Pennsylvania Act 1963-484 — COMMUNITY COLLEGE ACT OF 1963

Act text

COMMUNITY COLLEGE ACT OF 1963
                 Act of Aug. 24, 1963, P.L. 1132, No. 484             Cl. 24
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the creation, establishment and operation of
        community colleges, granting certain powers to the State
        Board of Education, the Council of Higher Education and the
        Department of Public Instruction; authorizing school
        districts, county boards of school directors and
        municipalities to sponsor community colleges; authorizing
        school districts and municipalities to levy certain taxes;
        providing for reimbursements by the Commonwealth of certain
        costs and expenses, and making an appropriation.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 10 of Act 31 of 1985 provided that
            sections 2 through 14 of Act 484 are repealed. The
            repealed provisions are now contained in Article XIX-A of
            the act of March 10, 1949 (P.L.30, No.14), known as the
            Public School Code of 1949.

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

        Section 1.  Short Title.--This act shall be known as and may
     be cited as the "Community College Act of 1963."
        Section 15.  Appropriation.--For the purposes of this act,
     the sum of five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), or as much
     thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to the
     Department of Public Instruction; Provided, however, That not
     more than seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) of the funds
     herein appropriated may be expended by the Department of Public
     Instruction during the fiscal year July 1, 1963, to June 30,
     1963, for the administration of this act.
        Section 16.  Effective Date.--This act shall take effect
     immediately.
        Section 17.  Severability.--The provisions of this act are
     severable and, if any provision, phrase, clause or part hereof
     shall be held invalid or unconstitutional or inapplicable to any
     person or circumstances, such invalidity, unconstitutionality or
     inapplicability shall not affect or impair the remaining
     provisions of the act. It is hereby declared to be the
     legislative intent that this act would have been adopted if such
     invalid, unconstitutional or inapplicable provisions had not
     been included therein.