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Pennsylvania Statutes, Title 8

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Title 8, BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS

42 chapters · 407 sections in this title.

All chapters in Title 8407 Ch 11, Powers, Duties and Rights of Appoint…51 Ch 10, Powers and Duties of Elected Officials37 Ch 24, Water System35 Ch 2, Creation and Alteration25 Ch 27, Recreation Places, Shade Trees and F…24 Ch 20, Sanitary Sewers20 Ch 13, Taxation and Finance19 Ch 17, Streets19 Ch 8, Elections of Officers14 Ch 31, Health and Sanitation12 Ch 1, Preliminary Provisions11 Ch 33, Ordinances11 Ch 21A, Assessments and Charges for Public I…9 Ch 28, Cemeteries9

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8 Pa.C.S. § 801 Eligibility
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(a) Residency.--The following shall apply: (1) Only registered electors of the borough shall be eligible to elective borough offices. (2) Except as provided under subsection (c) and 53 Pa.C.S. § 1142 (relating to residency during military service), before being sworn into office,…
8 Pa.C.S. § 802 Time and place
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Elections for borough officers shall be at the time and place designated by law for the holding of municipal elections.
8 Pa.C.S. § 803 Certificates
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Certificates of election of all borough officers shall be filed with the borough secretary and preserved among the records of the borough for a period of six years.
8 Pa.C.S. § 804 Term and bonds
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(a) Terms.--The following shall apply: (1) Except as provided under paragraph (2), an individual elected to a borough office shall serve for the term for which the individual was elected. (2) If a vacancy in office occurs, it shall be filled in the manner provided under this part…

8 Pa.C.S. § 805 Election after creation

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(a) Officers.--The officers of a borough provided for under section 806 (relating to officers elected) shall be elected at the appropriate municipal election and take office on the first Monday of January succeeding the election if any of the following occur: (1) A borough is inc…

8 Pa.C.S. § 806 Officers elected

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(a) Officers.--The electors of the borough may elect: (1) A mayor, who shall be elected at municipal elections every four years. (2) A tax collector, who shall be elected at municipal elections every four years and must be a properly qualified individual. A magisterial district j…

8 Pa.C.S. § 811 Election

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Biennially, at the municipal election, a sufficient number of members of council shall be elected to fill the places of members whose terms shall, under this part, expire on the first Monday of January following the election. Members elected under this section shall serve for a t…

8 Pa.C.S. § 812 Election of members of council

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(a) General rule.--If council, by ordinance, divides any borough into wards, erects new wards out of two or more wards or parts of wards or divides a ward already erected into two or more wards, the ordinance shall provide for the election of an equal number of members of council…

8 Pa.C.S. § 813 Fixing number of members of council

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If, upon the division of a borough into wards or the creation of a new ward, the number of members of council cannot be equally divided among the wards of the borough, it shall be lawful for council to increase the number of council members to and not exceeding a number that will…

8 Pa.C.S. § 814 Increase in number of ward council members

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Council may, upon petition of at least 5% of the registered electors of the borough, increase the number of members of council to any number not exceeding two for each ward. The sufficiency of the number of signers to the petition shall be ascertained as of the date when the peti…

8 Pa.C.S. § 815 Decrease in number of ward council members

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(a) General rule.--If, in any borough divided into wards, the council consists of more than seven members, at least 5% of the registered electors of the borough shall have the power to petition council for a decrease in the number of members of council from each ward, except that…

8 Pa.C.S. § 816 Election of members of council where wards abolished

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(a) Abolishing.--If council, by ordinance, abolishes all wards in a borough, the ordinance shall provide for the election of seven members of council at large for the borough in a manner as not to interfere with the terms of those ward members of council previously elected. If th…

8 Pa.C.S. § 817 Vacancies created after a primary election

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If a vacancy is created in the office of a member of council by any ordinance or decree of court as provided in this subchapter after a primary election, it may be filled by nomination made by the committee as is authorized by the rules of the party to make nominations in the eve…

8 Pa.C.S. § 818 Change in number of members of council

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(a) Petition by electors.--The court of common pleas shall, upon petition of at least 5% of the registered electors of any borough not divided into wards, certify the question of a proposal to reduce the total number of members of council for the borough to five or three or incre…