 242 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

35. Further supplement to Tax Act - amend - time for filing return may be extended upon application

    Act 243 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

36. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - cost of improvement of boundary street or alley entirely within borough may be assessed on abutting property on opposite side in same manner as on side within borough

    Act 244 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

37. Act providing a system of government for boroughs - amend - regulate markets and peddling, whether for individual use or for resale

    Act 245 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

38. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - penalty added on road tax

    Act 246 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

39. Public School Code - amend - permitting school boards to assign pupils to schools in other States and to pay their tuition to such schools

    Act 247 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

40. Authorizing cities of the first class to acquire land for the purpose of holding public expositions celebrating sesqui-centennials

    Act 248 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

41. Providing for the transfer by the Adjutant General of land conveyed to the Commonwealth for armory purposes where such land cannot be used for such purpose

    Act 249 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

42. Act defining vocational education; providing for the establishment and regulation of vocational schools - amend - manner of disbursement of State and Federal funds for the furtherance of vocational education

    Act 250 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

43. Public School Code - amend - provisions against fire hazard in school buildings

    Act 251 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

44. General Road Law - amend - authorizing in proceedings pending or hereafter begun such bridges to be located wherever necessary

    Act 252 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

45. Providing for the improvement of certain streets, alleys, and highways on the boundary lines of cities, boroughs, and townships, and the assessment of properties abutting thereon, but lying outside the limits of such cities, boroughs, or townships - enact

    Act 253 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

46. Public School Code - amend - Commonwealth's share of teachers' salaries

    Act 254 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

47. Public School Code - amend - compensation of teachers attending institute

    Act 255 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

48. Public School Code - amend - changing the penalty to be added to delinquent school taxes; rebates in second class districts

    Act 256 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

49. Public School Code - amend - definition of cost of tuition; calculation of per capita cost; charge for non-resident pupil

    Act 257 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

50. Public School Code - amend - certification of residence

    Act 258 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

51. Declaring it to be larceny for any person to steal, take, or carry away, any property growing or being on the land of another

    Act 259 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

52. Authorizing the Secretary of Highways of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to accept certain roads heretofore ceded to the United States of America and located within the limits of the National Park at Gettysburg

    Act 260 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

53. Fiduciaries Act of 1917 - amend - extending the statutes of limitations in actions against decedents' estates

    Act 261 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

54. Public School Code - amend - schools closed in districts of fourth class

    Act 262 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

55. The Fish Law of 1925

    Act 263 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

56. Authorizing the employment of stenographers by the district attorneys of certain countries

    Act 264 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

57. Act regulating the method and procedure in the erection of line or partition fences - amend - fence views in cities of the third class by the members of council

    Act 265 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

58. To provide for the equalization of educational opportunity and the encouragement of the study of citizenship by recognition of extension education, for boys and girls who are employed and for adults, as a function of the public schools of this

    Act 266 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

59. Authorizing municipalities to expend money for the purpose of insuring volunteer firemen against death or injuries while going to or returning from or attending fires

    Act 267 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

60. Fixing the fee to be charged for the issuing of marriage licenses

    Act 268 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

61. Public School Code - amend - extending time for increasing indebtedness

    Act 269 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

62. Tax Act - amend - eliminating provisions for the taxation of bank stock on the par value thereof

    Act 270 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

63. Act to amend an act increasing the salaries of tipstaves in the courts of any county in this Commonwealth having a population of not less than 500,000 - amend - increasing the salary of said tipstaves

    Act 271 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

64. Act making it a misdemeanor for persons to unlawfully use or wear the insignia or button of the American Legion or the official decorations - amend - extending to the Veterans of Foreign Wars

    Act 272 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

65. Authorizing municipalities to impose a penalty on all municipal assessments which are not paid within ninety days from the date of the assessment

    Act 273 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

66. Act to provide for licensing and regulating private banking in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - amend - exceptions to which the provisions of the act shall not apply

    Act 274 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

67. To ascertain and appoint the fees to be received by the several prothonotaries of the courts of common pleas of the Commonwealth in counties having a population of less than 150,000

    Act 275 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

68. Act providing for the incorporation, regulation, and government of cities of the third class - amend - charge on property for the use of sewers and sewage disposal plants

    Act 276 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

69. The Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - appropriation of fees collected by the department for expenditure by the department for administration purposes

    Act 277 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

70. Authorizing the Department of Highways to make repairs to and provide for the maintenance of roads and highways in Valley Forge Park

    Act 278 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

71. Authorizing the issue and sale of bonds to the amount of eight millions of dollars by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    Act 279 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

72. Authorizing the issue and sale of bonds to the amount of twenty-five millions of dollars by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

    Act 280 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

73. Making an appropriation to the Lake Erie and Ohio River Canal Board of Pennsylvania for the payment of expenses incurred in printing, distributing, and making available for public use reports, maps, documents, and records of the board

    Act 281 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

74. Concerning the identification and marking of graves of soldiers and sailors of the Revolutionary War, imposing certain duties on the Adjutant General

    Act 282 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

75. Further supplement to Tax Act - amend - deductions allowed in reporting; certain credits allowed in making payment

    Act 283 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

76. Securities act - amend - exempting building and loan associations, banks, savings banks, and trust companies

    Act 284 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

77. Act relating to dogs, and the protection of live stock and poultry from damage by dogs - amend - appropriation of the moneys in the "Dog Fund" for the two fiscal years commencing June 1, 1925

    Act 285 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

78. Act providing for the incorporation, regulation, and government of cities of the third class - amend - authorizing cities to construct house connections from sewers to curbs and to assess the cost thereof to property owners

    Act 286 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

79. Ratifying and confirming all of the actions of the "Pennsylvania Commission" and of the "Joint Commission" created by an act providing for the erection and construction by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey of a bridge over the

    Act 287 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

80. 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 Camden - amend - Governor, the Auditor General, and th

    Act 288 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

81. Act authorizing the State Highway Commissioner to combine State highways into a route under a common letter, name, number, or other marker or designation, for the purpose of informing and assisting the traveling public - amend -authorizing the inclusion o

    Act 289 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

82. Providing for the protection of the public health and the prevention of fraud and deception by regulating the weighing, testing, buying, and selling of milk and cream

    Act 290 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

83. Act in relation to legal advertisements in the county of Lycoming - repeal

    Act 291 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

84. Act to authorize counties, cities, boroughs, towns, townships, school districts. and poor districts to require a bond to protect labor and material-men; furnishing labor and material in and about the erection, alteration, addition, and repair of public bu

    Act 292 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

85. Public School Code - amend - including payments for part-time teachers in extension schools and classes

    Act 293 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

86. Making it unlawful to bribe, or attempt to bribe, any professional baseball player, professional foot-ball player, boxer, or wrestler, and for such to accept bribes

    Act 294 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

87. Act authorizing and empowering the courts of common pleas of the Commonwealth to discharge lands bound by the lien of any sum or sums of money, under the provisions of any last will and testament, for the maintenance of a burial lot or lots - amend -

    Act 295 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

88. Providing for the widening, altering, or vacating of roads heretofore laid out within the Commonwealth, and known as State roads

    Act 296 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

89. Act authorizing the release on probation of certain convicts, instead of imposing sentences - amend - authorizing courts to require defendants placed on probation to pay money for the use of the county, which payments shall not be considered the impositio

    Act 297 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

90. Prohibiting the discharge of sewage and all drainage, except surface drainage, on or within the legal limits of any public road

    Act 298 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

91. Act concerning townships; consolidating the law relating thereto - amend - tax for housing fire apparatus

    Act 299 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

92. To provide for the sale of property against which a common law lien may exist for repairs and material

    Act 300 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

93. Fixing the salary of sheriffs in counties of the sixth class

    Act 301 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

94. Second Class County Jury Selection Law

    Act 302 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

95. Regulating and providing fees of the several clerks of quarter sessions of this Commonwealth, other than in counties of the first and second classes

    Act 303 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

96. Validating ordinances, assessments, and proceedings by councils in cities, for the paving and curbing of public highways

    Act 304 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

97. Validating ordinances and proceedings by councils in boroughs for the paving and curbing of public highways

    Act 305 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

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

    Act 306 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

99. To validate certain proceedings for municipal improvements, municipal assessments, municipal claims, and municipal liens in the several boroughs of this Commonwealth

    Act 307 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text

100. Validating certain proceedings and elections had and held for the purpose of increasing the indebtedness of such municipalities or the refunding of the existing indebtedness to provide for the redemption of same

     Act 308 of 1925 · 1925 · Original text