Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,819 laws of the 1930s

Constitution of 1874

1. Making it unlawful to counterfeit tokens or tickets

   Act 1 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

2. Act relating to and regulating the issue and transfer of certificates of stock by companies incorporated - amend - permitting the signatures, countersignatures, and seals thereon in facsimile printed or engraved, when the certificate is signed by a transf

   Act 2 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

3. The Borough Code - amend - authorizing the setting aside in a separate fund of certain moneys not received from taxation, and the use and investment of such fund and the income thereof

   Act 3 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

4. To cede jurisdiction to the United States over the tracts of lands and buildings occupied, or hereafter to be occupied, by the United States Northeastern Penitentiary, located in the County of Union

   Act 4 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

5. Empowering courts to order the release of criminal insane for deportation by the United States

   Act 5 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

6. To fix the fees to be allowed the district attorney in counties of the second class

   Act 6 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

7. Act fixing the time when interest shall begin to run on the amounts fixed in reports of viewers for the taking, injury and destruction of property by the right of eminent domain - amend

   Act 7 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

8. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - advertising of application of charters for corporations of the first class

   Act 8 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

9. To enable the farmers of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to borrow money from the United States of America under the provisions of the Joint Resolution of Congress for the relief of farmers in the drought and storm-stricken areas of the United States -

   Act 9 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

10. Act relating to real estate given or devised to corporations to be used for religious or charitable purposes - amend - eliminating the proviso requiring such corporations to divest themselves of such real estate within five years

    Act 10 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

11. Act authorizing the council of cities of the second class to fix the salary of the heads of departments - amend - increasing the maximum

    Act 11 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

12. Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a home for disabled and indigent soldiers and sailors of Pennsylvania - amend - regulating the admission of persons to said home

    Act 12 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

13. Real Estate Brokers' License Act of 1929 - amend - limiting the necessity of licensure for members of a copartnership to such members as actually act as real estate brokers

    Act 13 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

14. Act to fix the compensation of the county treasurer of Cumberland - repeal

    Act 14 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

15. Act relating to salaries, compensation, bonds, offices, and supplies of county officers, their deputies and clerks, in counties of the sixth class - amend - payment of salaries on the fifteenth and last day of each month

    Act 15 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

16. Act providing for the incorporation, regulation, and government of cities of the third class - amend - empowering cities of the third class to license auction sales

    Act 16 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

17. Act providing for the relocation and change of width and lines of State highways in boroughs by the Secretary of Highways - amend - extending to incorporated towns

    Act 17 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

18. Act for the annexation of boroughs or townships, or part of townships, to adjacent cities - repeal

    Act 18 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

19. Act providing that in all counties having more than 500,000 inhabitants, advertisements and notices, required by law or rules of court to be published in newspapers of general circulation, shall be published in the legal newspaper - amend - eliminating th

    Act 19 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

20. To validate and confirm tax levies made for general township purposes, in excess of ten mills, by boards of township commissioners of townships of the first class

    Act 20 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

21. Act providing for the purchase of land and the erection and improvement of buildings, by counties of the fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth classes, for the purpose of providing a home for indigent orphans and neglected children - amend - extending

    Act 21 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

22. Providing for the acceptance by the Commonwealth of a gift of lands from the American Petroleum Institute, located in Venango County, to establish the Drake Well Memorial Park, under control of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission

    Act 22 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

23. Providing an additional method for the annexation of a part of a ward to a ward contiguous thereto in cities of the third class

    Act 23 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

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

    Act 24 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

25. To validate conveyances and other instruments which have been defectively acknowledged

    Act 25 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

26. Providing that upon the merger or consolidation of a hospital or home to which the General Assembly has made a maintenance appropriation, the appropriation, or the balance thereof, shall be paid to the merged or consolidated institution

    Act 26 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

27. Act relating to the sale and conveyance of real estate - amend - acceleration of vested remainders to literary, scientific, charitable, or religious corporations or associations

    Act 27 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

28. Fiduciaries Act - amend - authorizing the sale of real estate by private sale for the payment of legacies and moneys charged upon or payable out of such real estate

    Act 28 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

29. Workmen's Compensation Act - amend - double compensation for injuries to minors injured while employed illegally; defining "additional compensation"; defining the possession of an employment certificate and age certificate as conclusive evidence

    Act 29 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

30. Regulating the removal or dismissal of policemen and firemen in cities of the second class A

    Act 30 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

31. Act to authorize the formation of partnership associations in which the capital subscribed shall alone be responsible for the debts of the associations - amend - continuance of such associations after the expiration of any renewal; waiving publication of

    Act 31 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

32. Constituting a commission to procure and present to Ralph Modjeski a medal and scroll in recognition of his distinguished services to the Commonwealth

    Act 32 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

33. Act relating to county rates and levies and township rates and levies - amend - permitting the levy on and selling of personal goods and chattels of copartnerships, associations, and corporations; extend to all collectors of delinquent taxes acting under

    Act 33 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

34. Authorizing and empowering cities of the first class in this Commonwealth to acquire any land located within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania necessary for the purpose of establishing and maintaining hospitals for the care and treatment of the sick or

    Act 34 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

35. 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 - amend - requiring persons selling insecticides and

    Act 35 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

36. Act relating to the commencement of actions - amend - foreign attachment may be issued against the real or personal property of a nonresident of the State temporarily in the State at the time of issue

    Act 36 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

37. Making the surviving spouse competent to testify in all cases where the right of such spouse to share in a deceased spouse's estate in disputed because of alleged desertion or non-support of the decedent

    Act 37 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

38. Act to provide for the erection and maintaining of watering troughs for the use of horses and cattle on the public roads of this Commonwealth - repeal

    Act 38 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

39. Mental Health Act of 1923 - amend - additional penalties

    Act 39 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

40. Requiring the recording of certain written agreements pertaining to real property

    Act 40 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

41. Act providing for the joint acquisition and maintenance by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey of certain toll bridges over the Delaware River - amend - authorizing the widening of approaches to bridges; sheds for storing and

    Act 41 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

42. Act providing for the service of process in civil suits on nonresident operators, or nonresident owners, of motor vehicles operated within the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania - amend - extending to a resident who becomes a nonresident or conceals his

    Act 42 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

43. Relating to prostitution; defining and prohibiting pandering

    Act 43 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

44. Providing for the appointment and compensation of park guards in cities of the third class

    Act 44 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

45. Act for the annexation of any city, borough, township, or part of a township, to a contiguous city, and providing for the indebtedness of the same - amend - in case a part of a township is proposed to be annexed, notice shall be given and the election hel

    Act 45 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

46. Act relating to the service of certain process in actions at law - amend - giving the same effect to a single return of nihil habet in certain writs as of two returns

    Act 46 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

47. 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 decree of the courts of common pleas where the applicants for incorporation had

    Act 47 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

48. Municipal Claim and Tax Lien Law - amend - one return nihil habet of a writ of scire facias to revive shall have the same effect as two returns

    Act 48 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

49. Authorizing the Secretary of Property and Supplies to convey certain land, in the Borough of Kutztown

    Act 49 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

50. Public School Employes' Retirement Law - amend - extending the time for a present employee to elect to be covered by the retirement system

    Act 50 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

51. Newspaper Advertising Act - amend - who shall verify a proof of publication; eliminating the requirement that a receipt shall be filed before any matter or legal proceeding shall be finally determined

    Act 51 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

52. Second Class City Law - amend - making residents of adjacent territory annexed to such cities qualified to act as assessors

    Act 52 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

53. Requiring judges and district attorneys to comply with requests for information and advice received from the Board of Pardons regarding pending applications for clemency

    Act 53 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

54. Authorizing the Governor to transfer to the Armory Board of the State of Pennsylvania the use and occupancy of a tract of land of the Commonwealth now in possession of the Harrisburg State Hospital

    Act 54 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

55. Act to establish a county court for the county of Allegheny - amend - appeals from the judgment of the court in all civil actions shall be taken directly to the Supreme or Superior Court

    Act 55 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

56. Ratifying, confirming and validating transactions by boards of school directors involving defects and errors of law, but where there was no fraud, corruption, dishonesty, conspiracy to violate the law

    Act 56 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

57. Fixing the number, terms, and compensation of directors and auditors of the poor district of "The Directors of the Poor of Jenkins Township, Pittston Borough and Pittston Township;"

    Act 57 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

58. Providing for the dissolution of corporations organized for the support of public worship

    Act 58 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

59. Authorizing the merger and consolidation of corporations organized and formed for the support of public worship

    Act 59 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

60. Act conferring equity jurisdiction upon the courts of common pleas in all cases of the mortgages of the property or franchises of coal, iron, steel, lumber or oil, or mining, manufacturing or transportation companies - amend - extending to all corporation

    Act 60 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

61. Pymatuning Swamp Reservoir Project Law - amend - authorizing the development of the fishing, hunting, and other recreational resources thereof; additional powers on the Water and Power Resources Board

    Act 61 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

62. Supplement to an act to authorize the formation and regulation of railroad corporations - amend - authorizing narrow gauge railroads to change their gauge to standard gauge

    Act 62 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

63. Act authorizing and empowering the several counties of this Commonwealth to establish and maintain schools for the care and education of children under the jurisdiction of juvenile courts - amend - admission to such schools of nonresidents; use and

    Act 63 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

64. Ceding to the United States of America jurisdiction over a tract of land acquired or to be acquired for the construction of a naval hospital

    Act 64 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

65. Act relating to the election of school directors in Conyngham Township, Columbia County - repeal

    Act 65 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

66. According to the United States Commissioner of Fisheries the right to conduct fish hatching and fish culture at a fish-cultural station established by the United States within the Commonwealth

    Act 66 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

67. Authorizing the Department of Forests and Waters to construct, improve or repair, portions of roads or highways connecting roads or highways lying within areas of State forest lands with State, county or township roads or highways

    Act 67 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

68. Requiring boards of revision and boards for the assessment and revision of taxes of cities of the second class and counties of the second class to give taxables notice of increases in valuations and appeal days - enactmen

    Act 68 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

69. Act to promote the health and efficiency of firemen, in cities of the second class - amend - extending to firemen and drivers of volunteer departments when paid by the cities of the first, second and third class

    Act 69 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

70. Lapsing all unexpended or unencumbered balances of appropriations from the general fund made by the General Assembly at its session of 1927

    Act 70 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

71. For the observance of General Pulaski's Memorial Day

    Act 71 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

72. Act creating a Legislative Reference Bureau - amend - defining the powers of the director with respect to the employes of the bureau, and their salaries

    Act 72 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

73. Act to fix the salaries and compensation of the judges of Supreme Court, Superior Court, courts of common pleas, orphans'' courts, Municipal Court of Philadelphia, and County Court of Allegheny County - amend - fixing the mileage for assigned judges

    Act 73 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

74. Act to fix the salaries and compensation of the judges of Supreme Court, Superior Court, courts of common pleas, orphans'' courts, Municipal Court of Philadelphia, and County Court of Allegheny County - amend - fixing the mileage for assigned judges

    Act 74 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

75. Fiduciaries Act - amend - court may appoint a guardian, without petition

    Act 75 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

76. Act to enable the Governor to appoint Notaries Public - amend - form of notary seal

    Act 76 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

77. Pymatuning Swamp Reservoir Project Law - amend - authorizing the construction of a dam and spillway at the outlet of Pymatuning Swamp

    Act 77 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

78. Act providing for the examination, licensure, and registration of persons, firms, or corporations engaged or engaging in the business or work of plumbing or house drainage - amend - requiring master plumbers to file bonds for the faithful performance of t

    Act 78 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

79. Act defining commodities - amend - fixing the weight of bituminous coal by bushel

    Act 79 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

80. Providing for the observance and commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of the signing of the common schools law - joint resolution

    Act 80 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

81. Act conferring and imposing certain powers and duties upon the State Board of Pardons with respect to inmates of State penal and correctional institutions released on parole - amend - authorizing field parole agents to arrest parole violators

    Act 81 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

82. Act relating to persons paroled from the Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon - amend - authorizing field parole agents to arrest parole violators

    Act 82 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

83. Act providing the procedure and the powers of the State Board of Pardons and boards of trustees of penitentiaries where prisoners released on parole violate the terms of such parole - amend - authorizing field parole agents to arrest parole violators

    Act 83 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

84. Act relating to the organization, maintenance, and operation of the Department of Banking - amend - authorizing the Department of Banking to disclose contents of reports of building and loan associations

    Act 84 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

85. Transfer Inheritance Tax Law - amend - requiring executors, administrators to file with the register of wills copies of all documents received from the Federal Government making any changes in valuation of estates or in the amount of the estate tax

    Act 85 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

86. Fiduciaries Act - amend - exemption to the widow or children may be allowed and set aside without notice or appraisement, or the court may appoint two appraisers

    Act 86 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

87. Providing for and regulating the assessment and collection of a county poll tax, in counties of the second and third class, in lieu of the tax on trades, occupations and professions

    Act 87 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

88. Authorizing townships of the first class to fund floating indebtedness, orders or indebtedness of any previous year or years by the issuance and sale of bonds, obligations or certificates

    Act 88 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

89. Orphans' Court Partition Act - amend - requiring executors, administrators, or trustees, ordered to make sale of real estate, to file bonds, with sureties

    Act 89 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

90. Providing for the acquisition of land, and the erection, construction and maintenance of jails and/or workhouses by cities of the first class

    Act 90 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

91. Act regulating the satisfaction of mortgages - amend - including the equitable holder or holders of mortgages, providing that the petition for satisfaction may be made by any party in interest, and regulating the procedure for such satisfaction

    Act 91 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

92. Authorizing school districts to use moneys borrowed for purposes which have proved impracticable or impossible, for any other lawful municipal purpose

    Act 92 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

93. Act relating to free, public, nonsectarian libraries and branch libraries within this Commonwealth - amend - excepting cities, boroughs, towns, and townships, where libraries are maintained, from county library districts unless such libraries are merged w

    Act 93 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

94. Act authorizing county commissioners to repay moneys collected on forfeited recognizances - amend - extending to cases where the defendant is subsequently apprehended and returned to the jurisdiction of the court; repayment of moneys collected

    Act 94 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

95. Act providing for the registration of bottles, boxes, siphons, siphon-heads, tins, kegs, cans, soda-fountains, cylinders of carbonic acid gas, or other containers - amend - additional penalties

    Act 95 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

96. Act defining cold-storage, and regulating time of storage of certain articles of food - amend - exempting State-owned institutions operating cold-storage warehouses from the payment of license fees

    Act 96 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

97. Diseased Animal Quarantine Law - amend - regulating the bringing of cattle into areas where a modified quarantine has been established

    Act 97 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

98. Authorizing the Department of Agriculture to establish facilities for and to conduct official egg-laying contests

    Act 98 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

99. Permitting the sale of prison made goods in counties of the first class

    Act 99 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

100. Authorizing justices of the peace to take affidavits and acknowledgments without the district and county within which they reside and maintain offices provided the name of the place for which they are commissioned is appended thereto

     Act 100 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text