Section 904. Completion, Filing and Publication of Annual Township Report and Financial Statement.--(a) The board of auditors shall complete their audit, settlement and adjustment before the last day of June of each year. ((a) amended July 12, 2026, P.L.387, No.24)
(b) The board of auditors shall make a report of the affairs of the township, executed copies of which report shall be filed not later than the last day of June of each year by the secretary of the board of auditors with the township secretary, the clerk of the court of the county or the prothonotary under local rules of court, the Department of Community Affairs and the Department of Transportation. Each copy of the report shall be signed by at least a majority of the board of auditors and duly verified by the oath of the secretary of the board of auditors. Any secretary of the board of auditors who fails to file the township report or to publish the required financial statement commits a summary offense. ((b) amended July 12, 2026, P.L.387, No.24)
(c) The township report shall be presented on a uniform form prepared and furnished under section 3203.
(d) The township report shall contain the names and addresses of the chairman and members of the board of supervisors, the township secretary and the township treasurer, a statement of the receipts of the township from all sources and of all accounts and revenue which may be due and uncollected at the close of the fiscal year, a statement of the disbursements of the township during the fiscal year, a statement of the balance in the township treasury at the beginning of the fiscal year, a statement of the resources and liabilities of the township at the end of the fiscal year, a detailed statement of the indebtedness of the township at the close of the fiscal year and the provisions made for the payment thereof together with the purposes for which it was incurred, a statement of the cost of ownership and operation of each public service industry owned, maintained or operated by the township and other information as may be required in this act.
(e) On or before the fifteenth day of July of each year, the secretary of the township shall publish, once in one newspaper of general circulation in the township, concise financial information prepared or approved by the auditors and consistent with the audited financial statements, for total assets, total liabilities and total net position at year end and total revenue, expenses and changes in net position for the year just ended and a reference to a place within the township where copies of the financial statements and accompanying auditor's report may be examined. If the full financial statements and accompanying auditor's report are not published, copies shall be supplied to the publishing newspaper when the request for publication is submitted. ((e) amended July 12, 2026, P.L.387, No.24)
(f) If any township has a population of less than two hundred, as shown by the latest official census, the board of auditors may post five copies of the financial statement in public places in the township in lieu of publication in a newspaper.
Compiler's Note: Section 301(a)(16) of Act 58 of 1996, which created the Department of Community and Economic Development and abolished the Department of Community Affairs, provided that all other powers and duties delegated to the Department of Community Affairs not otherwise expressly transferrred elsewhere by Act 58 and currently performed by the Department of Community Affairs under section 904 are transferred to the Department of Community and Economic Development.