The powers and duties of the Attorney General and/or the Department of Justice contained in the following acts or parts of acts are transferred to the Office of General Counsel:
Section 3 of the act of June 8, 1907 (P.L. 496, No. 322), entitled "An act to establish a Board of Commissioners of Navigation for the river Delaware and its navigable tributaries; regulating their jurisdiction over ships, vessels, and boats, and wharves, piers, bulkheads, docks, slips, and basins; and exempting cities of the first class from certain of its provisions; and making an appropriation therefor."
Section 9 of the act of July 9, 1919 (P.L. 814, No. 338), entitled "An act providing for the erection and construction by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the State of New Jersey of a bridge over the Delaware River, connecting the city of Philadelphia and the city of Camden, and the approaches thereto; providing for a joint commission for that purpose, and defining its powers and duties; providing for an independent commission in this Commonwealth in relation thereto, and defining its powers and duties; providing for the payment of a part of the cost thereof by the city of Philadelphia; and providing for the acquiring, taking, and condemnation of the real estate for the site and approaches thereof; providing for the turning over of said bridge upon its completion; and making an appropriation for the purposes of this act."
Section 1 of the act of March 24, 1921 (P.L. 48, No. 23), entitled, as amended, "An act providing for the transfer of convicts from the State penitentiaries and their imprisonment in the penitentiary to which transferred; imposing costs for such transfers upon the Commonwealth; imposing the cost of the maintenance of convicts so transferred upon the counties in which they were convicted; directing that certain notice of such transfer of a convict be given; and making appropriations."
Section 2 of the act of May 27, 1921 (P.L. 1191, No. 443), entitled "An act creating a State Fair Commission for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; defining its duties; and making an appropriation therefor."
Sections 1 and 6 of the act of July 11, 1923 (P.L. 1044, No. 425), entitled, as amended, "An act to authorize and provide for the transfer and retransfer of person or persons confined in any penitentiary, prison, workhouse, house of correction, or any other institution for adult prisoners, under sentence of law, convicted but awaiting sentence, awaiting trial, or confined for any other purpose to some other prison, penitentiary, workhouse, house of correction, or other institution for adult prisoners."
Sections 404, 477 through 477.16, 905.1, 905.2, 911, 912, 913, 914, 914.1, 915 and 916 of the act of April 9, 1929 (P.L. 177, No. 175), known as "The Administrative Code of 1929."
Sections 1 and 2 of the act of June 21, 1939 (P.L. 660, No. 307), entitled, as amended, "An act providing for the return of escaped prisoners and convicts after apprehension, to the penitentiary or state institution from which they escape, by the agents of the Department of Justice or the Pennsylvania State Police, and requiring the penitentiary or state institution to defray the expenses thereof."
Section 21.1 of the act of August 6, 1941 (P.L. 861, No. 323), referred to as the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole Law.
Section 4 of the act of May 15, 1945 (P.L. 547, No. 217), known as the "Soil Conservation Law."
Section 774 of the act of June 1, 1945 (P.L. 1242, No. 428), known as the "State Highway Law."
Sections 1 , 2 and 3 of the act of July 29, 1953 (P.L. 1433, No. 410), entitled "An act creating certain penal and correctional institutions and boards of trustees; abolishing certain penal institutions; imposing duties upon the Commissioner of Correction of the Department of Justice; and providing for the costs of transportation and maintenance of inmates."
Sections 2 , 4, 5, 6 and 8 of the act of July 29, 1953 (P.L. 1435, No. 411), entitled "An act relating to the more effective treatment of persons convicted of crime or committed as defective delinquents; creating in the Department of Justice correctional diagnostic and classification centers; providing for the diagnosis and classification of persons sentenced or committed by the courts to a State institution; fixing the responsibility for costs of transportation and maintenance of such persons; prescribing duties of the courts and the powers and duties of the Department of Justice relative thereto; making civil and criminal laws applicable to penitentiaries and persons therein or responsible therefor applicable in the case of the said institutions."
Sections 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 of the act of July 29, 1953 (P.L. 1440, No. 414), entitled "An act providing for the construction and equipping of the Pennsylvania Institution for Defective Delinquents; providing for the acquisition of land; providing for the reception, confinement, treatment, care, maintenance and control of inmates; imposing duties and conferring powers on the Department of Justice, Department of Property and Supplies and the General State Authority."
Section 1 of the act of December 8, 1959 (P.L. 1718, No. 632), entitled, as amended, "An act providing for the payment of the salary, medical and hospital expenses of employes of State penal and correctional institutions, State mental hospitals, Youth Development Centers, County Boards of Assistance, and under certain conditions other employes of the Department of Public Welfare, who are injured in the performance of their duties; and providing benefit to their widows and dependents in certain cases."
Sections 1 and 6 of the act of December 21, 1959 (P.L.1962, No. 717), entitled "An act providing for the creation and operation of the Juvenile Court Judges' Commission in the Department of Justice; prescribing its powers and duties; and making an appropriation."
Section 23 of the act of August 23, 1961 (P.L. 1068, No. 484), entitled, as amended, "An act to provide for the creation and administration of a Coal and Clay Mine Subsidence Insurance Fund within the Department of Environmental Resources for the insurance of compensation for damages to subscribers thereto; declaring false oaths by the subscribers to be misdemeanors; providing penalties for the violation thereof; and making an appropriation."
Section 604-A of the act of June 22, 1964 (Sp.Sess., P.L. 84, No. 6), known as the "Eminent Domain Code."
Sections 2 , 3 and 5 of the act of December 22, 1965 (P.L. 1189, No. 472), entitled "An act establishing a correctional facility for criminological diagnosis, classification, social and psychological treatment and research, medical treatment and staff training."
Sections 2 and 3 of the act of December 27, 1965 (P.L. 1237, No. 502), entitled "An act establishing regional correctional facilities administered by the Bureau of Correction as part of the State correctional system; establishing standards for county jails, and providing for inspection and classification of county jails and for commitment to State correctional facilities and county jails."
Sections 412 and 415 of the act of October 20, 1966 (3rd Sp.Sess., P.L. 96, No. 6), known as the "Mental Health and Mental Retardation Act of 1966."
Section 208 of the act of June 13, 1967 (P.L. 31, No. 21), known as the "Public Welfare Code."
Sections 1 and 2 of the act of July 16, 1968 (P.L. 351, No. 173), entitled, as amended, "An act authorizing the establishment of prisoner pre-release centers and release plans under the jurisdiction of the Department of Justice and defining its powers and duties."
Sections 2 , 3 and 7 of the act of October 16, 1972 (P.L. 913, No. 218), entitled "An act establishing regional community treatment centers for women administered by the Bureau of Correction of the Department of Justice as part of the State Correctional System, providing for the commitment of females to such centers and their temporary release therefrom for certain purposes, restricting confinement of females in county jails and conferring powers and duties upon the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Correction."
Section 104(10) of the act of February 1, 1974 (P.L. 34, No. 15), known as the "Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement Law."
42 Pa.C.S. §§ 9755 and 9756.
24 Pa.C.S. §§ 8501(e), 8502(h) and 8503.
42 Pa.C.S. §§ 5974, 5977 and 6352.
71 Pa.C.S. §§ 5102, 5901(e) and 5902(h).
71 P.S. § 732-502