Chapter 3. Detectives (Reserved) -

                                 TITLE 22                      DETECTIVES AND PRIVATE POLICE     Chapter        1.  General Provisions (Reserved)        3.  Detectives (Reserved)        5.  Private Police       33.  Railroad and Street Railway Police       37.  Humane Society Police Officers        Enactment.  Unless otherwise noted, the provisions of Title     22 were added November 15, 1972, P.L.1063, No.271, effective in     90 days.                                CHAPTER 1                            GENERAL PROVISIONS                                (Reserved)        Enactment.  Chapter 1 (Reserved) was added November 15, 1972,     P.L.1063, No.271, effective in 90 days.                                CHAPTER 3                                DETECTIVES                                (Reserved)        Enactment.  Chapter 3 (Reserved) was added November 15, 1972,     P.L.1063, No.271, effective in 90 days.                                CHAPTER 5                              PRIVATE POLICE     Sec.     501.  Appointment by nonprofit corporations.        Enactment.  Chapter 5 was added November 15, 1972, P.L.1063,     No.271, effective in 90 days.     § 501.  Appointment by nonprofit corporations.        (a)  Appointment authorized.--Any nonprofit corporation, as     defined in 15 Pa.C.S. Pt. II Subpt. C (relating to nonprofit     corporations) maintaining a cemetery or any buildings or grounds     open to the public, or organized for the prevention of cruelty     to children or aged persons, or one or more of such purposes,     may apply to the court of common pleas of the county of the     registered office of the corporation for the appointment of such     persons as the corporation may designate to act as policemen for     the corporation. The court, upon such application, may by order     appoint such persons, or as many of them as it may deem proper     and necessary, to be such policemen.        (b)  Oath of office.--Every policeman so appointed shall,     before entering upon the duties of his office, take and     subscribe the oath required by the sixth article of the     Constitution of Pennsylvania. Such oath, together with the     decree and order of the court, shall be recorded by the recorder     of deeds of each county in which it is intended that such     policemen shall act.        (c)  Powers.--Such policemen, so appointed, shall severally     possess and exercise all the powers of a police officer in this     Commonwealth, in and upon, and in the immediate and adjacent     vicinity of, the property of the corporation. Policemen so     appointed for a corporation organized for the prevention of     cruelty to children or aged persons, or one or more of such     purposes, shall severally possess and exercise all the powers of     a police officer in any county in which they may be directed by     the corporation to act, and are hereby authorized to arrest     persons for the commission of any offense of cruelty to children     or aged persons. The keepers of jails and other places of     detention in any county of this Commonwealth shall receive all     persons arrested by such policemen for purposes of detention     until they are dealt with according to law. Every policeman     appointed under this section, when on duty, shall wear a     metallic shield with the words "special officer" and the name of     the corporation for which appointed inscribed thereon.        (d)  Compensation.--The compensation of such policemen shall     be paid by the corporation for which the policemen are     appointed, as may be agreed upon between the corporation and     such policemen.        (e)  Termination of appointment.--When any corporation shall     no longer require the services of any policeman, it shall file a     notice to that effect, under its corporate seal, in the office     of each recorder of deeds where the court decree and order of     appointment of such policeman were recorded. The recorder of     deeds shall note this information upon the margin of the record     where the court decree and order were recorded, and thereupon     the powers of such policeman shall terminate. It shall be the     duty of the recorder of deeds to notify the clerk of the court     by which such policeman was appointed of the termination of such     appointment in such county.     (Dec. 19, 1990, P.L.834, No.198, eff. imd.; Nov. 30, 2004,     P.L.1603, No.205, eff. 180 days)        2004 Amendment.  Act 205 amended subsecs. (a) and (c).