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Payments involving two or more political subdivisions - 35 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 7515

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     § 7515.  Payments involving two or more political subdivisions.
        (a)  General rule.--Where two or more political subdivisions
     have entered into an agreement as provided by section 7513
     (relating to agreements among political subdivisions), all bills
     and claims for expenses incurred by or for the local
     organization shall thereafter be paid in the first instance by
     the political subdivision named as agent in the agreement in the
     manner provided in section 7514 (relating to payments involving
     one political subdivision) as though the organization were
     coterminous with the political subdivision, and the organization
     shall be subject to all of the laws governing the making of
     contracts or purchases, the employment of persons or otherwise
     incurring financial obligations which apply to the political
     subdivision.
        (b)  Accounting by agent.--The political subdivision
     designated as agent shall, not later than the fifteenth day of
     each month, submit an itemized account of the expenses of the
     organization paid by it during the preceding calendar month to
     each of the other political subdivisions party to the agreement,
     together with a request for reimbursement of the proportionate
     share of expenses agreed to be paid by each of the other
     political subdivisions.
        (c)  Reimbursement of agent.--Each political subdivision
     requested to make reimbursement shall do so within 30 days after
     the request from the appropriation made for the payment of the
     expenses of the organization and, in the event of failure to do
     so, mandamus shall lie to compel the officers of the political
     subdivision to pay the agreed-upon proportionate share of the
     proper expenses of the organization out of the first moneys
     thereafter in the treasury of the political subdivision and not
     previously pledged to any other purpose. No political
     subdivision may be compelled to pay for any one year an amount
     greater than the amount estimated in the agreement as its
     proportionate share. Any payment made by any political
     subdivision to the political subdivision named as agent in the
     agreement for reimbursement for the payment of the expenses of
     the organization shall be credited by the agent political
     subdivision to the appropriation made by it for the payment of
     the expenses of the organization and shall be available for the
     payment of future expenses of the organization without further
     appropriation or action by the agent political subdivision.
        (d)  Gift or grant of money.--Any gift or grant of money made
     to or for the local organization, if made to a political
     subdivision, shall be deposited in its treasury and be
     appropriated by it for the purpose for which the gift or grant
     was made and the political subdivision shall notify the
     political subdivision named as agent in the agreement of the
     appropriation and the purpose for which it is available. If the
     gift or grant of money is made to the organization, it shall be
     deposited in the treasury of the political subdivision named as
     agent in the agreement and shall be appropriated by the
     political subdivision for the purpose for which the gift or
     grant was made. Any expenditure made by the agent political
     subdivision from any gift or grant deposited in its treasury or
     reimbursed from any gift or grant deposited in the treasury of
     any other political subdivision shall not be included in
     computing the reimbursement requested from any other political
     subdivision under the agreement.

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