Pennsylvania Code — 16
Browse 534 sections in division 16 of the Pennsylvania code. Each section page includes the full statutory text, official source links, and citation guidance.
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- § 101. Scope of title.
- § 102. Applicability.
- § 102.1. Definitions.
- § 103. Excluded provisions.
- § 104. Saving clause.
- § 105. Holding of office.
- § 106. Construction of references.
- § 107. Constitutional construction.
- § 108. Legislation according to class.
- § 301. Enumeration of counties.
- § 310. Counties divided into nine classes.
- § 311. Ascertainment, certification and effect of change of class.
- § 501. Petition to Commonwealth Court.
- § 502. Commonwealth Court designation of neutral court and appointment of commission.
- § 503. Compensation, assistants and expenses.
- § 504. Oath, organization and duties.
- § 505. Authority to fix undetermined county line.
- § 506. Report of boundary commission, approval by court and certification of line.
- § 1121. Short title and scope of subchapter.
- § 1122. Definitions.
- § 1123. Required security.
- § 1124. Official security and officers.
- § 1125. Other county officers and employees.
- § 1126. County officers and employees acting as agents.
- § 1127. Bonds or blanket bond as security coverage.
- § 1128. Insurance as security coverage.
- § 1129. Form of required security.
- § 1130. Amount of coverage.
- § 1131. Custody and filing of required security documents.
- § 1132. Payment of premiums and commissions on collections.
- § 1133. Other requirements, references and approvals.
- § 1301. Definitions.
- § 1302. Recording.
- § 1303. Confidentiality.
- § 2301. Authorization of vehicle rental tax by counties of the first class.
- § 7301. Salary of solicitor and costs.
- § 12101. Scope of part.
- § 12103. Proceedings for recovery of penalties.
- § 12104. Collection of tax and municipal claims by suit and limitations.
- § 12105. Publication of legal notices.
- § 12106. General powers.
- § 12107. Vesting of corporate power.
- § 12301. Elected officers.
- § 12302. Incompatible offices.
- § 12303. Oath of office.
- § 12304. Recorded commissions.
- § 12305. Location of offices, records and papers.
- § 12306. Open records.
- § 12307. Securing from predecessors.
- § 12308. Action by deputies.
- § 12309. Vacancies.
- § 12310. Information to heads of governmental departments.
- § 12311. Penalty.
- § 12313. Qualifications.
- § 12314. Mileage.
- § 12315. Security.
- § 12316. Solicitors to county officers other than county commissioners.
- § 12340. State associations.
- § 12341. Purpose and annual meetings.
- § 12342. Deputies and solicitors.
- § 12343. Expenses and time limits.
- § 12344. Other meeting expenses.
- § 12345. Annual assessments.
- § 12346. Associations and organizations concerned with governmental affairs.
- § 12350. Removal of county officers and appointees.
- § 12360. Meetings open to public.
- § 12501. Election and vacancies.
- § 12502. Organization.
- § 12503. Meetings.
- § 12504. Quorum and execution of official instruments.
- § 12505. Certified copies of proceedings.
- § 12506. Oaths.
- § 12507. Expenses.
- § 12508. Office supplies.
- § 12509. Ordinances and resolutions.
- § 12520. Chief clerk.
- § 12521. Duties and powers of chief clerk.
- § 12701. Election, term and seal.
- § 12702. Eligibility.
- § 12703. Deputy controller and clerks.
- § 12705. Establishment of office of controller in counties of sixth, seventh and eighth classes.
- § 12706. Appointment by Governor, duties of auditors and abolition of office of auditor.
- § 12707. Expenses.
- § 12901. Election and vacancies.
- § 12902. Eligibility.
- § 12903. Meetings and quorum.
- § 13101. County treasurer and eligibility.
- § 13105. Misapplication of money collected for specific purposes.
- § 13106. Deputy treasurer.
- § 13106.1. Second deputy treasurer.
- § 13301. Appointment and qualifications.
- § 13302. Duties.
- § 13303. Employees in certain counties.
- § 13304. Assistant county solicitors.
- § 13501. County engineer, appointment and term.
- § 13502. Duties.
- § 13701. Unfinished business of outgoing sheriff.
- § 13702. Deputy action authorized.
- § 13703. Chief deputy and petition.
- § 13704. Real estate deputies.
- § 13705. Deputies and clerks.
- § 13706. Deputy sheriff's qualifications.
- § 13707. False statements in deputy's affidavit.
- § 13708. Filed items and public records.
- § 13709. Public list of applicants for deputy sheriff.
- § 13710. Private services, gifts and payments prohibited.
- § 13711. Penalties.
- § 13712. Construction.
- § 13713. Chief deputy sheriff to act as sheriff in case of vacancy.
- § 13714. Sheriff to keep docket.
- § 13715. Not to exercise office until commission granted and recorded and penalty.
- § 13901. Applicability.
- § 13902. Definitions.
- § 13911. Deputies.
- § 13912. Duties regarding county morgues.
- § 13913. Removal of bodies to morgue.
- § 13914. Removal of body, burial and vehicle.
- § 13915. Unclaimed property and sales.
- § 13916. Private morgue.
- § 13917. Requests for examinations and reports.
- § 13918. Coroner's investigation.
- § 13919. Autopsy, inquest and records.
- § 13920. Child deaths.
- § 13921. Sudden death.
- § 13922. Prohibition on moving a body.
- § 13923. Release of coroner's jurisdiction.
- § 13924. Cooperation with district attorney.
- § 13925. Cooperation with other counties.
- § 13926. Certificate of cause of death.
- § 13927. Subpoena and attachment.
- § 13928. Jury.
- § 13929. Oaths.
- § 13930. Commitment to county prison.
- § 13931. Excluded individuals.
- § 13932. Vacancy.
- § 13933. Anatomical gifts.
- § 13934. Execution of office.
- § 13935. Records.
- § 13951. Disposition costs.
- § 13952. Fees for reports.
- § 14101. Election of prothonotary, clerk of courts, clerk of orphans' court, register of wills and recorder of deeds.
- § 14102. Office holders.
- § 14103. Separate judicial districts.
- § 14105. Appointment of first deputies.
- § 14112. Second deputy recorder.
- § 14113. Clerks of recorder to administer oaths.
- § 14301. District attorney, qualifications, eligibility and compensation.
- § 14302. Duties of district attorney and entry of nolle prosequi.
- § 14303. Expenses incurred by district attorney.
- § 14304. Filling of vacancies.
- § 14305. Misconduct of district attorney.
- § 14306. District attorney charged with crime.
- § 14307. Legal resources for district attorney.
- § 14308. Police radio in counties of the third class.
- § 14309. Prosecution by private counsel.
- § 14320. Assistant district attorneys.
- § 14321. Designation, powers and duties of first assistant.
- § 14324. Temporary court appointment in counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class.
- § 14325. Indictment and cost clerk in counties of the fourth class.
- § 14326. Stenographers and clerks.
- § 14340. Appointment, duties and compensation of county detectives.
- § 14341. Appointment of special detective with approval of court.
- § 14501. Salaries of county officers.
- § 14502. Insurance and other employee benefits.
- § 14701. Fees belonging to county.
- § 14702. System of accounts and fees paid to county treasurer.
- § 14703. Penalty for receiving gratuities or percentages.
- § 14704. False swearing to county accounts, bills or transcripts.
- § 14705. Officers to be paid salaries.
- § 14707. Monthly returns.
- § 14708. Payment of certain officers.
- § 14709. Salaries in lieu of fees.
- § 14710. Rights of action and remedies for collection of fees.
- § 14720. Salaries and compensation.
- § 14721. Fees.
- § 14722. Salary boards.
- § 14723. Number and compensation of officers, deputies, assistants, clerks and employees and revisions of salary schedules.
- § 14725. Procedure and action of salary board.
- § 14901. Functions of county commissioners.
- § 14901.1. Billing and collection of third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class county taxes.
- § 14901.2. Collection of tax on real property from rent paid to owner in county of the second class A.
- § 14902. Functions of controller.
- § 14903. Accounts of officers.
- § 14904. Custody of documents.
- § 14905. Financial records.
- § 14906. Investment of money.
- § 14920. Settlement of accounts, report to court of common pleas, publications and financial report.
- § 14920.1. Audit of additional accounts.
- § 14924.1. Audit of insurance and escrow accounts.
- § 14925. Power of subpoena and attachment.
- § 14926. Power to administer oaths.
- § 14927. Refusal to obey subpoena or submit to examination.
- § 14928. Witness fees.
- § 14929. Settlement of accounts on extraneous proof.
- § 14930. Filing reports.
- § 14931. Appeals from reports.
- § 14932. Form of issue on appeals.
- § 14933. Allowance of attorney fees.
- § 14950. Claims against county.
- § 14951. Procedure for approval.
- § 14952. Claims not approved by controller.
- § 14953. Reports to county commissioners.
- § 14954. Fees of witnesses and jurors.
- § 14960. Receipts and accounts of money due county.
- § 14962. Depositories.
- § 14970. Tax levies.
- § 14971. Additions and revisions to duplicates.
- § 14974. Temporary loans.
- § 14975. Transfer of certain money into general fund of county.
- § 14976. Supplemental appropriations, transfers of money and appropriation limits.
- § 14977. Banks authorized to receive taxes in counties of the second class A.
- § 14980. Fiscal year and preparation of proposed annual budget.
- § 14982. Adoption of budget, publication of proposed budget and notice of final action date.
- § 14982.1. Amended budget and notice.
- § 14982.2. Delivery of tax duplicates.
- § 14982.3. Amending budget, levy and tax rate, revising tax duplicates and filing.
- § 14983. Annual budget appropriations and tax rate.
- § 14984.1. Taking of money and property.
- § 14984.2. Capital reserve fund for anticipated capital expenditures.
- § 14984.3. Operating reserve fund.
- § 14985. Committee to prepare uniform forms.
- § 14990. Membership.
- § 14991. Management of sinking funds.
- § 14992. Bonds of county held by commission.
- § 14993. Pay off, cancellation, priority and sale of county bonds.
- § 14995. Investment of sinking fund money.
- § 15100. Contracting.
- § 15101. Commissioners sole contractors for county generally.
- § 15102. Contract procedures, terms and bonds and advertising for bids.
- § 15103. Evasion of advertising requirements.
- § 15105. Sales of personal property and surplus farm products.
- § 15106. Conflicts of interest prohibited.
- § 15107. Application of contract provisions.
- § 15107.1. Printing contracts.
- § 15107.2. Prohibited contract provisions.
- § 15328. County history.
- § 15329. Payment to historical societies.
- § 15330. Qualification of society.
- § 15331. Restoration and preservation of historic sites.
- § 15335. Appropriations for prevention of cruelty to animals.
- § 15336. Cooperative Extension, natural resources, 4-H youth, families, nutrition and community development.
- § 15337. Agricultural or horticultural societies.
- § 15338. Suppression of animal and plant disease.
- § 15339. County fair associations in counties of the third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth class.
- § 15343. Appropriations for radio broadcasting station.
- § 15344. Appropriations for police, fire and other public safety radio and telecommunications networks.
- § 15347. Prevention and control of floods.
- § 15348. Emergency appropriation to municipal corporations.
- § 15352. Establishment of fire training schools.
- § 15353. Appointment.
- § 15355. Drilling gas wells and laying gas lines.
- § 15356. Contracts for relocation, change or elevation of railroads.
- § 15357. County may assist municipalities.
- § 15371. Rewards for detection or apprehension of criminals.
- § 15375. Municipal waste processing and disposal in county facilities.
- § 15385. Appropriations to industrial development agencies by counties.
- § 15390. Appropriations for handling, storage and distribution of surplus foods.
- § 15395. Acquisition, repair and maintenance of historical property.
- § 15395.1. Contributions to museums of fine art or natural history.
- § 15396. Appropriations for legal aid services.
- § 15397. Improvement of operation and facilities.
- § 15398. Money for traffic control devices.
- § 15399. Appropriations for recreation and historic and museum projects.
- § 15501. Appropriation of money or land for National Guard Armories.
- § 15502. Appropriation for maintenance of National Guard.
- § 15503. Appropriation to rifle clubs in time of war.
- § 15508. Definitions.
- § 15509. Funeral expenses of deceased servicepersons.
- § 15510. Interment of spouses of deceased servicepersons.
- § 15511. Payment.
- § 15512. Flagholders for graves.
- § 15513. Memorial benefit.
- § 15514. Burial plots.
- § 15515. Care of graves and headstones.
- § 15516. Determining eligibility for interment benefits.
- § 15521. Appropriations to veterans' organizations for expenses of Memorial Day, Veterans' Day, Flag Day and Independence Day.
- § 15522. Flags to decorate graves.
- § 15523. Compilation of war records.
- § 15524. Director of veterans' affairs.
- § 15701. Health work.
- § 15730. Appropriations to hospitals, health clinics and homes.
- § 15732. Aid to municipal corporations for sewage purposes.
- § 15733. Aid to municipal corporations for water systems.
- § 15750. Elimination and abatement of larvae breeding places and liens.
- § 15751. Not to affect public water supply.
- § 15752. Appropriations.
- § 15760. Definitions.
- § 15761. County institution districts abolished.
- § 15762. Records.
- § 15763. Powers and duties.
- § 15764. Further powers and duties.
- § 15765. Referral by Department of Human Services.
- § 15766. Provision for burial.
- § 15768. Powers and duties of county commissioners relating to children.
- § 15769. Contributions for medical care.
- § 15770. Inspections by Department of Human Services.
- § 15771. Reports of individuals applying for treatment of disease.
- § 15772. Rules and regulations.
- § 15773. Providing services without charge prohibited.
- § 15774. Payments by county commissioners for assistance.