71 Pa. Stat. § 2

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-111
Section 2 - Certain existing departments, boards, commissions, and offices abolished

To accomplish the purposes of this act, all places and positions, except those specifically retained by this act, in or under the executive and administrative bureaus, divisions, boards, commissions, offices and agencies of the State Government, and in or under the several executive and administrative departments, except the Department of the Auditor General and the State Treasurer, are hereby abolished; and the following departments, bureaus, divisions, boards, commissions, offices, and agencies of the State Government, as now established by law, are hereby abolished, namely: Deputy Secretary of the Commonwealth, the Executive, Corporation, Commission, Election and Legislative, Requisition and Warrant, and Registration Bureaus in the Department of the Secretary of the Commonwealth; First Deputy Attorney General and all Deputy Attorneys General; Deputy Superintendent of State Police, Bureau of Fire Protection, Chief of the Bureau of Fire Protection; Bureaus of Vocational Education and of Professional Education in the Department of Public Instruction; the State Library and Museum, State Librarian, and Director of the Museum, Deputy State Librarian, and Director of the Museum, General Library, Law Library, Public Records, Library Extension, and Museum Divisions, in the State Library and Museum; the Bureaus of Administration, of Accounts, of Records, and of Supplies in the Adjutant General's Department; State Military Board; Soldiers' Bonus Commission; State Military Cemetery Commission; Commission to make an Investigation of the Battlefields of France and Belgium; Deputy Secretary of Agriculture, Economic Zoologist, Dairy and Food Commissioner, State Veterinarian, Bureaus of Animal Industry, of Plant Industry, of Markets, of Foods, of Chemistry, and of Statistics, in the Department of Agriculture; State Livestock Sanitary Board; State Forest Commission; Bureau of Forest Protection; Bureau of Topographic and Geological Survey; Bureau of Statistics and Information, Land Office Bureau, Bureau of Railroads, Bureau of Taxes and Assessments, Bureau of Standards, and Bureau of Municipalities, in the Department of Internal Affairs; State Geologist; Fort Washington Park Commission; Snyder-Middleswarth Park Commission; Wyoming Valley Memorial Park Commission; Chief Inspector of the Department of Labor and Industry; Bureaus of Inspection, of Mediation and Arbitration, of Rehabilitation, of Workmen's Compensation, and of Employment, in the Department of Labor and Industry; Division of Industrial Hygiene and Engineering, Industrial Board; manager, assistant manager, actuary, and counsel for the State Workmen's Insurance Board; Bureaus of Housing, of Vital Statistics, and the Advisory Board, in the Department of Health; Assistant State Highway Commissioner, chief engineer of the State Highway Department, Division of Township Highways, township commissioner; Deputy Commissioner of Public Welfare, Bureau of Mental Health; Board of Inspectors of Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia; Board of Inspectors of the Western Penitentiary, Rockview; Board of Managers Pennsylvania Industrial Reformatory at Huntingdon; Board of Managers of State Industrial Home for Women, Muncy; Board of Managers Pennsylvania Training School, Morganza; Board of Trustees Pennsylvania State Oral School for the Deaf of Scranton, Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania; Trustees of the State Hospital for the Insane at Danville, Pennsylvania; Board of Trustees Home for the Training in Speech of Deaf Children before They are of School Age, Philadelphia; Soldiers' Orphan School Commission; Board of Trustees Soldiers' and Sailors' Home, Erie; Board of Trustees of Mercer State Hospital; Board of Trustees Homeopathic State Hospital for the Insane, Allentown; Board of Trustees State Hospital for the Criminal Insane, Farview; Board of Trustees Harrisburg State Hospital, Harrisburg; Board of Trustees State Hospital for the Insane of the Southeastern District of Pennsylvania, Norristown; Board of Trustees of the State Hospital for the Insane at Warren, Pennsylvania; Board of Trustees State Asylum for the Chronic Insane of Pennsylvania, South Mountain; Board of Trustees Western State Hospital for the Insane, Torrance; Board of Trustees State Hospital for Injured Persons of the Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania, Ashland; The Trustees of the Cottage State Hospital for Injured Persons of the Bituminous and Semi-Bituminous Coal Regions of Pennsylvania, at Blossburg; Board of Trustees State Hospital of Coaldale, Schuylkill County; The Trustees of the Cottage State Hospital for Injured Persons of the Bituminous and Semi-Bituminous Coal Regions of Pennsylvania, at Connellsville; The Trustees of the State Hospital of the Middle Coal Field of Pennsylvania, at Hazleton; The Trustees of the Cottage State Hospital for Injured Persons of the Bituminous and Semi-Bituminous Coal Regions of Pennsylvania at Mercer; Board of Trustees State Hospital of Luzerne County, Nanticoke; The Trustees of the Cottage State Hospital for Injured Persons of the Bituminous and Semi-Bituminous Coal Regions of Pennsylvania at Philipsburg; The Trustees of the State Hospital of the Northern Anthracite Coal Regions of Pennsylvania, Scranton; The Trustees of the State Hospital of the Trevorton, Shamokin, and Mount Carmel Coal Fields of Pennsylvania, Shamokin; Board of Managers Pennsylvania Village for Feeble-Minded Women, Laurelton; Board of Trustees State Institution for the Feeble-Minded and Epileptic of Eastern Pennsylvania, Pennhurst; Board of Trustees State Institution for Feeble-Minded of Western Pennsylvania, Polk; commission for the selection of a site and the erection of a State Institution for Inebriates; Building Commission of the Eastern State Hospital for the Insane, Selinsgrove; Board of Commissioners of Public Grounds and Buildings, Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings, Deputy Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings, Assistant Deputy Superintendent of Public Grounds and Buildings, Bureau of Information; The Department of Public Printing and Binding, Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding, Deputy Superintendent of Public Printing and Binding; Division of Documents, Chief of the Division of Documents; Director of Publications; Gettysburg Battlefield Memorial Commission; Commission for the Erection of a Statue of General George Gordon Meade; Robert Morris Monument Commission; General Galusha Pennypacker Monument Commission; Camp Curtin Park Commission; First Deputy Commissioner of Banking, Second Deputy Commissioner of Banking, Third Deputy Commissioner of Banking; Deputy Insurance Commissioner; assistant counsel of the Public Service Commission of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Board to Pass Upon the Necessity for the Construction of Elevated and Underground Passenger Railways; Valley Forge-Fairmount Park Road Commission; State Truancy School Commission; engineer to cooperate with Director of Wharves, Docks and Ferries, Philadelphia; Emergency Public Works Commission; secretary and assistant secretary of Board of Pardons; State Fair Commission; and Thaddeus Stevens Educational Memorial Commission.

71 P.S. § 2

1923, June 7, P.L. 498, No. 274, art. I, § 2. Amended 1927, April 13, P.L. 207, § 2.