Pennsylvania Act 1935-22 — VALIDATING PAYMENTS BY THIRD CLASS CITIES

Act text

VALIDATING PAYMENTS BY THIRD CLASS CITIES
                  Act of Apr. 18, 1935, P.L. 45, No. 22               Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     To validate and confirm certain contracts, expenditures or
        payments heretofore made, ratified or approved by councils of
        cities of the third class, and to direct payments thereunder
        by the fiscal officers of such cities in certain cases.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That, except as in this act
     otherwise expressly provided, every contract for personal
     services and for the payment of compensation therefor and every
     expenditure or payment heretofore made by any officer of a city
     of the third class, and ratified or approved by the council of
     such city is hereby confirmed and declared valid and binding on
     the respective city of the third class, and where payment has
     not already been made, the payment of such compensation by the
     fiscal officers of such city of the third class is hereby
     directed and made mandatory, and no member of council or any
     fiscal officer of such city of the third class shall be liable
     to surcharge or to prosecution for any crime or misdemeanor for
     or on account of any such contract, expenditure or payment, or
     for voting in favor of the authorization, ratification or
     approval of the same, notwithstanding the failure to comply with
     the requirements of section nine hundred and two of the act,
     approved the twenty-third day of June, one thousand nine hundred
     and thirty-one (Pamphlet Laws, nine hundred thirty-two),
     commonly called "The Third Class City Law"; that council shall
     prescribe by ordinance the number, duties, and compensation of
     the officers and employes of the city, and that no payment of
     compensation shall be made from the city treasury, or be in
     anywise authorized to any person, except an officer or employe
     elected or appointed in pursuance of law.
        The provisions of this act do not apply to such contracts or
     payments where it is found either that such contracts,
     expenditures or payments have been made, ratified or approved
     fraudulently, or with intent or conspiracy to defraud, or that
     the city of the third class shall have suffered pecuniary loss
     as a result thereof.
        Section 2.  The provisions of this act shall become effective
     immediately upon its final enactment.