72 Pa. Stat. § 3601

Current through Pa Acts 2024-53, 2024-56 through 2024-92
Section 3601 - Certain special funds abolished; exceptions

From and after the first day of June, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-seven, all fees, fines, assessments, penalties, and other moneys, by law now payable into the State Treasury and held or deposited separate and apart in a special fund or funds, and available for expenditure only for the purposes to which dedicated by the act or acts of Assembly creating such special fund or funds or the amendments and supplements thereto, except fees, fines, assessments, penalties, and moneys payable into (a) the sinking fund, (b) the State bond road sinking funds, (c) the motor license fund, (d) the game fund, (e) the fish fund, (f) the State workmen's insurance fund, (g) the federal vocational education fund, (h) the industrial rehabilitation fund, (i) the agricultural college land scrip fund, (j) the State College experimental farm fund, (k) the several funds created by the laws providing for the retirement of school employés, (l) the several funds created by the laws providing for the retirement of state employés, (m) any other funds created in connection with the custody and safe-keeping of federal moneys, (n) the fund created for the insurance of State buildings, (o) the Banking Department fund, (p) the Securities Bureau fund, (q) the Voluntary Contribution funds Department of Forests and Waters, (r) the State Bond Road fund, (s) the State School fund, (t) the Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Bridge fund, (u) the manufacturing fund, (v) the bedding and upholstering fund, and (w) any fund in the State Treasury set apart for making payments to political subdivisions of the State out of the proceeds of the tax on foreign fire insurance companies as provided by law, shall be collectible in the manner now provided by law, but shall be payable only into the general fund of the State Treasury. All said special funds, except as above excepted, shall, from and after said date, be entirely abolished, and the moneys heretofore payable into said special funds shall hereafter be deposited in and be available for appropriation by the Legislature from the general fund for any lawful purpose. All moneys unexpended and remaining in said funds on said date shall likewise be paid into the general fund of the State Treasury and become available for general use. All securities in any fund so abolished shall be credited to the general fund and shall be sold by the Auditor General, the State Treasurer, and the Governor, as to them may appear advisable to protect the interests of the Commonwealth, and the moneys realized from such sales shall be deposited into the general fund.

72 P.S. § 3601

1927, May 6, P.L. 848, No. 428, § 1.