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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
As used in this act:
(1) “Agency” means any executive or administrative department, commission, council, board, bureau, division, service, office, officer, administration, or other establishment in the executive or administrative branch of the State Government. The term does not include the Auditor General, State Treasurer, or Secretary of Internal Affairs, or the departments of which they are the heads, or any agency within any of those departments, nor does the term include any independent administrative board or commission.
(2) “Reorganization” means (i) the transfer of the whole or any part of any agency, or of the whole or any part of the functions thereof, to the jurisdiction and control of any other agency, or (ii) the abolition of all or any part of the functions of any agency, or (iii) the consolidation or coordination of the whole or any part of any agency, or of the whole or any part of the functions thereof, with the whole or any part of any other agency or the functions thereof, or (iv) the consolidation or coordination of any part of any agency or the functions thereof with any other part of the same agency or the functions thereof, or (v) the authorization of any officer to delegate any of his functions, or (vi) the abolition of the whole or any part of any agency which agency or part does not have or upon the taking effect of a reorganization plan will not have any functions.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Pennsylvania Statutes Title 71 P.S. State Government § 750-2. Definitions - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/pa/title-71-ps-state-government/pa-st-sect-71-750-2/
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