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| THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA |
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| SENATE BILL |
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| INTRODUCED BY COSTA, FONTANA, STOUT AND LOGAN, FEBRUARY 19, 2009 |
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| REFERRED TO LABOR AND INDUSTRY, FEBRUARY 19, 2009 |
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| AN ACT |
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1 | Amending the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L.723, No.230), entitled, |
2 | as amended, "An act relating to counties of the second class |
3 | and second class A; amending, revising, consolidating and |
4 | changing the laws relating thereto," further providing for |
5 | certain disabled employees of jail and workhouses and |
6 | salaries and expenses to be paid. |
7 | The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania |
8 | hereby enacts as follows: |
9 | Section 1. Section 1531 of the act of July 28, 1953 (P.L. |
10 | 723, No.230), known as the Second Class County Code, is amended |
11 | to read: |
12 | Section 1531. Employes of Jails and Workhouses Disabled by |
13 | Violence, Injuries, Illness or Disease Suffered in the |
14 | Performance of Duty; Salaries and Expenses to be Paid.--Every |
15 | guard, matron, nurse or other employe who comes in contact with |
16 | inmates of any jail or workhouse, who is incapacitated as a |
17 | result of violence by an inmate, injuries, illnesses or disease |
18 | suffered while in the performance of his duties, shall be paid |
19 | by the county by which they are employed their full rate of |
20 | salary as fixed by the salary board until the disability arising |
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1 | therefrom has ceased. [, but the period of such salary payments |
2 | by the county shall not exceed the period during which such |
3 | employe is entitled to compensation for the injury, received |
4 | under the provisions of the Workmen's Compensation Act.] All |
5 | medical and hospital bills incurred in connection with any such |
6 | injuries, illnesses or disease shall be paid by such county. All |
7 | benefits under the Workmen's Compensation Law which shall be |
8 | received or collected by any such employe during the period he |
9 | has received salary for temporary disability shall be paid over |
10 | to the county and into the treasury thereof. If any such payment |
11 | or payments shall not be so made by such employe, the amount so |
12 | directed to be paid the county shall be deducted from any salary |
13 | which shall then or thereafter become due and owing to such |
14 | employe. |
15 | Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days. |
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