PRINTER'S NO. 2211
No. 1496 Session of 2008
INTRODUCED BY REGOLA, PIPPY, FERLO, ARMSTRONG, BAKER, BOSCOLA,
BROWNE, BRUBAKER, CORMAN, COSTA, EARLL, EICHELBERGER,
ERICKSON, FOLMER, FUMO, GORDNER, GREENLEAF, KITCHEN, LOGAN,
McILHINNEY, ORIE, PILEGGI, RAFFERTY, RHOADES, WAUGH,
D. WHITE, WONDERLING AND WOZNIAK, JUNE 19, 2008
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, JUNE 19, 2008
AN ACT
1 Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
2 Consolidated Statutes, in area government and
3 intergovernmental cooperation, providing for agreements and
4 cooperation with municipal authorities.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Title 53 of the Pennsylvania Consolidated
8 Statutes is amended by adding a section to read:
9 § 2310.1. Agreements and cooperation with municipal
10 authorities.
11 (a) General rule.--One or more local governments in this
12 Commonwealth, pursuant to ordinance containing the elements set
13 forth under section 2307 (relating to content of ordinance), and
14 one or more municipal authorities created under Chapter 56
15 (relating to municipal authorities) or under the former act of
16 May 2, 1945 (P.L.382, No.164), known as the Municipality
17 Authorities Act of 1945, pursuant to a resolution containing the
1 elements set forth under section 2307, may enter into an
2 agreement to cooperate in the exercise or in the performance of
3 their respective functions, powers or responsibilities.
4 (b) Limitations.--An agreement entered into pursuant to this
5 section shall not do any of the following:
6 (1) Delegate or transfer the governmental powers or
7 functions of a local government to a municipal authority,
8 unless the municipal authority, by law, has been granted the
9 authority to exercise the governmental powers or functions in
10 question.
11 (2) Enlarge or diminish the powers of a municipal
12 authority beyond those authorized and permitted by law.
13 (c) Review.--Agreements executed pursuant to this section
14 need not be submitted to the Local Government Commission for
15 review.
16 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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