Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,819 laws of the 1930s

Constitution of 1874

1. Act authorizing the Secretary of Highways to establish, construct and maintain roads parallel to existing State highways, in order to relieve traffic congestion - amend - including borough streets; reimbursement of boroughs for cost of constructing street

   Act 101 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

2. Act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of cooperative agricultural associations not having a capital stock and not conducted for profit - amend - section fourteen

   Act 102 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

3. Enforcement Act - amend - payment to the holder of a chattel mortgage or conditional sale contract of the money due from the proceeds of the sale of any vehicle or conveyance seized

   Act 103 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

4. Placing upon the Commonwealth the responsibility for the construction and maintenance of bridges on State highway routes or continuations of State highway routes in boroughs, incorporated towns, cities of the third class and townships, and appropriating

   Act 104 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

5. The Liquid Fuels Tax Act

   Act 105 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

6. 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 106 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

7. Regulating the appointment or election of deputy controllers in cities of the second class

   Act 107 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

8. Making an appropriation out of the Motor License Fund to the Department of Property and Supplies to assist in the development of aeronautics

   Act 108 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

9. Act defining vocational education; providing for the establishment and regulation of vocational schools - amend - acceptance of donations; defining part-time co-operative vocational education; payments by the Commonwealth for the maintenance of evening

   Act 109 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

10. Creating borough and township poor districts in the counties of Union, Snyder, and Juniata, to be administered by overseers of the poor

    Act 110 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

11. Granting a pension to Madeline A. Albright, widow of Lieutenant John Wilson Albright of the One Hundred and Third Observation Squadron of the Twenty-eighth Division of the Pennsylvania National Guard

    Act 111 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

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

    Act 112 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

13. Authorizing the Pennsylvania Historical Commission to acquire all real property comprising the Cornwall Charcoal Furnace, in Lebanon County, and trust fund for the maintenance of the same

    Act 113 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

14. Act supplementary to an act relative to burial grounds and cemeteries situated in incorporated boroughs - amend - extending to burial grounds belonging to or in charge of municipalities

    Act 114 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

15. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - corporations organized either for the supply, storage, or transportation of water and water power, or for the supply of light, heat, and power by means of electricity may subscribe for, take, purchase, hold, and dispose o

    Act 115 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

16. Requiring certain legal proceedings against State officers to be instituted in the court of common pleas of Dauphin County

    Act 116 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

17. Act defining the powers of the several courts of quarter sessions of the peace with reference to the care, treatment, and control of dependent, neglected, incorrigible, and delinquent children - amend - in counties having a population of less than one mil

    Act 117 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

18. Act relating to the organization, maintenance, and operation of the Department of Banking - amend - additional powers on the Secretary of the Department of Banking; liquidation, reorganization, and rehabilitation of the corporations, partnerships, and per

    Act 118 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

19. To provide for an additional law judge of the court of common pleas in the twenty-ninth judicial district

    Act 119 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

20. Providing for the appointment of a parliamentarian for the House of Representatives

    Act 120 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

21. Boat Law

    Act 121 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

22. Authorizing the State Treasurer to transfer sums of money from the General Fund to the Motor License Fund

    Act 122 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

23. The Fish Law of 1925 - amend - Fish License Fund

    Act 123 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

24. Act for the refund of moneys turned into the game fund for special deer licenses - repeal

    Act 124 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

25. Act concerning poor relief and the creation and government of poor districts and the administration, except in counties of the first and second class - amend - removing the exemption of the county of Lycoming; abolishing local poor districts in said count

    Act 125 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

26. To regulate the certification and the registration of persons qualified to teach in accredited elementary and secondary schools in this State

    Act 126 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

27. Authorizing the Commonwealth to purchase at judicial sale and thereafter to hold or sell any property upon which it has a mortgage or lien

    Act 127 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

28. The Water Supply District Law

    Act 128 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

29. Supplement to the act regulating elections in this Commonwealth - amend - authorizing the members of the board for receiving, computing, and certifying election returns to provide for election returns in school districts which compromise the territory of

    Act 129 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

30. Public School Code - amend - continuance in office of officers; establishment and operation of cafeterias, kindergartens and school safety patrols; expenses for attending educational meetings; transporting children; special tax levies; salaries; purchases

    Act 130 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

31. Creating a "Greater Pennsylvania Council" for the promotion of the economic, social, industrial, agricultural, educational, civic and recreational welfare of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its citizens

    Act 131 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

32. Local Delinquent Tax Return Law

    Act 132 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

33. Act appropriating the moneys in the Motor License Fund - amend - paragraph (b) of section two, and section three, four, and six of the act

    Act 133 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

34. Authorizing cities of the first class to negotiate emergency loans for unemployment relief during the present calendar year

    Act 134 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

35. Act relating to the organization, maintenance, and operation of the Department of Banking, and the scope of its supervision and control - amend - paragraph (a) of section nine

    Act 135 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

36. The Liquid Fuels Tax Act - amend - excluding certain naphthas and kerosene, fuel oil, and gas oil, not used in internal combustion engines to propel vehicles on the public highways in the Commonwealth

    Act 136 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

37. Requiring retail dealers in liquid fuels to state the rate of the liquid fuels tax, separately from the price of such liquid fuels

    Act 137 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

38. Act fixing the liability of the counties, poor districts, and the Commonwealth for the support of the indigent and partly indigent insane in State institutions - amend - defining the procedure for the administration of the act

    Act 138 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

39. The Intra-State Bridge Revenue Bond Act

    Act 139 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

40. Dog Law of 1921 - amend - sections twenty-six, twenty-nine, thirty, thirty-two, and thirty seven

    Act 140 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

41. Act for the promotion of medical science by the distribution and use of unclaimed human bodies for scientific purposes through a board created for that purpose - amend - maintenance of the board from State appropriations; requiring all fees collected or

    Act 141 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

42. Act to fix the salaries and compensation of the judges of Supreme Court, Superior Court, courts of common pleas, orphans' court, Municipal Court of Philadelphia, and County Court of Allegheny County - amend - salaries of judges of the courts of common ple

    Act 142 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

43. The Fiscal Code - amend - settlement, assessment, collection, lien, and procedure for collection of taxes, bonus, and other moneys due the Commonwealth; refunds of moneys erroneously paid to the Commonwealth; penalties; registry of partnerships,

    Act 143 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

44. The Administrative Code of 1929 - amend - creating new administrative agencies; contracts for public work and purchases; reorganizing the conduct of the administrative work of the Commonwealth

    Act 144 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

45. The Borough Code - amend - consolidating of boroughs; change of corporate names of boroughs; costs to be charged by burgesses; bonds and duties of borough treasurers; bonds to protect labor and material-men on public works contracts; opening and vacation

    Act 145 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

46. The General County Law - amend - regulating the affairs of such counties; penalties

    Act 146 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

47. The Game Law - amend - authorizing alien nonresident licenses and reciprocal license fees; hunting license year; increasing the license fee requirements, and privileges of taxidermists; hunting of female deer; open season for raccoon and blackbirds; defin

    Act 147 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

48. Authorizing municipal subdivisions of the Commonwealth to convey or transfer to the Commonwealth any material, equipment or supplies appropriate for use in the construction or maintenance of highways

    Act 148 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

49. Act to amend an act, entitled 'Relative to notaries public' - amend - requiring notaries public to maintain an office at the place named in the notary commission, and to specify such place on notarial acts performed elsewhere

    Act 149 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

50. Further supplement to the act entitled an act to enable the Governor to appoint Notaries Public - amend - requiring notaries to take the constitutional oath of office, and to file their bond, commission, and oath within a certain time

    Act 150 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

51. State Workmen's Insurance Fund Law - amend - applications for insurance; removing the necessity for an oath or affirmation

    Act 151 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

52. Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons and drugs - amend - requiring assistant pharmacist to have completed a course of two years in a recognized college of pharmacy

    Act 152 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

53. To provide for the better protection of life and health of the citizens of this Commonwealth by requiring and regulating the examination, licensure, and registration of persons, and registration of corporations, engaging in the care, preparation, and disp

    Act 153 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

54. Act to authorize foreign corporations to become corporations of Pennsylvania - amend - amount of bonus due

    Act 154 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

55. Act relating to eggs, prohibiting the sale, offering for sale, exposing for sale, or having in possession with intent to sell, eggs, for and as fresh, that are not fresh eggs - amend - establishment of a standard of fresh eggs; powers and duties on the De

    Act 155 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

56. Relating to the trespassing of live stock on improved lands

    Act 156 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

57. Act to protect the public health by regulating the manufacture, preparation, handling, storage, sale, transportation, and possession of meat and meat-food products - amend - prohibit the unlawful making, duplicating, using, possession, affixing, and attac

    Act 157 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

58. The Uniform Firearms Act

    Act 158 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

59. Act regulating the closing of public highways and providing for the locating, marking, and maintenance of detours - amend - ascertainment of damages in case of disagreement

    Act 159 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

60. Act establishing certain public roads as State highways - amend - route 354

    Act 160 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

61. Authorizing building and loan associations to permit borrowers to have the dues on the stock credited on account of the principal of the loan

    Act 161 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

62. Providing that where a scire facias is issued on a judgment to revive or extend the lien thereof, such lien shall take effect from the date of issuance of the writ

    Act 162 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

63. Egg Law - amend - making unlawful the sale, possession, and use of incubated and incubator reject eggs, unless such eggs or their containers or foods in which used are properly stamped

    Act 163 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

64. Act for the protection of the public health, and to prevent fraud and deception in the manufacture, sale, offering for sale, exposing for sale, and having in possession with intent to sell, of adulterated or deleterious ice cream - amend - extending to sh

    Act 164 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

65. Providing for the licensure and regulation of certain private nursing homes and private hospitals

    Act 165 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

66. Industrial Farms and Workhouses Law

    Act 166 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

67. State Employes' Retirement Law - amend - clerks and secretaries appointed by judges to become members of retirement system; original and new members; permitting members to change the class for the making of deductions and for retirement purposes;

    Act 167 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

68. The General Poor Relief Act of 1925 - amend - authorizing the directors to make temporary loans to meet unusual expenditures

    Act 168 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

69. Supplement to an act, entitled, An act to establish a Board of Commissioners of Navigation for the River Delaware; to provide and maintain a nautical school - amend - instruction in seamanship, steam and electrical engineering; payment of fees by nonres

    Act 169 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

70. Act authorizing the Pennsylvania Historical Commission to acquire land in Falls Township, Bucks County, known as 'Pennsbury', to be known thereafter as 'Pennsbury Memorial' - amend - the land so acquired may revert to the donor

    Act 170 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

71. Authorizing the Water and Power Resources Board of the Department of Forests and Waters on its own volition, or at request to define the locations, fix the regimen, protect the bed and banks, plug up holes in the beds and banks, and build dams, in rivers

    Act 171 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

72. The Public Service Company Law - defining the duty of the court on appeals from orders of the commission; orders of the commission shall be prima facie evidence

    Act 172 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

73. To prevent fraud and deception in sales, by auction, advertised, represented, or held out to be an insurance, bankrupt, mortgage, insolvent, assignee's, executor's, administrator's, receiver's, trustee's, removal, or closing out or quitting business sale,

    Act 173 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

74. Empowering cities, towns, and townships of the first class to regulate and license, by any transient retail business

    Act 174 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

75. Act applying to third class counties only, and regulating the selection, drawing, and summoning of all jurors and talesmen - amend - drawing of jurors when the jury wheel has been filled under the provision of another act

    Act 175 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

76. Second Class County Jury Selection Law - amend - regulating the personnel of the board

    Act 176 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

77. Act to define the crime of arson, and attempted arson - amend - extending to include other buildings and structures

    Act 177 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

78. Act relative to the distribution of the proceeds of sheriffs' sales of real estate in the county of Allegheny - amend - changing the manner in which sheriffs shall make returns of sales of real estate

    Act 178 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

79. Act to authorize courts of common pleas to issue writs of subpoena requiring witnesses to attend and testify under oath for the purpose of investing charges against the professional conduct of members of the bar of said courts - amend - extending to the

    Act 179 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

80. Intangible Personal Property Tax Law - amend - efficient assessment of property and collection of taxes; interest; penalties in cases of the refusal or failure of taxables to make return, and/or where a taxable makes a false or incomplete return; authoriz

    Act 180 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

81. Act authorizing appeals from the decision of the various courts of common pleas, in assessment of taxes cases, to the Supreme or Superior Court of the Commonwealth - amend - extending the right of appeal to any county, city, borough, town, township,

    Act 181 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

82. Act authorizing appeals from assessment of taxes in this Commonwealth to the courts of common pleas - amend - payment of taxes appealed from into court

    Act 182 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

83. Second Class City Law - amend - authorizing the creation of sign districts or zones in which special regulations may be in force for the regulating of signs

    Act 183 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

84. Second Class City Employe Pension Law - amend - permitting retirement of employes on pension at less than sixty years of age

    Act 184 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

85. Supplement to an act, entitled Second Class City Law - amend - defining the term "subdivision of land, plat and plan of lots"

    Act 185 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

86. Act providing that estates in buildings, grounds, books, curios, pictures, statuary and other works of art, passing by will to any municipality, corporation, or unincorporated body, for free exhibition within Pennsylvania, shall not be subject to collater

    Act 186 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

87. Act to provide revenue by imposing a mercantile license tax on venders of or dealers in goods, wares and merchandise - amend - changing the date upon which the city or county treasurer is required to sue for the recovery of certain licenses duly returned

    Act 187 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

88. Relating to the settlement of the estates of deceased minors

    Act 188 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

89. Act relating to practice in the courts of common pleas in actions of assumpsit and trespass, except actions for libel and slander - amend - permitting a party to an action to require proof by the opposite party of facts

    Act 189 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

90. Act relating to executions - amend - no writ of capias ad satisfaciendum shall issue on any judgment of less than one hundred dollars

    Act 190 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

91. Act regulating the recording of certain deeds, conveyances, and other instruments or writing - amend - fixing the effect of recording as to judgment creditors

    Act 191 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

92. To authorize boroughs to sue out writs of scire facias on certain municipal claims, where more than five years have elapsed since said claims were filed, and to reduce such claims to judgment

    Act 192 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

93. Act relating to salaries, compensation, bonds, offices, and supplies of county officers, their deputies and clerks, in counties of the sixth class - amend - fixing the salary of the controller

    Act 193 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

94. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - in the case of the sale, assignment, disposition, or conveyance by building and loan associations of their franchises and property to other building and loan associations, notice of the time, place and object of the meeti

    Act 194 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

95. Act relating to the organization, maintenance, and operation of the Department of Banking, and the scope of its supervision - amend - pledgees of assets of institutions in the possession of the Secretary of Banking may not forfeit or sell the same

    Act 195 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

96. Act providing for the licensing and regulation of foreign companies, corporations, limited partnerships, joint stock associations, or investment companies, organized under the laws of any other State or Territory, the District of Columbia, or any other co

    Act 196 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

97. Providing for the purchase of reinsurance for the benefit of holders of outstanding policies, issued by any company authorized to insure titles, of which possessions may be taken by the Secretary of Banking

    Act 197 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

98. Bank Collection Act of 1931

    Act 198 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

99. Prohibiting certain persons, corporations, associations and companies from engaging in the business of soliciting and accepting premiums or dues and selling policies or contracts guaranteeing to owners of motor vehicles the services of attorneys or provid

    Act 199 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

100. Providing for joint action by Pennsylvania and New Jersey in the development of the ports on the lower Delaware River, and the improvement of the facilities for transportation across the river; creating The Delaware River Joint Commission

     Act 200 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text