Document Citation: 16 P.S. § 1948

Header:
PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES
TITLE 16. COUNTIES
CHAPTER 1. THE COUNTY CODE
ARTICLE XIX. SPECIAL POWERS AND DUTIES OF COUNTIES
(G.1) DISASTER EMERGENCY AID TO MUNICIPALITIES


Date:
08/31/2009

Document:
§ 1948. Emergency Appropriation to Municipal Corporations


(a) The board of county commissioners of any county may appropriate money from the county's operating reserve fund, created and maintained in accordance with section 513 for the purpose of assisting municipal corporations within the county with any cleanup, maintenance, repair and improvements undertaken as a result of damage incurred or a dangerous condition caused by either a disaster emergency within the county declared by the Governor or a local emergency declared by the governing body of a municipal corporation within the county.

(b) As used in this section:

"DISASTER EMERGENCY" shall have the meaning ascribed to the term in 35 Pa.C.S. § 7102 (relating to definitions).

"LOCAL EMERGENCY" shall have the meaning ascribed to the term in 35 Pa.C.S. § 7102 (relating to definitions).