APPENDIX TO TITLE 48

LODGING AND HOUSING

Supplementary Provisions of Amendatory Statutes

2016, JUNE 23, P.L.365, NO.51

§ 3. Continuation of prior law.

(1) The addition of 48 Pa.C.S. Ch. 13 is a continuation of the following:

(i) The act of May 7, 1855 (P.L.479, No.509), entitled "An act to protect Keepers of Hotels, Inns and Boarding Houses."

(ii) The act of June 12, 1913 (P.L.481, No.318), entitled "An act relating to inns and hotels; regulating certain rights and liabilities of hotelkeepers and innkeepers; and providing penalties for fraud against innkeepers and hotelkeepers."

(iii) Section 3.3 of the act of April 27, 1927 (P.L.465, No.299), referred to as the Fire and Panic Act.

(iv) Section 404(4) of the act of April 6, 1951 (P.L.69, No.20), known as The Landlord and Tenant Act of 1951.

(v) The act of August 19, 1953 (P.L.1083, No.285), entitled "An act requiring owners and operators of tourist camps having heated cabins to provide adequate chimneys or escape vents for harmful gases, and imposing penalties."

(vi) The act of October 30, 1996 (P.L.732, No.131), known as the Pennsylvania Innkeepers' Rights Act.

(vii) Sections 3(b) and 5 of the act of June 22, 2000 (P.L.339, No.39), known as the Infant Crib Safety Act.

(2) Except as otherwise provided in 48 Pa.C.S. Ch. 13, all activities initiated under the statutory provisions referred to in paragraph (1) shall continue and remain in full force and effect and may be completed under 48 Pa.C.S. Ch. 13. Orders, regulations, rules and decisions which were made under the statutory provisions referred to in paragraph (1) and which are in effect on the effective date of section 2 of this act shall remain in full force and effect until revoked, vacated or modified under 48 Pa.C.S. Ch. 13. Contracts, obligations and collective bargaining agreements entered into under the statutory provisions referred to in paragraph (1) are not affected nor impaired by the repeal of the statutory provisions referred to in paragraph (1).

(3) Any difference in language between 48 Pa.C.S. Ch. 13 and the statutory provisions referred to in paragraph (1) is intended only to conform to the style of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes and is not intended to change or affect the legislative intent, judicial construction or administration and implementation of the statutory provisions referred to in paragraph (1).

Explanatory Note. Act 51 added Parts I (Reserved) and II of Title 48.