Official text of published documents - 45 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 901

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                                CHAPTER 9
                        EFFECTIVENESS OF DOCUMENTS

     Sec.
     901.  Official text of published documents.
     902.  Certification of official text.
     903.  Effective date of documents.
     904.  Constructive notice.
     905.  Presumptions created.
     906.  Reasonable notice of hearing.
     907.  Additional notice unnecessary.

        Enactment.  Chapter 9 was added July 9, 1976, P.L.877,
     No.160, effective in 60 days.
     § 901.  Official text of published documents.
        (a)  General rule.--The official text, as published as
     provided in Subchapter B of Chapter 7 (relating to publication
     of documents), of any document required or authorized to be
     published in the code, the permanent supplements thereto, or the
     bulletin, shall from the date of such publication be the only
     valid and enforceable text of such document regardless of any
     discrepancy between such official text and the agency text of
     such document. Thereafter any amendment to such document shall
     be drawn as an amendment to the official text thereof. If an
     agency discovers a discrepancy between the agency text and the
     official text of a document, the agency shall forthwith deposit,
     without regard to the requirements of 2 Pa.C.S. § 301 (relating
     to notice of proposed rule making) and 2 Pa.C.S. § 302 (relating
     to adoption of administrative regulations) with the Legislative
     Reference Bureau an appropriate corrective amendment to the
     official text, and the agency may specify that such amendment
     shall be effective as of the effective date of the defective
     official text, but only persons who have had actual knowledge of
     the discrepancy shall be affected by such amendment prior to the
     publication of the official text thereof in the manner
     prescribed in this part. The purpose of this section is to
     permit the public to rely absolutely upon the correctness of the
     text of a regulation, statement of policy or other document as
     published in the code, the supplements thereto, or the bulletin
     by declaring such published text to be the only legal evidence
     of the valid and enforceable text of such regulation, statement
     of policy or other document.
        (b)  Home rule charter documents and optional plans of
     government.--Notwithstanding subsection (a), the text of any
     home rule charter amendment or repeal or any optional plan of
     government, as published as provided in Subchapter B of Chapter
     7, shall from the date of such publication be prima facie
     evidence of the text of the home rule charter, amendment or
     repeal, or of the plan of government approved by the electors.

        Cross References.  Section 901 is referred to in section 902
     of this title.

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