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Pennsylvania Constitution, Article IX

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Article IX, Local Government

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All articles174 Art. I29 Art. II17 Art. III32 Art. IV21 Art. V18 Art. VI7 Art. VII14 Art. VIII17 Art. IX14 Art. X4 Art. XI1

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Pa. Const. art. IX, § 1 Local government
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The General Assembly shall provide by general law for local government within the Commonwealth. Such general law shall be uniform as to all classes of local government regarding procedural matters.
Pa. Const. art. IX, § 2 Home rule
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Municipalities shall have the right and power to frame and adopt home rule charters. Adoption, amendment or repeal of a home rule charter shall be by referendum. The General Assembly shall provide the procedure by which a home rule charter may be framed and its adoption, amendmen…
Pa. Const. art. IX, § 3 Optional plans
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Municipalities shall have the right and power to adopt optional forms of government as provided by law. The General Assembly shall provide optional forms of government for all municipalities. An optional form of government shall be presented to the electors by initiative, by the …
Pa. Const. art. IX, § 4 County government
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County officers shall consist of commissioners, controllers or auditors, district attorneys, public defenders, treasurers, sheriffs, registers of wills, recorders of deeds, prothonotaries, clerks of the courts, and such others as may from time to time be provided by law. County o…

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Pa. Const. art. IX, § 5 Intergovernmental cooperation

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A municipality by act of its governing body may, or upon being required by initiative and referendum in the area affected shall, cooperate or agree in the exercise of any function, power or responsibility with, or delegate or transfer any function, power or responsibility to, one…

Pa. Const. art. IX, § 6 Area government

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The General Assembly shall provide for the establishment and dissolution of government of areas involving two or more municipalities or parts thereof.

Pa. Const. art. IX, § 7 Area-wide powers

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The General Assembly may grant powers to area governments or to municipalities within a given geographical area in which there exists intergovernmental cooperation or area government and designate the classes of municipalities subject to such legislation.

Pa. Const. art. IX, § 8 Consolidation, merger or boundary change

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Uniform Legislation.--The General Assembly shall, within two years following the adoption of this article, enact uniform legislation establishing the procedure for consolidation, merger or change of the boundaries of municipalities. Initiative.--The electors of any municipality s…

Pa. Const. art. IX, § 9 Appropriation for public purposes

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The General Assembly shall not authorize any municipality or incorporated district to become a stockholder in any company, association or corporation, or to obtain or appropriate money for, or to loan its credit to, any corporation, association, institution or individual. The Gen…

Pa. Const. art. IX, § 10 Local government debt

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Subject only to the restrictions imposed by this section, the General Assembly shall prescribe the debt limits of all units of local government including municipalities and school districts. For such purposes, the debt limit base shall be a percentage of the total revenue, as def…

Pa. Const. art. IX, § 11 Local reapportionment

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Within the year following that in which the Federal decennial census is officially reported as required by Federal law, and at such other times as the governing body of any municipality shall deem necessary, each municipality having a governing body not entirely elected at large …

Pa. Const. art. IX, § 12 Philadelphia debt

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The debt of the City of Philadelphia may be increased in such amount that the total debt of said city shall not exceed 13 1/2% of the average of the annual assessed valuations of the taxable realty therein, during the ten years immediately preceding the year in which such increas…

Pa. Const. art. IX, § 13 Abolition of county offices in Philadelphia

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(a) In Philadelphia all county offices are hereby abolished, and the city shall henceforth perform all functions of county government within its area through officers selected in such manner as may be provided by law. (b) Local and special laws, regulating the affairs of the City…

Pa. Const. art. IX, § 14 Definitions

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As used in this article, the following words shall have the following meanings: "Municipality" means a county, city, borough, incorporated town, township or any similar general purpose unit of government which shall hereafter be created by the General Assembly. "Initiative" means…