Pennsylvania Act 1919-180 — DETECTIVE PROVIDED FOR IN COUNTIES HAVING A POPULATION OF OVER ONE MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND INHABITANTS

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DETECTIVE PROVIDED FOR IN COUNTIES HAVING A POPULATION OF OVER ONE
                MILLION FIVE HUNDRED THOUSAND INHABITANTS
                  Act of Jun. 3, 1919, P.L. 369, No. 180              Cl. 16
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the appointment by the district attorney, in
        counties having a population of over one million five hundred
        thousand inhabitants, of a chief county detective, an
        assistant chief county detective, and special county
        detectives; defining their duties; defining their authority;
        fixing their salaries, and authorizing the payment of the
        same, together with the necessary traveling expenses, by the
        county.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That in each and every county
     of the first class of this Commonwealth, the district attorney
     may appoint a chief county detective, an assistant chief county
     detective, and special county detectives not exceeding twenty in
     number, whose duties it shall be to investigate and make report
     to the district attorney as to the conduct in office of
     magistrates, constables, deputy constables, and other officers
     connected with the administration of criminal justice; to make
     such investigation and endeavor to obtain such evidence as may
     be required by the district attorney in any criminal case; and
     perform such other duties as the district attorney may direct.
     Said detectives shall be general police officers, and shall have
     all powers now conferred on constables by existing laws of this
     Commonwealth so far as they relate to crimes or criminal
     procedure.
        (1 amended Apr. 29, 1925, P.L.352, No.205)
        Section 2.  The said chief county detective shall receive a
     salary of six thousand five hundred ($6,500) dollars per annum,
     the said assistant chief county detective shall receive a salary
     of three thousand five hundred ($3,500) dollars per annum, and
     ten of the special county detectives shall receive a salary of
     two thousand five hundred ($2,500) per annum each, and ten of
     the special county detectives shall receive a salary of two
     thousand three hundred ($2,300) dollars per annum each, together
     with all necessary traveling expenses; which said salary and
     expenses, having been verified by affidavit of the chief county
     detective, assistant chief county detective, or special county
     detective, incurring the same, and approved by the district
     attorney, shall be paid out of the treasury of the county on a
     certificate issued by the district attorney, directed to the
     controller of the county, who shall order warrants for said
     amounts according to law.  In the event of the appointment of a
     less number of special county detectives than twenty, the
     district attorney shall have the power to determine in which
     class, as to salaries, the appointee or appointees shall be
     placed.
        (2 amended June 9, 1941, P.L.97, No.50)