71 Pa. Stat. § 751-8

Current through Pa Acts 2024-35, 2024-56
Section 751-8 - Reorganization Plan No. 8 of 1955-Department of Public Instruction; surplus property disposal

Section 1. The division of Surplus Property Disposal in the Department of Public Instruction where it was established by the head of the department, with the approval of the Executive Board in the year 1945, pursuant to the provisions of section 212 of the Administrative Code of 1929, is transferred from that department to the Department of Property and Supplies.

Section 2. There are hereby transferred to the Department of Property and Supplies the files, records, property, contract obligations, personnel, supplies and equipment now being used or held by the division of Surplus Property Disposal, and the unexpended balances of appropriations, allocations and other funds available or to be made available for use by the division of Surplus Property Disposal to be used for the payment of salaries, wages, general expenses, supplies, printing and equipment necessary for the work of the department with respect to the acquisition of Federal surplus property and the distribution of such property to schools and other agencies authorized to receive it.

Section 3. The following acts and parts of acts are suspended as particularly set forth:

Section 1 , act of April 12, 1945 (P.L. 220), entitled "An act authorizing the Commonwealth and any administrative department, boards, and commissions thereof acting through the Department of Property and Supplies, and political subdivisions of the Commonwealth, including municipal authorities, to enter into contracts with the United States of America, or any agency thereof, for the purchase, lease, or other acquisition of property, real or personal, offered for sale pursuant to the Surplus Property Act of one thousand nine hundred forty-four, without complying with any requirement of existing law as to specifications, advertising, award of contract, and approval of purchases by a State agency receiving competitive bids, or the delivery of property purchased before payment therefor," in so far as it confers any powers upon the Department of Public Instruction.

Section 3, act of December 22, 1955 (Act No. 29A), entitled "An act to provide for the ordinary expenses of the Department of Public Instruction for two years beginning June first, one thousand nine hundred fifty-five, and for the payment of bills incurred and remaining unpaid at the close of the fiscal year ending May thirty-first, one thousand nine hundred fifty-five, and making appropriations to the Department of Public Instruction for reimbursements to school districts," in so far as it is in conflict with this Reorganization Plan.

71 P.S. § 751-8

1956, Feb. 14, P.L. (1955) 2051, §§ 1 to 3.