1 Pa.C.S. § 101
Short title
This act shall be known and may be cited as the "Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes."
Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Title 1 — GENERAL PROVISIONS
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1 Pa.C.S. § 102
Citation of Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes
The Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes may be cited by title and section number. Without prejudice to any other form of citation, a citation to any section of this act in the following form shall, except as provided in section 303 of this title (relating to cross references between provisions of the Consolidated Statut…
1 Pa.C.S. § 103
Effective date
This act shall take effect immediately.
1 Pa.C.S. § 301
Arrangement
(a) Titles and major subdivisions.--This act consists of titles subdivided into parts, articles, chapters and such other major subdivisions as may be required for clarity of expression and uniformity of style. (b) Chapters.--The principal subdivisions of a part, or of a title that is not divided into parts, of this act…
1 Pa.C.S. § 302
Section headings
Each section of this act shall be given a brief descriptive heading immediately preceding the body of the section. The headings of sections may be referred to as catchlines. In printing this act and its amendments the Director of the Legislative Reference Bureau shall substitute a symbol for the word "Section" precedin…
1 Pa.C.S. § 303
Cross references between provisions of the Consolidated Statutes
When reference is made in this act to a provision contained in any other section or sections of the same title such provision shall be identified without specifying the number of the title in which it appears. When reference is made in this act to a provision contained in any section or sections of this act appearing i…
1 Pa.C.S. § 304
References to other statutes
(a) Method and scope of reference.--Acts of the General Assembly shall be referred to generically in this act as statutes and, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise, such term when used in this act shall be deemed to be also a general reference to the provisions of this act. (b) Form of citation.--Without prej…
1 Pa.C.S. § 305
Re-use of section numbers
A section number shall not be re-used for a different subject, except in a bill to revise a part, article, chapter or other major subdivision of this act.
1 Pa.C.S. § 306
Bills to amend the Consolidated Statutes
(a) Conformity with requirements of chapter.--Bills to amend this act shall be drafted to conform with the structure of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, as provided in this chapter. (b) Bureau to insure conformity of bills.--The Legislative Reference Bureau shall insure that all bills to amend this act conform w…
1 Pa.C.S. § 501
Publication and distribution
(a) General rule.--The Legislative Reference Bureau may compile, edit, publish, print, supplement and revise or contract directly or through the Legislative Printing Clerk for the compilation, editing, publishing, printing, supplementation or revision of an official publication of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes…
1 Pa.C.S. § 502
Preparation and contents
(a) General rule.--In compiling and editing the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes and amendments thereto for publication, the bureau may: (1) Omit provisions of the amendatory acts which do not become a part of the structure of this act or which do not constitute part of the law as provided in section 1101(b) of this…
1 Pa.C.S. § 503
Official status of publication
The publication prepared by the bureau pursuant to this chapter shall constitute an official publication of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes and shall be legal evidence of the laws contained therein including the Constitution and laws incorporated therein pursuant to section 502(a)(4) of this title (relating to p…
1 Pa.C.S. § 901
Legislation to show changes
Bills or joint resolutions introduced in the General Assembly proposing amendments to the Constitution of Pennsylvania shall be printed in such a manner as to indicate the words to be added to or deleted from the Constitution.
1 Pa.C.S. § 902
Conduct of election
The manner in which proposed amendments to the Constitution of Pennsylvania shall be submitted to the qualified electors of the Commonwealth and the manner and effect of the certification of the returns of the election thereon shall, unless the General Assembly shall prescribe otherwise with respect to any particular p…
1 Pa.C.S. § 903
Governor to proclaim result of election
The officer of this Commonwealth to whom election returns are required by law to be certified shall, whenever a proposed amendment to the Constitution of Pennsylvania has been on the ballot at any election, certify the result of the election thereon to the Governor immediately upon receiving the official returns from a…
1 Pa.C.S. § 904
Governor to proclaim corrected numbering
Whenever an amendment of an article or of a section of the Constitution of Pennsylvania is adopted without specifying an article or section number, or whenever any amendment is adopted bearing a number which conflicts with the number of another article or section of the Constitution, the Governor may by proclamation sp…
1 Pa.C.S. § 905
Section headings
The Director of the Legislative Reference Bureau, with the approval of the Department of Justice, shall prepare and promulgate an appropriate heading for any section of the Constitution of Pennsylvania which was heretofore or may hereafter be adopted without a section heading. Any section heading promulgated pursuant t…
1 Pa.C.S. § 906
Short titles of Constitutions of 1874 and 1968
(a) Constitution of 1874.--The Constitution of Pennsylvania, as adopted by referendum of December 16, 1873, shall be known and may be cited as the "Constitution of 1874." (b) Constitution of 1968.--The Constitution of Pennsylvania, as amended by referenda of May 17, 1966, November 8, 1966, May 16, 1967 and April 23, 19…
1 Pa.C.S. § 1101
Enacting clause and unofficial provisions
(a) Style and position of enacting clause.--All statutes shall begin in the following style: "The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:". Such enacting clause shall be placed immediately after the preamble or the table of contents of the statute, or if there be neither preamble…
1 Pa.C.S. § 1102
Publication of notice of application for local or special legislation
(a) General rule.--No local or special bill to enact a local or special statute shall be passed by the General Assembly, unless notice of the intention to apply therefor shall be published, once a week for four successive weeks, in not less than two newspapers of general circulation, and also in the legal journal, if a…
1 Pa.C.S. § 1103
Preparation of statutes for printing
The Director of the Legislative Reference Bureau shall, as soon as any bill becomes a law, prepare the same for printing, cause the same to be printed immediately, and collate with and correct the proof sheets by the original rolls. He shall also have the statutes printed and indexed in book form as the Laws of Pennsyl…
1 Pa.C.S. § 1104
Printing of amendatory statutes
(a) General rule.--The Director of the Legislative Reference Bureau shall, in printing amendatory statutes, cause to be printed the section or part of the statute only as reenacted. Except as provided in subsection (b) of this section, in the section or part of the law reenacted, the Director shall cause to be printed…
1 Pa.C.S. § 1105
Editing statutes for printing
(a) Correction of errors.--Where any statute shall have been finally enacted and it shall be ascertained that such statute is technically defective in form, or contains misspelled words or typographical errors, or the plural or singular number, or the past, present or future tense appears where another should be used,…
1 Pa.C.S. § 1106
Prothonotaries to keep files of advance copies of statutes
The prothonotaries of the several counties shall file and keep in their offices, in such manner that they shall be accessible to the public during the office hours of the prothonotaries, advance copies of the statutes enacted at each session of the General Assembly, as such advance copies are furnished to them in accor…
1 Pa.C.S. § 1501
Short title of part
This part shall be known and may be cited as the "Statutory Construction Act of 1972."
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