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§ 67.503. Appeals officer

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated StatutesTitle 65 P.S. Public OfficersEffective: January 1, 2009

Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes and Consolidated Statutes
Title 65 P.S. Public Officers (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 3A. Right-to-Know Law (Refs & Annos)
Chapter 5. Access
Effective: January 1, 2009
65 P.S. § 67.503
§ 67.503. Appeals officer
Currentness
(a) Commonwealth agencies and local agencies.--Except as provided in subsection (d), the Office of Open Records established under section 13101 shall designate an appeals officer under section 1101(a)(2)2 for all:
(1) Commonwealth agencies; and
(2) local agencies.
(b) Judicial agencies.--A judicial agency shall designate an appeals officer to hear appeals under Chapter 11.3
(c) Legislative agencies.--
(1) Except as set forth in paragraph (2), the Legislative Reference Bureau shall designate an appeals officer to hear appeals under Chapter 11 for all legislative agencies.
(2) Each of the following shall designate an appeals officer to hear appeals under Chapter 11:
(i) The Senate.
(ii) The House of Representatives.
(d) Law enforcement records and Statewide officials.--
(1) The Attorney General, State Treasurer and Auditor General shall each designate an appeals officer to hear appeals under Chapter 11.
(2) The district attorney of a county shall designate one or more appeals officers to hear appeals under Chapter 11 relating to access to criminal investigative records in possession of a local agency of that county. The appeals officer designated by the district attorney shall determine if the record requested is a criminal investigative record.

Credits

2008, Feb. 14, P.L. 6, No. 3, § 503, effective Jan. 1, 2009.

Footnotes

1
65 P.S. § 67.1310.
2
65 P.S. § 67.1101.
3
65 P.S. § 67.1101 et seq.
65 P.S. § 67.503, PA ST 65 P.S. § 67.503
Current through Act 10 of the 2024 Regular Session. Some statute sections may be more current, see credits for details.
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