Pennsylvania Act 1931-328 — DEPARTMENT OF FOREST AND WATERS TO RECEIVE FEDERAL FUNDS

Act text

DEPARTMENT OF FOREST AND WATERS TO RECEIVE FEDERAL FUNDS
                 Act of Jun. 23, 1931, P.L. 1202, No. 328             Cl. 32
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing the Department of Forests and Waters to cooperate
        with and to receive contributions from the Federal Government
        for forestry purposes; and providing for the use of such
        contributions.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 302(h) of Act 18 of 1995, which
            created the Department of Conservation and Natural
            Resources and renamed the Department of Environmental
            Resources as the Department of Environmental Protection,
            provided that the Department of Conservation and Natural
            Resources shall exercise the powers and duties conferred
            upon the Department of Forests and Waters by Act 328 of
            1931.
        Section 1.  Forest protection; Department of Forest and
     Waters authorized to enter into agreements with United States
        The Department of Forests and Waters is hereby empowered and
     authorized to cooperate and enter into cooperative agreements
     with, and to receive contributions from, the United States
     government for the protection from fire, or other casualty, the
     development and the production of forests and forest producing
     lands. All contributions received hereunder from the United
     States government shall be paid into the State Treasury, through
     the Department of Revenue, and credited to the biennial
     appropriations to the Department of Forests and Waters for the
     same purposes for which the contributions were made. 1931, June
     23, P.L. 1202, No. 328, Sec. 1.