PENNSYLVANIA, September 29 - PRINTER'S NO. 599

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

524

Session of

2021

INTRODUCED BY YAW AND MARTIN, APRIL 14, 2021

REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, APRIL 14, 2021

AN ACT

Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes, in home rule and optional plan

government, further providing for submission of question for

election of government study commission and for limitation on

enactment of ordinance or filing of petition.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Sections 2911(d) and 2927(a) of Title 53 of the

Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes are amended to read:

§ 2911. Submission of question for election of government study

commission.

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(d) Duty of election board.--At the next general or

municipal [or primary] election occurring not less than the 13th

Tuesday after the filing of the ordinance or the petition with

the county board of elections, it shall cause the appropriate

question to be submitted to the electors as other questions are

submitted under the act of June 3, 1937 (P.L.1333, No.320),

known as the Pennsylvania Election Code.

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