PRINTER'S NO. 765
No. 705 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY ROBBINS, THOMPSON, STOUT AND CONTI, APRIL 7, 1999
REFERRED TO LOCAL GOVERNMENT, APRIL 7, 1999
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 compensation.
5 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
6 hereby enacts as follows:
7 Section 1. Section 703 of the act of June 24, 1931
8 (P.L.1206, No.331), known as The First Class Township Code,
9 reenacted and amended May 27, 1949 (P.L.1955, No.569) and
10 amended October 31, 1995 (P.L.345, No.57), is amended to read:
11 Section 703. Compensation.--Each township commissioner may
12 receive a salary, established by ordinance, of not more than one
13 thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars per year in
14 townships having a population of less than five thousand, not
15 more than two thousand five hundred dollars per year in
16 townships having a population of five thousand or more but less
17 than ten thousand, not more than three thousand two hundred
18 fifty dollars per year in townships having a population of ten
19 thousand or more but less than fifteen thousand, not more than
1 four thousand one hundred twenty-five dollars per year in
2 townships having a population of fifteen thousand or more but
3 less than twenty-five thousand, not more than four thousand
4 three hundred seventy-five dollars per year in townships having
5 a population of twenty-five thousand or more but less than
6 thirty-five thousand, and not more than five thousand dollars
7 per year in townships having a population of thirty-five
8 thousand or more. Such salaries shall be payable monthly or
9 quarterly for the duties imposed by the provisions of this act.
10 Benefits provided to the commissioners under section 1502(LXIII)
11 shall not be considered pay, salary or compensation; but payment
12 for all or a part of the premiums or charges for the benefits
13 shall be in accordance with section 1502(LXIII). The population
14 shall be determined by the latest available official census
15 figures, except that no township shall be required to reduce the
16 salary of a commissioner as a result of a decrease in population
17 or when an increase in salary is authorized pursuant to this
18 section, the increase may be applied to the amount of the salary
19 of the commissioner at the time such an increase is enacted by
20 the board of commissioners.
21 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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