Pennsylvania Act 1939-133 — REAL ESTATE AGENT LAW, SUPPLEMENTING

Act text

A SUPPLEMENT

To the act, approved the first day of May, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-nine (Pamphlet Laws, one thousand two hundred sixteen), entitled "An act to define real estate brokers and real estate salesmen; and providing for the licensing, regulation, and supervision of resident and nonresident real estate brokers and real estate salesmen and their business," by excluding certain persons from certain provisions of said act.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. All justices of the peace who are engaged in the real estate business on the effective date of this supplement, may continue in such business after the expiration of their term of office provided they shall meet all of the prerequisites of applicants for such licenses, except that they shall not be required to have served in the employ of a duly licensed real estate broker or brokers as a duly licensed real estate salesman for a period of two years. All justices of the peace shall continue to be exempt during their term of office from the provision of the act to which this is a supplement.

Compiler's Note: Section 28 of Act 207 of 2004 provided that any and all references in any other law to a "district justice" or "justice of the peace" shall be deemed to be references to a magisterial district judge.

Section 2. Persons who are aldermen upon the effective date of this supplement, shall be exempt from the provisions of the act to which this is a supplement, and such persons, if engaged in the real estate business during their term of office, may continue is such business upon the expiration of their term of office providing they shall meet all of the prerequisites of applicants for such licenses, except they shall not be required to have served in the employ of a duly licensed real estate broker or brokers as a duly licensed real estate salesman for a period of two years.