PRINTER'S NO. 2571
No. 1818 Session of 1990
INTRODUCED BY GREENLEAF, OCTOBER 15, 1990
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, OCTOBER 15, 1990
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 24, 1931 (P.L.1206, No.331), entitled
2 "An act concerning townships of the first class; amending,
3 revising, consolidating, and changing the law relating
4 thereto," further providing for the selection of the township
5 treasurer.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows: act of June 24, 1931 (P.L.1206,
8 No.331),
9 Section 1. Sections 503 and 510 of the act of June 24, 1931
10 (P.L.1206, No.331), known as The First Class Township Code,
11 reenacted and amended May 27, 1949 (P.L.1955, No.569), are
12 amended to read:
13 Section 503. Elected Officers Enumerated.--The electors of
14 each township shall elect (a) at least five township
15 commissioners, (b) subject to the provisions of section 510, one
16 township treasurer, (c) except as hereinafter otherwise
17 provided, one township assessor and one assistant township
18 assessor, and (d) except as otherwise hereinafter provided,
19 three elected auditors or one appointed auditor, or one
1 controller where such office has been established. All elected
2 township officers shall be registered electors of the township.
3 Section 510. Election or Appointment of Treasurer.--(a) (1)
4 The selection of a township treasurer may be by election as
5 provided in subsection (b) or by appointment as provided in
6 subsection (c).
7 (2) The determination of whether the township treasurer
8 shall be elected or appointed shall be made by the township
9 electors at a November election held at least two years prior to
10 the expiration of the term of office of the current township
11 treasurer. The court of common pleas shall, after the filing of
12 a petition signed by at least ten per centum of the registered
13 electors of the township filed at least one hundred twenty days
14 prior to the election, direct the county board of elections to
15 place a referendum question on the ballot of the township to
16 determine whether the township treasurer shall be appointed. The
17 results of the referendum question shall be returned to the
18 court and presented to the township commissioners.
19 (b) At the municipal election in the year one thousand nine
20 hundred and fifty-three, and subject to the provisions of
21 subsection (c), every fourth year thereafter, the electors of
22 each township shall elect a township treasurer for a term of
23 four years, from the first Monday of January next following his
24 election.
25 (c) If the electors of the township determine that the
26 township treasurer shall be appointed, then at least thirty days
27 prior to the expiration of the term of office of the current
28 treasurer, the township commissioners by a majority vote shall
29 appoint a township treasurer to serve a term of four years.
30 (d) When the township treasurer is unable to perform the
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1 duties of his office and fails or refuses to appoint a deputy,
2 the court of common pleas, on petition of the township
3 commissioners shall appoint a deputy treasurer to serve until
4 the treasurer is again able to perform the duties of his office,
5 or until such deputy is removed by the court, but in no instance
6 shall such deputy serve beyond the term of the treasurer in
7 whose office he is serving as deputy treasurer. The court shall
8 also fix the compensation of such deputy treasurer at a rate not
9 to exceed that paid to the elected township treasurer. For the
10 time such deputy shall serve such compensation shall be deducted
11 from the compensation otherwise payable to the township
12 treasurer. Such deputy shall furnish bond in the same manner as
13 the bond of the treasurer.
14 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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