§ 1770Costs of Contest if For Probable Cause

(a) In contested nominations or elections of electors of
President and Vice-President, and State officers whose
jurisdiction extends over the State, and Senators and
Representatives of the United States and of this Commonwealth,
in which the committee, or court or judge shall decide that the
complaint is not without probable cause, the Commonwealth shall
be liable for all costs. The said committee or court shall
certify to the Auditor General a bill of such costs, which shall
be adjusted and settled in the usual manner, and paid out of
moneys appropriated for that purpose.
   (b) Whenever, in contested nominations or elections of
judges of courts of record, and of county, city, borough,
township, ward, school district or poor district officers, the
contestant or contestants establish his or their right to the
nomination or office, or, if they fail to establish their
rights, but the court or judge shall decide that the complaint
was not without probable cause, the court or judge shall
apportion all the costs among the proper districts, counties,
cities, boroughs, townships, wards, school districts or poor
districts, of the whole district in which contest is had, in
such way as said court or judge shall think just, and shall
compel by order, the payment of such amounts so apportioned to
each, by the properly constituted authorities of each of the
proper districts, counties, cities, boroughs, townships, wards,
school districts or poor districts, as the payment of debts by
the same can now be enforced.