Every law Pennsylvania has passed

1,819 laws of the 1930s

Constitution of 1874

1. The Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - penalties by the Insurance Commissioner; kinds of insurance which are exempted from provisions relating to health and accident insurance; forbidding discrimination; issuing of insurance covering loss occasioned

   Act 301 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

2. The Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - merger of domestic and foreign fire and marine insurance companies and/or casualty and/or surety companies

   Act 302 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

3. Regulating the salaries of district attorneys in counties of the seventh and eighth classes

   Act 303 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

4. Act to regulate the salaries of tipstaves in the courts of common pleas, oyer and terminer and general jail delivery, quarter sessions of the peace, and orphans' courts, in counties of the second class - amend - fixing of such salaries by judges

   Act 304 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

5. Act to regulate and determine what weight of anthracite coal shall make a ton in deliveries by retail coal dealers - amend - reducing the weight of anthracite coal making a ton

   Act 305 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

6. Providing for the relocation and change of width, grades, and lines of State highways in boroughs by the Secretary of Highways

   Act 306 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

7. Second Class City Law - amend - authorizing the mayor, city controller, and council to make emergency loans

   Act 307 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

8. Restricting the sale of goods, wares and merchandise prepared and manufactured without this Commonwealth by convicts and prisoners

   Act 308 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

9. To prohibit the employment in any factory or cannery, or in berry, fruit and vegetables raising and harvesting, in this Commonwealth, of any child under 16 years of age, residing in another state, during the time when the laws of the state of child's resi

   Act 309 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

10. Defining the rights of persons accused of contempt of court arising out of violation of injunctions

    Act 310 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

11. Defining labor disputes; and prescribing the procedure by which injunctions may be granted in such disputes

    Act 311 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

12. Fixing the qualifications of deputy sheriffs in this Commonwealth

    Act 312 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

13. To ratify, confirm, and validate, as debts of the municipality, bonds and obligations issued by municipal corporations for the payment of the cost of a public improvement which were to rest alone for their security and payment upon assessments for benefit

    Act 313 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

14. Validating the action of the salary boards in counties of the third class, in providing additional assistants to the district attorneys

    Act 314 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

15. Validating the action of the salary board of any county of the third class of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania when it has authorized the district attorney to appoint a chief county detective and assistant county detectives

    Act 315 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

16. To establish a separate orphans' court in and for the county of Lehigh

    Act 316 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

17. The Third Class City Law

    Act 317 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

18. Act authorizing cities of the third class to surrender their charter and be constituted a borough - repeal

    Act 318 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

19. Declaring buildings and parts of buildings used for purposes of fornication, lewdness, assignation, and prostitution to be nuisances

    Act 319 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

20. To validate certain obligations of townships of the second class issued for money borrowed or for work done or materials furnished

    Act 320 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

21. Authorizing persons, co-partnerships, associations, and corporations, who have furnished material or supplied or performed labor in connection with any public work or improvement, to intervene in or institute actions on certain bonds given to the

    Act 321 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

22. Act to permit the use of voting machines for recording and computing the vote at all elections in any county, city, borough or township of the Commonwealth - amend - defining boroughs; polling places; requirement of voting machines

    Act 322 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

23. Authorizing the boards of prison inspectors, in counties of the second class of this Commonwealth, to appoint jail chaplains

    Act 323 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

24. For the acceptance of a site from the University of Pittsburgh, and for surveys and the preparation of preliminary plans and estimates for a Western State Psychiatric Hospital

    Act 324 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

25. Recognizing, and for the support of the American Legislators' Association, the Interstate Legislative Reference Bureau

    Act 325 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

26. Authorizing the Department of Highways to pay property damages heretofore occasioned as a result of the erection of garage and storage sheds

    Act 326 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

27. Providing for the compilation, and printing and binding of the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania relative to soldiers, sailors, marines, and veteran organizations

    Act 327 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

28. Authorizing the Department of Forests and Waters to cooperate with and to receive contributions from the Federal Government for forestry purposes

    Act 328 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

29. Providing aid by the Commonwealth to free public non-sectarian county libraries

    Act 329 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

30. Providing for the acquisition by the Commonwealth of property in Fayette County, for the establishment of Fort Necessity Park

    Act 330 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

31. The First Class Township Law

    Act 331 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

32. Delaware River Joint Toll Bridge Compact

    Act 332 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

33. Limiting the liability of counties of the sixth class for the cost of autopsies in coroners' cases

    Act 333 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

34. Act making it a misdemeanor for any person to make, utter, circulate, or transmit false or derogatory statements affecting the solvency or financial standing of any bank, banking house, banking company, trust company, surety company, guarantee company,

    Act 334 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

35. The Insurance Company Law of 1921 - amend - group life insurance; exempting policies of group life insurance and the proceeds thereof from execution

    Act 335 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

36. Prohibiting the use of counterfeit or spurious coins in automatic instruments or machines

    Act 336 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

37. Act concerning townships - amend - authorizing townships to lend or lease road machinery to, and to contract to build and maintain driveways on lands of, school districts

    Act 337 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

38. To authorize any corporation of this Commonwealth, created by virtue of any special act of Assembly, to segregate its railroad lines and franchises by the sale and conveyance thereof to any duly organized railroad corporation of this Commonwealth which ow

    Act 338 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

39. Authorizing the rearrangement and relocation of the transmission and distribution lines and the location of a switching station of the West Penn Power Company on lands of the Commonwealth under the control of the Board of Trustees of Western State

    Act 339 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

40. Establishing certain State-aid highways and concrete township reward roads as State highways

    Act 340 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

41. Water Obstructions Law - amend - discontinuing the necessity of securing permits for the erection of certain dams

    Act 341 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

42. Act to enable railroad, canal and slack-water navigation companies to straighten, widen, deepen and otherwise improve their lines and the bridges, aqueducts, piers and structures thereof - amend - authorizing the acquisition of rights in and to lands for

    Act 342 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

43. Act relating to the descent and distribution of the real and personal property of persons dying intestate - amend - conferring jurisdiction on the orphans' court of the county wherein real property of any intestate domiciled without the Commonwealth at th

    Act 343 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

44. Authorizing the Pennsylvania Historical Commission to acquire property, whereon was the John Brown farm and tannery in Crawford County, from the John Brown Memorial Association

    Act 344 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

45. Making an appropriation to a commission to be used and expended for and toward the celebration of the Chicago Centennial Anniversary

    Act 345 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

46. Making an appropriation to the Department of Labor and Industry for the purpose of conducting an experimental employment agency, in the city of Philadelphia, through a State Employment Commission

    Act 346 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

47. Supplement to an act, entitled 'An act to provide for the better government of cities of the first class in this Commonwealth - amend - authorizing such cities to provide, by ordinance, for the leasing of wharves, docks, piers, bulk-heads, slips, basins,

    Act 347 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

48. Third Class County Assessment Board Law

    Act 348 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

49. Orphans' Court Act of 1917 - amend - extending the jurisdiction of the orphans' court to trusts inter vivos and life insurance trusts

    Act 349 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

50. Providing for the care, protection, and maintenance of the brig Niagara, Commodore Perry's Flagship at the Battle of Lake Erie; creating a commission to be The Flagship Niagara Commission

    Act 350 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

51. Authorizing the Department of Property and Supplies to acquire the site of Fort Augusta, at Sunbury, to be turned over to the Pennsylvania Historical Commission for management

    Act 351 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

52. Relieving canal corporations, owning any canals or other artificial waterways constructed by the Commonwealth as parts of its public works, from the obligation to maintain the same for transportation purposes

    Act 352 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

53. State Highway Department Law - amend - recording of plans in the office of the Department of Highways; payment of damages for land taken for future construction; duty of the Department of Highways to require an additional bond conditioned for the payment

    Act 353 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

54. Authorizing any street railway company or any motor power company of this Commonwealth owning all of the capital stock of any company having power to transport persons in common carriage by motor vehicle, incorporated under the law of this Commonwealth,

    Act 354 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

55. Authorizing cities of the first class to negotiate emergency loans during the present calendar year

    Act 355 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

56. Act establishing certain public roads as State highways - amend - route 708

    Act 356 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

57. Authorizing the appointment of a commission to study, investigate, and report upon the taxation of forest and mineral lands, and the distribution and application of such tax - joint resolution

    Act 357 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

58. Further supplement to the Tax Act - amend - excepting domestic life insurance companies

    Act 358 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

59. Real Estate Brokers License Act of 1929 - amend - qualifications of applicants for licensure; repealing the expiration date of licenses; annual renewal of licenses; enumerating the reasons for which licenses may be revoked or suspended; limiting the evide

    Act 359 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

60. Making an appropriation to the Pennsylvania Commission for the Celebration of the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Birth of George Washington

    Act 360 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

61. To apportion the State into congressional districts

    Act 361 of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

62. Appropriation Laws - 15 A (General Appropriation Act)

    Appropriation Act of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

63. Concurrent Resolutions

    Resolution of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

64. Concurrent Resolutions

    Resolution of 1931 · 1931 · Original text

65. To provide for the expenses of the extraordinary session of the Legislature, 1931

    Act Act 0001- E of 1931 (Special Session 1) · 1931 · Original text

66. Act making an appropriation to the Department of Property and Supplies for the acquisition of land and buildings for the Commonwealth, and the erection and construction of new buildings and additions, alterations or improvement - amend - appropriation ite

    Act Act 0003-E of 1931 (Special Session 1) · 1931 · Original text

67. General Appropriation Act of 1931 - amend - additional appropriations to the Department of Military Affairs and to the Department of Welfare

    Act Act 0004-E of 1931 (Special Session 1) · 1931 · Original text

68. Supplement to the Act, Pymatuning Swamp Reservoir Project Law - amend - clearing site; additional lands

    Act Act-0002-E of 1931 (Special Session 1) · 1931 · Original text

69. Act authorizing cities of the first class to negotiate emergency loans during the present calendar year - amend - extending the period of the repayment of such loans

    Act act 0005-E of 1931 (Special Session 1) · 1931 · Original text

70. Act authorizing cities of the first class to negotiate emergency loans for unemployment relief during the present calendar year - amend - extending the period of the repayment of such loans for unemployment relief

    Act act 0006-E of 1931 (Special Session 1) · 1931 · Original text

71. Making an appropriation under the police power and as a governmental duty to the Department of Welfare for State aid to political subdivisions charged by law with the care of the poor

    Act act 0007-E of 1931 (Special Session 1) · 1931 · Original text

72. Act relating to delinquent taxes on seated lands - amend - adjournment and readjourment of sales of seated lands for delinquent taxes, and authorizing the county treasurer to adjourn such sales for periods not exceeding one year during periods of economic

    Act act 0008 -E of 1931 (Special Session 1) · 1931 · Original text

73. General Appropriation Act of 1931 - amend - appropriation items

    Act act 0009-E of 1931 (Special Session 1) · 1931 · Original text

74. Concurrent Resolutions

    Resolution of 1931 (Special Session 1) · 1931 · Original text

75. Preliminary Pages

    Act prelv1 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

76. Authorizing and directing the State Treasurer to transfer from the Motor License Fund to the General Fund the unpaid balance of moneys in the Motor License Fund transferred from the General Fund

    Act 1 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

77. Act providing for the payment of the costs incurred in the trial of convicts and prisoners escaping, or attempting to escape, from the several penitentiaries and reformatories of

    Act 2 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

78. Relating to constables' returns to the court of quarter sessions

    Act 3 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

79. To enable persons, associations, partnerships and corporations engaged in farming, and raising, breeding, fattening and marketing livestock, to borrow money and secure the

    Act 4 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

80. Validating, ratifying and confirming acts done under general borough laws by boroughs incorporated under local law

    Act 5 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

81. Relating to banks, trust companies, savings banks and other banking institutions; providing for the protection of depositors therein

    Act 6 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

82. Validating certain deeds and conveyances made by trustees without setting forth their authority to convey

    Act 7 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

83. Ratifying and confirming sales of real estate of feeble-minded persons, where the orphans' court of the proper county decreed or approved the sales of the real estate of such

    Act 8 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

84. Act requiring retail dealers in liquid fuels to state the rate of the liquid fuels tax, separately from the price of such liquid fuels - amend - requiring dealers to state on price

    Act 9 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

85. Authorizing the Department of Highways to arrange with the Reconstruction Finance Corporation for advancement of funds to finance the construction of toll bridges -

    Act 10 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

86. Fixing the salary of sheriffs in counties of the seventh class; payment for the care and maintenance of prisoners; deputies and their compensation

    Act 11 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

87. The General County Law - amend - definition of " deceased service men"

    Act 12 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

88. Authorizing townships of the first class to fund floating indebtedness, orders or indebtedness of any previous year and now due or hereafter to become due, by the issuance

    Act 13 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

89. o authorize boroughs and townships of the first class to sue out writs of scire facias on certain municipal claims, where more than five years have elapsed since said claims

    Act 14 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

90. Local Delinquent Tax Return Law - amend - when the county commissioners do purchase such lands the deeds thereto shall be acknowledged in the court of common pleas

    Act 15 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

91. Act to regulate the manufacture and sale of commercial fertilizers - amend - standards for commercial fertilizers

    Act 16 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

92. Act regulating the sale of concentrated commercial feeding-stuffs - amend - defining commercial feeding-stuffs; annual and other registration fees

    Act 17 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

93. Act to provide for the registration and enrollment of the voters of the State according to their respective party preferences - amend - eliminating one of the days required of

    Act 18 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

94. To repeal certain acts requiring assessors and registry assessors to attend at the places of holding elections

    Act 19 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

95. Intangible Personal Property Tax Law - amend - excluding interesting-bearing accounts in any bank or banking institutions, saving institution, or trust company from the provisions thereof

    Act 19 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

96. Empowering counties, cities, boroughs, towns and townships to borrow money from the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to finance projects

    Act 20 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

97. To authorize the Department of Highways and the county commissioners to occupy and relocate rights of way of public service companies

    Act 21 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

98. Lapsing all unobligated balances of appropriations for township reward heretofore made from the Motor License Fund

    Act 22 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

99. Act concerning townships - amend - authorizing townships to contract with other municipalities for fire protection

    Act 23 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text

100. equiring the board of county commissioners of counties of the second class to fix the compensation of fire marshals; and to provide for their retirement

     Act 24 of 1933 · 1933 · Original text