24 Pa. Stat. § 25-2585
Whenever a joint school board or a joint school committee, or any of its officers or employes, renders any service or performs any act, function or duty for which school districts are entitled to receive payments authorized by this article, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or any of its departments authorized by this article to make payments to school districts, may, upon request of the school districts which have established the joint school board or joint school committee, and the submission of information and reports otherwise required by this article to be filed or presented to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania or any of its departments or to the officer who heads any such department, make the payments directly to the joint school board or joint school committee in lieu of making the payments to the school districts which have established the joint school board or joint school committee. The payments to the joint school boards and joint school committees shall be subject to withholding of payments and forfeiture of payments and all other requirements of this article for payments to school districts by the Commonwealth or its departments.
24 P.S. § 25-2585