{"id":43,"date":"2009-07-07T23:47:10","date_gmt":"2009-07-08T03:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/franklintownshipvoice.org\/?p=43"},"modified":"2013-10-24T10:55:41","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T14:55:41","slug":"legislation-would-force-municipalities-to-pay-for-state-police-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/franklintwp.info\/?p=43","title":{"rendered":"Legislation Would Force Municipalities To Pay for State Police Coverage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/s722735843.onlinehome.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/06\/HB-1500.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">HB 1500<\/a><\/strong> <em>(PN 2277)<\/em> would authorize the PA State Police to levy a per capita &#8220;patrol services fee&#8221; to be paid by each municipality that relies solely or partly on the State Police for patrol services.<\/p>\n<p>HB 1500 would require every municipality that currently does not provide local police patrol services, either through its own department or through a regional or contracted arrangement with a neighboring municipality, to pay an annual per capita fee of $52 dollars for the first year, $104 for the second year, and $156 for the third and subsequent years that it relies solely on the State Police for patrol services.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would levy a similar per capita fee against most municipalities with part-time local departments that would be $17 for the first year, $34 for the second year, and $52 for every subsequent year. This legislation is the latest in a number of similar bills that have been introduced intermittently since the Ridge administration.<\/p>\n<p>Townships that fail to pay these fees would forfeit all Commonwealth funding including liquid fuels payments, and would no longer be entitled to any State Police patrol services.<\/p>\n<p>This bill is currently before the full House.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"linkstrong\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/billinfo\/billinfo.cfm?syear=2009&amp;sind=0&amp;body=H&amp;type=B&amp;BN=0963\" target=\"_blank\">HB 963<\/a><\/strong> <em>(PN 1065) <\/em>would state that only municipalities that provide local police services through a municipal police department, participate in a regional police departments, or contract with other municipal or regional police for police services may receive revenue from certain vehicle offenses resulting from State Police action.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would begin phasing out the portion of State Police fine money currently received by municipalities with no local police protection by 20 percent increments over five years.<\/p>\n<p>This bill is before the House Judiciary Committee.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Both bills would affect over 1,200 municipalities. Please contact your state representatives to let them know that you oppose these bills.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"linkstrong\" href=\"http:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/legis\/home\/member_information\/email_list.cfm?body=H\" target=\"_blank\">PA Representatives&#8217; Emails\/Addresses\/Phone Numbers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HB 1500 (PN 2277) would authorize the PA State Police to levy a per capita &#8220;patrol services fee&#8221; to be paid by each municipality that relies solely or partly on the State Police for patrol services. HB 1500 would require every municipality&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-7_uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/franklintwp.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/franklintwp.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/franklintwp.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/franklintwp.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/franklintwp.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/franklintwp.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":721,"href":"http:\/\/franklintwp.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions\/721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/franklintwp.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/franklintwp.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/franklintwp.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}