Pennsylvania Act 1995-5 — FIRST CLASS CITY HOME RULE ACT - AMEND LIMITATION ON POWERS

Act text

Session of 1995

No. 1995-5

HB 276

AN ACT

Amending the act of April 21, 1949 (P.L.665, No.155), entitled "An act to carry into effect section one of article fifteen of the Constitution, giving cities of the first class the right and power to frame, adopt and amend their own charters and to exercise the powers and authority of local self-government, and providing the procedure therefor; imposing certain restrictions, limitations and regulations; imposing duties upon city councils, city officers, county boards of elections, courts and the Secretary of the Commonwealth; and providing for the payment of certain expenses by such cities; and imposing penalties," further providing for limitations on the powers of cities of the first class.

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

Section 1. Section 18(c) of the act of April 21, 1949 (P.L.665, No.155), known as the First Class City Home Rule Act, is amended to read:

Section 18. Limitations.--No city shall exercise any powers or authority beyond the city limits except such as are conferred by an act of the General Assembly, and no city shall engage in any proprietary or private business except as authorized by the General Assembly. Notwithstanding the grant of powers contained in this act, no city shall exercise powers contrary to, or in limitation or enlargement of, powers granted by acts of the General Assembly which are--

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(c) Applicable to all the cities of the Commonwealth , including , but not limited to, those acts providing for the disability compensation of police officers and firefighters .

Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.

APPROVED--The 1st day of June, A. D. 1995.

THOMAS J. RIDGE