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PENNSYLVANIA STATUTES
TITLE 24. EDUCATION
CHAPTER 1. PUBLIC SCHOOL CODE OF 1949
ARTICLE XXV. REIMBURSEMENTS BY COMMONWEALTH AND BETWEEN SCHOOL DISTRICTS
(F) SCHOOL BUILDING RENTALS AND SINKING FUND CHARGES
Date:
08/31/2009
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§ 25-2577. Limitations on approval of projects for reimbursement purposes
(a) Repealed by 1961, Sept. 12, P.L. 1268, § 5.
(a.1) Repealed by 1966, Feb. 1, P.L. (1965) 1642, § 16, effective June 30, 1968.
(b) The Department of Public Instruction shall determine reimbursement eligibility of all projects including projects submitted for approval prior to the effective date of this act in the order of date of filing of applications for project approval with the department, except that in the case of applications for area vocational-technical schools, the department may grant priority to such applications in the order in which said applications are received and process them immediately. If a delay in departmental processing of any application on file is occasioned by the applying school district, the department shall proceed to determine reimbursement eligibility of projects next in order, except that in the event of an emergency due to fire, flood, orders from the Department of Labor and Industry to close school buildings or parts thereof where such school buildings or parts thereof are determined to be irrepairable and are closed finally by the Department of Labor and Industry, or an act of God, which causes undue hardship beyond the control of the applying school district, the department may grant priority over the eligibility of projects submitted prior to the emergency application: Provided, however, That in cases where priority is granted due to closed schools or parts thereof by orders of the Department of Labor and Industry, the approved reimbursable costs of such projects shall not be included within the aggregate for projects already undertaken or to be undertaken as provided in subsection (a) of this section.
(c) Unless the general construction contract for any project is awarded within ten months subsequent to the date of approval by the Department of Public Instruction and by any other agency as required by existing law, approval shall be withdrawn, except that when a district shows to the satisfaction of the department that the contract has not been let for reasons beyond its control or that withdrawal of approval would work undue hardship, the department may grant extensions beyond the ten-months period for three periods of ninety days each before approval is withdrawn. Any project for which approval was withdrawn under the provisions of act 417, approved March 22, 1956 (P.L. 1315), may be reinstated by the Department of Public Instruction and granted extensions which, together with the time already elapsed, shall not exceed nineteen months beyond the date of approval given by the Department of Public Instruction or any agency as required by existing law. A project for which approval is withdrawn may be resubmitted to the department as a new project.
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