PENNSYLVANIA, March 28 - PRINTER'S NO. 1472

THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA

SENATE BILL

No.

1134

Session of

2024

INTRODUCED BY BROWN, PENNYCUICK, KEARNEY, J. WARD, VOGEL, CULVER

AND BROOKS, MARCH 28, 2024

REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARCH 28, 2024

AN ACT

Amending Title 8 (Boroughs and Incorporated Towns) of the

Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in taxation and finance,

further providing for tax levy.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania

hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 1302(a)(9) of Title 8 of the Pennsylvania

Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:

§ 1302. Tax levy.

(a) Authority.--The council of the borough shall have power,

by resolution for taxes levied at the same rate as or a rate

lower than the previous fiscal year, and by ordinance if the tax

rate increases from the previous fiscal year, to levy and

collect annually a tax not exceeding 30 mills for general

borough purposes, unless the council by majority action, upon

due cause shown by resolution, petitions the court of common

pleas, in which case the court may order a rate of not more than

five mills additional to be levied and in addition any of the

following taxes:

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