61 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 61 - Pennsylvania Board Of Probation And Parole

• Chapter Notes

Subchapter A.  Preliminary Provisions

• Section 6101 - Definitions
  The following words and phrases when used in this chapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly...
• Section 6102 - Operation Of Parole System Generally
  The parole system shall operate consistently with the following provisions: (1) The parole system provides several benefits to the criminal justice system, including the...

Subchapter B.  Administration

• Section 6111 - Pennsylvania Board Of Probation And Parole
  (a) Establishment.--The Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole is an independent administrative board for the administration of the probation and parole laws of this...
• Section 6112 - Board Chairperson
  (a) Designation by Governor.--The Governor shall, from time to time, as the occasion may arise, designate one of the members of the board to...
• Section 6113 - Board Action
  (a) Quorum.-- (1) A majority of the board shall constitute a quorum for transacting business and, except as otherwise provided in this chapter and...
• Section 6114 - Salaries Of Board Members
  The Executive Board shall determine the salaries to be paid to the members of the board.
• Section 6115 - Incompatible Offices And Removal
  (a) General rule.--The members of the board shall not hold any other public office or employment nor engage in any business, profession or employment...
• Section 6116 - Meetings
  (a) General rule.--As soon as may be convenient after their appointment, the members of the board shall meet and organize. (b) Appointment of secretary.--The...
• Section 6117 - Official Seal
  The board shall adopt an official seal by which its acts and proceedings shall be authenticated and of which the courts shall take judicial...
• Section 6118 - Offices
  (a) Principal office.--The principal office of the board shall be in Harrisburg, and the board shall appoint and employ such number and character of...
• Section 6119 - District Directors
  (a) Establishment.--Each district parole office shall have a district director who: (1) Shall be appointed by the board, with the approval of the Governor....
• Section 6120 - District Office Employees
  (a) Board to appoint.--The board shall appoint in the various district offices a sufficient number of parole officers, clerks, stenographers and other agents and...
• Section 6121 - Disciplinary Action
  (a) General rule.--Except as otherwise provided in subsection (b), an employee of the board, excluding the secretary and district supervisors, may be removed, discharged...
• Section 6122 - Political Activities
  (a) General rule.--No member of the board, or officer, clerk or employee thereof, or any person officially connected with the board: (1) Shall take...
• Section 6123 - Advisory Committee
  (a) Establishment.--An advisory committee on probation is reestablished to assist the board. (b) Composition.--The advisory committee shall consist of nine members, seven of whom...
• Section 6124 - Certain Offenders Residing In Group-based Homes
  (a) Notification requirement.-- (1) A group-based home located within a county of the sixth, seventh or eighth class that agrees to provide housing to...

Subchapter C.  Powers and Duties

• Section 6131 - General Powers Of Board
  (a) General rule.--The board shall have the power and its duty shall be: (1) To supervise and make presentence investigations and reports as provided...
• Section 6132 - Specific Powers Of Board Involving Parolees
  (a) General rule.--The board shall have exclusive power: (1) (i) To parole and reparole, commit and recommit for violations of parole and to discharge...
• Section 6133 - Probation Services
  (a) General rule.--The board shall have exclusive power to supervise any person placed on probation by any judge of a court having criminal jurisdiction,...
• Section 6134 - Sentencing Court To Transmit Records To Board
  (a) Duty to transmit.--A court sentencing any person for a term as to which power to parole is given to the board in this...
• Section 6134.1 - General Criteria For Parole By Court
  (a) Guidelines.--The court may parole or reparole subject to consideration of guidelines established under 42 Pa.C.S. § 2154.5 (relating to adoption of guidelines for...
• Section 6135 - Investigation Of Circumstances Of Offense
  (a) Duty to investigate.--The board, on the commitment to a correctional facility of any person whom the board is given the power to parole...
• Section 6136 - Right Of Access To Inmates
  All prison officials shall: (1) At all reasonable times grant access to any inmate whom the board has power to parole to the members...
• Section 6137 - Parole Power
  (a) General criteria for parole.-- (1) The board may parole subject to consideration of guidelines established under 42 Pa.C.S. § 2154.5 (relating to adoption...
• Section 6138 - Violation Of Terms Of Parole
  (a) Convicted violators.-- (1) A parolee under the jurisdiction of the board released from a correctional facility who, during the period of parole or...
• Section 6139 - Parole Procedure
  (a) Specific requirements.-- (1) The board may, subject to the provisions and limitations set forth in section 6138 (relating to violation of terms of...
• Section 6140 - Victim Statements, Testimony And Participation In Hearing
  (a) Duty of district attorney to provide notice.-- (1) The victim of the offense for which an inmate is sentenced shall be notified by...
• Section 6141 - General Rules And Special Regulations
  The board may make general rules for the conduct and supervision of persons placed on parole and may, in particular cases, as it deems...
• Section 6142 - Investigations For The Board Of Pardons
  The board shall make an investigation for the Board of Pardons in cases coming before it and upon its request. The investigation shall include...
• Section 6143 - Early Parole Of Inmates Subject To Federal Removal Order
  (a) Eligibility.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the board may parole an inmate into the custody of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

Subchapter D.  State Parole Agents

• Section 6151 - Definitions
  The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly...
• Section 6152 - Status As Peace Officers
  An agent is declared to be a peace officer and is given police power and authority throughout this Commonwealth to arrest without warrant, writ,...
• Section 6153 - Supervisory Relationship To Offenders
  (a) General rule.--Agents are in a supervisory relationship with their offenders. The purpose of this supervision is to assist the offenders in their rehabilitation...

Last modified: October 8, 2016