Pennsylvania Act 1999-17 — SECOND CLASS TOWNSHIP CODE, THE - AUDITOR'S COMPENSATION

Act text

Session of 1999

No. 1999-17

HB 157

AN ACT

Amending the act of May 1, 1933 (P.L.103, No.69), entitled, as reenacted and amended, "An act concerning townships of the second class; and amending, revising, consolidating and changing the law relating thereto," further providing for auditor's compensation.

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

Section 1. Section 902 of the act of May 1, 1933 (P.L.103, No.69), known as The Second Class Township Code, reenacted and amended November 9, 1995 (P.L.350, No.60), is amended to read:

Section 902. Auditor's Compensation.--(a) Each auditor shall receive [seven dollars ($7)] ten dollars ($10) for each hour necessarily employed in the duties of the office upon presentation to the board of supervisors of an itemized listing of the dates, times, places and hours worked to perform the audit. No auditor in a township having a population of ten thousand or less is entitled to receive more than [seven hundred dollars ($700)] one thousand dollars ($1,000) for completing the annual audit, settlement and adjustment. No auditor in a township having a population in excess of ten thousand is entitled to receive more than [fourteen hundred dollars ($1,400)] two thousand dollars ($2,000) for completing the annual audit, settlement and adjustment.

(b) In addition to the time actually used by the board of auditors to complete the audit, settlement and adjustment, each auditor may be compensated at the rate of [seven dollars ($7)] ten dollars ($10) each hour for not more than fifty hours to audit the accounts of any public official who handles public funds when a vacancy occurs in the office of the public official.

(c) Each auditor shall be reimbursed for travel costs incurred in the performance of the auditing duties at the rate established by the board of supervisors under the act of July 20, 1979 (P.L.156, No.51), referred to as the Uniform Mileage Fee Law, and for other expenses, including postage, notary fees or publication costs, incurred during the audit.

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

APPROVED--The 22nd day of June, A. D. 1999.

THOMAS J. RIDGE