Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,819 laws of the 1930s

Constitution of 1874

1. Authorizing the Department of Property and Supplies to acquire lands in Centre County, for the use of the Department of Military Affairs

   Act 201 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

2. Barbers' License Law

   Act 202 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

3. Township State Highway Law

   Act 203 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

4. Permitting cities of the second class A to adopt for tax purposes the assessment valuations fixed by the county assessors in lieu of separate city assessments

   Act 204 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

5. Workmen's Compensation Act of 1915 - amend - method for the service of notice of judgment upon parties or counsel in compensation cases

   Act 205 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

6. Permitting savings banks, savings institutions, and provident institutions to invest monies deposited with them in obligations of certain public utility companies

   Act 206 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

7. Act requiring persons, partnerships, associations, or corporations advertising for or soliciting business as adjusters of claims within this Commonwealth for loss or damage arising out of policies of insurance, surety, or indemnity on property, persons, o

   Act 207 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

8. Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - limitation on the amount of hazard that can be assumed on any risk

   Act 208 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

9. The Insurance Department Act of 1921 - amend - fines; including public adjusters; licensing of insurance agents

   Act 209 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

10. Act making it a misdemeanor to make or use a false statement or statements in writing, for the purpose of obtaining property, money, credit, or the extension of credit - amend - include the procuring of contracts of surety bonds therein

    Act 210 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

11. To prevent fraudulent procedure in obtaining or altering licenses or certificates from the Insurance Department

    Act 211 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

12. Act authorizing the payment of benefits by certain beneficial societies in the event of sickness, accident, disability, or death - amend - imposition of penalties following hearing by the Insurance Commissioner

    Act 212 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

13. The Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - authorizing minors of the age of 18 years and upwards to become members of any life insurance company, and giving them full powers, rights and privileges in contracts relative to insurance; repeal - section 430

    Act 213 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

14. Act to regulate nominations and election expenses - amend - destruction or removal of expense accounts

    Act 214 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

15. Act to regulate nominations and election expenses - amend - destruction or removal of expense accounts

    Act 215 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

16. Act to regulate the nomination and election of public officers - amend - names of candidates for Presidential electors shall no longer be printed on the ballot

    Act 216 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

17. Act regulating certain political parties - amend - method for determining the period of time

    Act 217 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

18. Act regulating certain political parties - amend - electors in boroughs, towns, and townships may at primaries declare their party preference and vote on age

    Act 218 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

19. Act to provide for personal registration of electors in cities of the third class of this Commonwealth - amend - limiting the time allowed electors to petition the county commissioners to have their names placed on the registers

    Act 219 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

20. Transfer Inheritance Tax Law - amend - taxation of stock of corporations incorporated in Pennsylvania and other states

    Act 220 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

21. Mental Health Act - amend - clarifying the provisions

    Act 221 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

22. Mental Health Act - amend - section three hundred nine

    Act 222 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

23. Act to provide for the incorporation and regulation of cooperative agricultural associations having capital stock - amend - additional powers on such corporations to frame by-laws; use of the reserve fund; removal of directors and officers of the associa

    Act 223 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

24. Act to regulate the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers - amend - defining commercial fertilizers; fixing the minimum percentage of constituents which such fertilizers may contain

    Act 224 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

25. Farm Animal Dealer or Broker License Law

    Act 225 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

26. Act for the protection of the public health in the manufacture and sale of carbonated beverages and still drinks - amend - regulations governing the cleansing of bottles used for such beverages

    Act 226 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

27. Act for the protection of the public health by regulating the possession, control, dealing in, giving away, delivery, dispensing, administering, prescribing, and use of certain drugs, and keeping records thereof - amend - making the violation of this act

    Act 227 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

28. Act to regulate the practice of pharmacy and sale of poisons and drugs - amend - regulating the sale of drugs, proprietary medicines, household drugs, biologicals, remedial agencies, and medicines

    Act 228 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

29. Making an appropriation out of the Liquid Fuels Tax Fund to the Board of Finance and Revenue for the purpose of refunds

    Act 229 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

30. Boxing and Wrestling Law - amend - issuing of permits for amateur boxing exhibitions and wrestling matches

    Act 230 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

31. Act relating to inns and hotels - amend - shortening the period during which hotelkeepers and innkeepers are required to retain liened baggage before disposal; extending to apartment hotels and apartment hotelkeepers

    Act 231 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

32. Providing for the observance of the birthday of William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania

    Act 232 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

33. Declaring and adopting the hemlock (Tsuga Canadensis Linnaeus) as the State tree of Pennsylvania

    Act 233 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

34. To select and adopt the ruffed grouse as the State game bird of Pennsylvania

    Act 234 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

35. Relating to retirement from the Pennsylvania National Guard

    Act 235 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

36. Act to regulate procedure where a defendant desires to have joined, as additional defendants, persons whom he alleges are liable over to him, or jointly or severally liable with him - amend - permitting joinder of persons alone liable; defining rights of

    Act 236 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

37. To repeal certain special acts pertaining to taxation in Bucks County

    Act 237 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

38. Act providing that where any court of quarter sessions of the peace or court of oyer and terminer in this Commonwealth has made or entered any order, sentence, decree or judgment for the payment of any moneys, in any matter within its jurisdiction, a copy

    Act 238 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

39. Second Class City Law - amend - appointment of a deputy mayor

    Act 239 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

40. Act relating to the collection of city, county, school, and poor taxes within the territorial limits of cities of the second class A - amend - requiring separate bonds to be given to and paid for by each municipal corporation; tax bills, annual audit of t

    Act 240 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

41. Act defining vocational education; providing for the establishment and regulation of vocational schools - amend - admission of pupils to vocational high schools of other States, and from other States to vocational high schools of this State

    Act 241 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

42. Providing for the grading, curbing, drainage, paving and/or macadamizing of highways, where center constitutes dividing line between municipalities

    Act 242 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

43. Conferring on the Department of Highways the right to enter upon private property adjacent to highways or bridges for the protection of highways and bridges by change of stream channels

    Act 243 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

44. Act authorizing the State Highway Department, the Public Service Commission, counties, cities, boroughs, and townships to purchase, or condemn by the right of eminent domain, free and unobstructed view over and across lands at highway, railroad, and

    Act 244 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

45. General Road Law - amend - assessment of damages for property appropriated for slopes

    Act 245 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

46. Act establishing certain public roads as State Highways - amend - routes 300, 330, 359, 361, 302, 319, 337, 348, 357, 358, and 367

    Act 246 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

47. Act making the proceedings of the conventions of the Departments of Pennsylvania of the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Spanish War Veterans a part of the public records of the State - amend - imposing the duty of printing such proceedings on

    Act 247 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

48. Providing for the award of drill and service medals and bars to officers and enlisted men of the Pennsylvania National Guard

    Act 248 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

49. Diseased Animal Condemnation Law

    Act 249 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

50. Providing for the settlement of capital stock tax in the cases of corporations, joint-stock associations, limited partnerships, and companies which own assets which are exempted or relieved from capital stock tax

    Act 250 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

51. Act regulating certain political parties - amend - changing the number of signers required on the nomination petitions of candidates for the office of magistrate in cities of the first class

    Act 251 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

52. Act providing for a more equitable method of assessing capital stock tax against corporations, limited partnerships, joint-stock associations, and companies - amend - restricting exemptions

    Act 252 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

53. Transfer Inheritance Tax Law - amend - appeals from appraisements shall specify the objections thereto

    Act 253 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

54. Transfer Inheritance Tax Law - amend - including notice in the title that taxes transfers made in contemplation of death; imposing upon banks, other institutions or depositories the duty of making reports

    Act 254 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

55. Motor Carriers Gross Receipts Tax Act

    Act 255 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

56. State Highway Department Law - amend - routes 46, 49, 50, 52, 55, 58, 63, 75, 91, 97, 102, 108, 114, 115, 120, 170, 171, 174, 188, 189, 255, 268, 283, 285, 4, 23, 30, 34, 45, 56, 60, 72, 78, 101, 104, 113, 119, 124, 195, 209, 213, 218, 247, 256, and 273

    Act 256 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

57. Act establishing certain public roads as State highways - amend - routes 556, 571, 581, 614, 641, 661, 681, 729, 545, 579, 618, 668, 670, and 695

    Act 257 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

58. Act establishing certain public roads as State highways - amend - routes 376, 402, 435, 451, 383, 391, 392, 403, 429, 433, 436, 457, 519, and 526

    Act 258 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

59. Act to establish as a State highway a section of public road in the counties of Allegheny and Washington - amend

    Act 259 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

60. Act establishing certain public roads as State highways - amend - route 620

    Act 260 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

61. Act establishing certain public roads as State highways - repeal - route 562 and 645

    Act 261 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

62. City State Highway Law

    Act 262 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

63. The Vehicle Code - amend - regulating the registration and titling of motor vehicles, trailers and semi-trailers, their operation on the highway, the licensing of operators, and the suspension of licenses; fees; powers and duties, and rights of political

    Act 263 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

64. The Tractor Code - amend - registration of tractors and trailers; their operation on the highway; licensing of operators; fees; powers and duties, and rights of political subdivisions of the Commonwealth, the Department of Highways, the Department of Reve

    Act 264 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

65. State Highway Department Law - amend - authorizing the Secretary of Highways to change plans of State highways on record by filing new plans

    Act 265 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

66. Act authorizing the Secretary of Highways to designate by letter, or to name, number, or combine State highways in such manner as will best accommodate and inform the traveling public using the highways of the Commonwealth, and facilitate the keeping of

    Act 266 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

67. To establish as a State highway a section of public road in the county of Bradford

    Act 267 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

68. Act establishing certain public roads as State highways - amend - route 396

    Act 268 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

69. Act to establish as State highways sections of public road in the county of Mercer - amend - route 320

    Act 269 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

70. Act establishing certain public roads as State highways - amend - route 571

    Act 270 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

71. State Highway Department Law - amend - Route 147

    Act 271 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

72. Act providing for the abatement of nuisances caused by the improper grading or defective paving or encroaching fences in alleys, in cities of the first class - amend - extending to driveways

    Act 272 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

73. Act making it unlawful for any architect or engineer, in the employ of the Commonwealth, or of any subdivision of the Commonwealth, and engaged in the preparation of plans, specifications or estimates, to bid on any public work - amend - removing the

    Act 273 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

74. Authorizing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and counties, cities, boroughs, incorporated towns, townships, school districts and poor districts to make contracts of life, health, accident, and pension policies for the benefit of employes thereof - enactme

    Act 274 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

75. Authorizing the publication of advertisements for bids for public works, supplies or equipment in certain publications and journals devoted to information about construction work

    Act 275 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

76. The Fish Law of 1925 - amend - prohibiting the purchase, sale, and exposing for sale of large and small mouth bass caught in waters without this Commonwealth and received in interstate commerce

    Act 276 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

77. The Aeronautics Act - amend - licensing and registration of airmen and aircraft when secured Federal aircraft and airmen's licenses; identified marks and registration plates on aircraft; classifying pilots; student pilots' permits; denial, suspension or r

    Act 277 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

78. Act providing for the establishment of a State Industrial Home for Women - amend - commitment to and imprisonment in such institution of women of more than twenty-four years of age

    Act 278 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

79. Indeterminate Sentence, Probation and Penitentiary Parole Law - amend - regulating the sentencing of and serving of sentences by persons while on parole

    Act 279 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

80. Making a convict whose minimum sentence exceeds one-half of the maximum sentence eligible to apply for release on parole when said convict has served or will have served one-half his maximum sentence

    Act 280 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

81. Public School Employes' Retirement Law - amend - regulating disability retirement

    Act 281 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

82. Public School Employes' Retirement Law - amend - extending the time for employes who separated from school service to return and be entitled to full credit for prior service

    Act 282 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

83. Act authorizing the Superintendent of Public Instruction to place in each public school of this Commonwealth one copy of Smull's Legislative Hand-book following each decennial census, and biennially one copy of the School Laws and Decisions - repeal

    Act 283 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

84. Further supplement to an act to authorize the erection of a poorhouse in the county of Luzerne - amend - increasing the amount which may be expended for out-door relief

    Act 284 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

85. Act relating to and regulating the solicitation of moneys and property for charitable, religious, benevolent, humane, and patriotic purposes - amend - removing exemptions

    Act 285 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

86. Conferring upon the Department of Welfare the power of fixing and establishing charges for services rendered by any State-owned medical and surgical hospital

    Act 286 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

87. Act 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 the control of the Pennsylvania Historical Commission - amend - the

    Act 287 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

88. Authorizing the Secretary of Property and Supplies to convey lands, in the County of Chester, to the Home for Destitute Colored Children in exchange for lands

    Act 288 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

89. Act to enable two or more boroughs that are contiguous or in close proximity to be united and to become one city of the third class - repeal

    Act 289 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

90. The Banking Act 1923 - amend - additional regulations for all advertisements, publications, and notices required to be made in newspapers

    Act 290 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

91. Prohibiting the investment of funds of building and loan associations in syndicated or equal lien loans where the same are divided between or among building and loan associations, individuals, or corporations

    Act 291 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

92. To enable city, county, poor, ward, school, borough, and township tax collectors, or either surety or sureties, to collect taxes, for the payment of which they have become personally liable without having collected the same, by the expiration of the autho

    Act 292 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

93. Making it the duty of counties of the first class, cities, incorporated towns, and poor districts to require entering into municipal contracts; contractor required to give bond for use of labor and material-men

    Act 293 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

94. Prescribing rights and remedies, and the procedure in connection with suits and recovery on bonds conditioned for the payment of material and labor furnished, supplied, or performed in the prosecution of any public work or improvement

    Act 294 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

95. Relating to proceedings where goods or chattels have been levied upon or seized by the sheriff, and claimed to belong to others than the defendant in the execution or process, and relieving the sheriff from liability thereof

    Act 295 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

96. Act relating to executions - amend - extending to cases where a receiver, a receiver in bankruptcy, or a trustee in bankruptcy shall be appointed after the distress

    Act 296 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

97. Authorizing and directing the Secretary of Property and Supplies to convey lands to the City of Harrisburg

    Act 297 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

98. Corporation Act of 1874 - amend - giving of notice of amendments to corporate charters

    Act 298 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

99. Public Bathing Law

    Act 299 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

100. Act to prohibit the payment of any occupation or poll tax assessed for State or county purposes of any elector, by any person other than the elector against whom such tax is assessed - amend - exemptions

     Act 300 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text