9799.1 - Duties of Pennsylvania State Police.
§ 9799.1. Duties of Pennsylvania State Police. The Pennsylvania State Police shall: (1) Create and maintain a State registry of offenders and sexually violent predators. (2) In consultation with the Department of Corrections, the Office of Attorney General, the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole and the chairman and the minority chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate and the chairman and the minority chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives, promulgate guidelines necessary for the general administration of this subchapter. These guidelines shall establish procedures to allow an individual subject to the requirements of sections 9795.1 (relating to registration) and 9796 (relating to verification of residence) to fulfill these requirements at approved registration sites throughout this Commonwealth. The Pennsylvania State Police shall publish a list of approved registration sites in the Pennsylvania Bulletin and provide a list of approved registration sites in any notices sent to individuals required to register under section 9795.1. An approved registration site shall be capable of submitting fingerprints, photographs and any other information required electronically to the Pennsylvania State Police. The Pennsylvania State Police shall require that approved registration sites submit fingerprints utilizing the Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System or in another manner and in such form as the Pennsylvania State Police shall require. The Pennsylvania State Police shall require that approved registration sites submit photographs utilizing the Commonwealth Photo Imaging Network or in another manner and in such form as the Pennsylvania State Police shall require. Approved registration sites shall not be limited to sites managed by the Pennsylvania State Police and shall include sites managed by local law enforcement agencies that meet the criteria for approved registration sites set forth in this paragraph. (3) Write regulations regarding neighbor notification of the current residence of sexually violent predators. (4) Notify, within five days of receiving the offender's or the sexually violent predator's registration, the chief law enforcement officers of the police departments having primary jurisdiction of the municipalities in which an offender or sexually violent predator resides, is employed or enrolled as a student of the fact that the offender or sexually violent predator has been registered with the Pennsylvania State Police pursuant to sections 9795.2 (relating to registration procedures and applicability) and 9796 (relating to verification of residence). (5) In consultation with the Department of Education and the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole, promulgate guidelines directing licensed day-care centers, licensed preschool programs, schools, universities and colleges, including community colleges, on the proper use and administration of information received under section 9798 (relating to other notification). (6) Immediately transfer the information received from the Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole under section 9799.2(2) and (3) (relating to duties of Pennsylvania Board of Probation and Parole) and the fingerprints of a sexually violent predator to the Federal Bureau of Investigation. (May 22, 1996, P.L.300, No.46, eff. imd.; May 10, 2000, P.L.74, No.18, eff. 60 days; Nov. 24, 2004, P.L.1243, No.152, eff. 60 days) 2004 Amendment. Act 152 amended the entire section, effective immediately as to pars. (1) and (4) and 60 days as to the remainder of the section. Cross References. Section 9799.1 is referred to in section 9792 of this title.