SB 714 — An Act amending Title 16 (Counties) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes, in prothonotary, clerk of courts, clerk of orphans' court, register of wills and recorder of deeds, further providing for office holders.

PRINTER'S NO.    778

                     THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA



                        SENATE BILL
                        No. 714
                                                Session of
                                                  2025

     INTRODUCED BY MASTRIANO, MAY 12, 2025

     REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MAY 12, 2025


                                     AN ACT
 1   Amending Title 16 (Counties) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
 2      Statutes, in prothonotary, clerk of courts, clerk of orphans'
 3      court, register of wills and recorder of deeds, further
 4      providing for office holders.
 5      The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
 6   hereby enacts as follows:
 7      Section 1.    Section 14102(a) of Title 16 of the Pennsylvania
 8   Consolidated Statutes, added May 8, 2024 (P.L.50, No.14), is
 9   amended and the section is amended by adding a subsection to
10   read:
11   § 14102.    Office holders.
12      (a)     Counties of the third and fourth classes.--[In] Except
13   as provided under subsection (d.1), in counties of the third and
14   fourth classes, one individual shall hold the office of
15   prothonotary, one individual shall hold the office of clerk of
16   courts, one individual shall hold the offices of register of
17   wills and clerk of orphans' court and one individual shall hold
18   the office of recorder of deeds.
19      * * *
1      (d.1)   Counties of the fourth class.--Notwithstanding
2   subsection (a) or (b) or any other provision of law, in counties
3   of the fourth class, one individual may hold the offices of
4   prothonotary and clerk of courts.
5      * * *
6      Section 2.   This act shall take effect in 60 days.




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