Pennsylvania Statutes Title 46 P.S. Legislature and Statutes § 42.141. Additional stenographers and clerks; oath of office; attendance; payment of compensation

(a) Repealed by 1981, July 12, P.L. 266, No. 90, § 6, imd. effective.

(b) The officers and employes of the Senate and of the House of Representatives authorized by this act shall be severally sworn before entering upon their duties. All officers and employes who are paid annual salaries shall be in attendance at all times the General Assembly is in session and shall be available for the performance of the work of the General Assembly at all other times.

(c) All officers and employes who are paid a specified sum for each regular session and a per diem rate of pay for each special or extraordinary session shall be in attendance at all times the General Assembly is convened in regular session and as the special or extraordinary sessions shall be subject to call in the same way as other per diem employes.

(d) All per diem employes shall be in attendance at all times the General Assembly is in regular session and shall be paid only for the number of days beginning with the day such employe was sworn and actually entered upon the duties of his employment until the last day of the regular session for which he was appointed. The President pro tempore of the Senate as to the per diem employes of the Senate and the Chief Clerk of the House of Representatives as to per diem employes of the House may, in writing, direct may per diem employe of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, to report for duty at any other time, in which event, such employe shall be paid for the number of days beginning with the day on which he actually reports for duty and ending with the day on which his services terminate.

(e) All compensation payable to officers and employes under the provisions of this act shall be payable either semi-monthly on the fifteenth day and the last day of each month or on Thursday of every other week, or if Thursday is a holiday on the preceding day, on requisition of the Chief Clerk of the Senate or of the House of Representatives, as the case may be, pursuant to certification of the officer under whose direction and control the officer or employe shall be.