Pennsylvania Act 1941-78 — ARBOR DAY CONSERVATION WEEK AND BIRD DAY

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ARBOR DAY CONSERVATION WEEK AND BIRD DAY
                  Act of Jun. 19, 1941, P.L. 143, No. 78              Cl. 38
                                  AN ACT

     Designating a certain day of each year as Arbor Day; providing
        that the week in which the last Friday of April falls be
        proclaimed as The Dr. J. T. Rothrock Memorial Conservation
        Week, and directing suitable observance of Arbor Day. (Title
        amended April 11, 1961, P.L.73, No.29)

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

        Section 1. The Governor each year shall appoint an
     appropriate day to be designated as Arbor Day and shall
     recommend by proclamation to the people that such day be
     suitably observed by widespread planting of trees and shrubs and
     by group and community programs stressing the value and
     importance of trees and forests.
        (1 amended April 11, 1961, P.L.73, No.29)
        Section 2. The day designated as Arbor Day shall be the last
     Friday in April.
        (2 amended April 11, 1961, P.L.73, No.29)
        Section 3. The week in which the last Friday of April in any
     year falls shall be designated by the Governor, also by
     proclamation, as The Dr. J. T. Rothrock Memorial Conservation
     Week, during which week the citizens shall be encouraged to
     consider through suitable activities the broader subject of the
     conservation of all of the natural resources from which the
     wealth of the Commonwealth is derived.
        (3 amended April 11, 1961, P.L.73, No.29)
        Section 4. (Repealed March 10, 1949, P.L.30, No.14)
        Section 5. All acts and parts of acts inconsistent with the
     provisions of this act are hereby repealed.
        Section 6. The provisions of this act shall become effective
     immediately upon final enactment.