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Appointment by nonprofit corporations - 22 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 501

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                                 TITLE 22
                      DETECTIVES AND PRIVATE POLICE

     Chapter
        1.  General Provisions (Reserved)
        3.  Detectives (Reserved)
        5.  Private Police
       33.  Railroad and Street Railway Police
       37.  Humane Society Police Officers

        Enactment.  Unless otherwise noted, the provisions of Title
     22 were added November 15, 1972, P.L.1063, No.271, effective in
     90 days.

                                CHAPTER 1
                            GENERAL PROVISIONS
                                (Reserved)

        Enactment.  Chapter 1 (Reserved) was added November 15, 1972,
     P.L.1063, No.271, effective in 90 days.

                                CHAPTER 3
                                DETECTIVES
                                (Reserved)

        Enactment.  Chapter 3 (Reserved) was added November 15, 1972,
     P.L.1063, No.271, effective in 90 days.

                                CHAPTER 5
                              PRIVATE POLICE

     Sec.
     501.  Appointment by nonprofit corporations.

        Enactment.  Chapter 5 was added November 15, 1972, P.L.1063,
     No.271, effective in 90 days.
     § 501.  Appointment by nonprofit corporations.
        (a)  Appointment authorized.--Any nonprofit corporation, as
     defined in 15 Pa.C.S. Pt. II Subpt. C (relating to nonprofit
     corporations) maintaining a cemetery or any buildings or grounds
     open to the public, or organized for the prevention of cruelty
     to children or aged persons, or one or more of such purposes,
     may apply to the court of common pleas of the county of the
     registered office of the corporation for the appointment of such
     persons as the corporation may designate to act as policemen for
     the corporation. The court, upon such application, may by order
     appoint such persons, or as many of them as it may deem proper
     and necessary, to be such policemen.
        (b)  Oath of office.--Every policeman so appointed shall,
     before entering upon the duties of his office, take and
     subscribe the oath required by the sixth article of the
     Constitution of Pennsylvania. Such oath, together with the
     decree and order of the court, shall be recorded by the recorder
     of deeds of each county in which it is intended that such
     policemen shall act.
        (c)  Powers.--Such policemen, so appointed, shall severally
     possess and exercise all the powers of a police officer in this
     Commonwealth, in and upon, and in the immediate and adjacent
     vicinity of, the property of the corporation. Policemen so
     appointed for a corporation organized for the prevention of
     cruelty to children or aged persons, or one or more of such
     purposes, shall severally possess and exercise all the powers of
     a police officer in any county in which they may be directed by
     the corporation to act, and are hereby authorized to arrest
     persons for the commission of any offense of cruelty to children
     or aged persons. The keepers of jails and other places of
     detention in any county of this Commonwealth shall receive all
     persons arrested by such policemen for purposes of detention
     until they are dealt with according to law. Every policeman
     appointed under this section, when on duty, shall wear a
     metallic shield with the words "special officer" and the name of
     the corporation for which appointed inscribed thereon.
        (d)  Compensation.--The compensation of such policemen shall
     be paid by the corporation for which the policemen are
     appointed, as may be agreed upon between the corporation and
     such policemen.
        (e)  Termination of appointment.--When any corporation shall
     no longer require the services of any policeman, it shall file a
     notice to that effect, under its corporate seal, in the office
     of each recorder of deeds where the court decree and order of
     appointment of such policeman were recorded. The recorder of
     deeds shall note this information upon the margin of the record
     where the court decree and order were recorded, and thereupon
     the powers of such policeman shall terminate. It shall be the
     duty of the recorder of deeds to notify the clerk of the court
     by which such policeman was appointed of the termination of such
     appointment in such county.
     (Dec. 19, 1990, P.L.834, No.198, eff. imd.; Nov. 30, 2004,
     P.L.1603, No.205, eff. 180 days)

        2004 Amendment.  Act 205 amended subsecs. (a) and (c).

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