Title 73, TOWNSHIPS

The township controller may not permit an appropriation made by the board of commissioners to be overdrawn. If an appropriation has been completely expended and the objective of the appropriation has not been completed, the township controller shall have all of the following duti…

(a) Contracts.--Before an item of appropriation takes effect in a contract, the contract shall designate the item on which the appropriation is founded and the estimated amount of the expenditure which shall be charged against the item as certified by the township controller on t…

The township controller shall, as often as the township controller may deem expedient or the board of commissioners shall direct, suggest plans to the board of commissioners for the management and improvement of the township finances.

The township controller shall maintain financial records and maintain as many accounts, under appropriate titles, as may be necessary to show separately and distinctly all of the following: (1) The estates and property, real and personal, vested in the township. (2) The trusts in…

An appeal may be taken from the settlement and audit of the controller as shown in the controller's report to the court of common pleas of the county by the same individual, in the same manner, within the same time, subject to the same conditions and procedures and with the simil…

During the 45-day period elapsing between the date of filing the controller's report and the expiration of the time for filing the appeal from the report, a township controller shall retain possession of all financial records and other papers that were submitted to the controller…