Title 8, BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS

The commission shall make an annual report to the council containing a brief summary of its work during the year which shall be available for public inspection.

(a) Rules and regulations.-- (1) The commission shall make rules and regulations, to be approved as provided in section 1176 (relating to rules and regulations), providing for the examination of applicants for positions in the police force and as paid fire apparatus operators and…

A person who desires to apply for examination must file with the commission a formal application in which the applicant shall provide, under oath or affirmation, the following information: (1) Full name and residence or post office address. (2) Citizenship and place and date of b…

(a) General rule.--The commission may refuse to examine or, if examined, may refuse to certify after examination as eligible any applicant who: (1) is found to lack any of the minimum qualifications for examination prescribed in the rules and regulations adopted for the position …

(a) Ranking of candidates.-- (1) At the completion of the testing process, including a physical agility or other examination, with the exception of a background investigation to be conducted after the establishment of an eligibility list and physical and psychological medical exa…

No person shall be eligible to apply for examination unless the person is at least 18 years of age at the date of application. An applicant need not be a resident of the borough. The council of the borough may authorize the commission, by rule or regulation, to require police off…

(a) General rule.--An original appointment to a position in the police force or as a paid fire apparatus operator shall be for a probationary period of not less than six months and not more than one year, but during the probationary period an appointee may be dismissed only for a…

(a) General rule.--If there are urgent reasons for the filling of a vacancy in a position in the police force and there are no names on the eligibility list for the appointment, the council may nominate a person to the commission for noncompetitive examination, and, if the nomine…

(a) General rule.--A promotion shall be based on merit to be ascertained by an examination to be prescribed by the commission. All questions relative to a promotion shall be practical in character and fairly test the merit and fitness of persons seeking promotion. (b) Notificatio…

(a) Conditional offer of employment.-- (1) An applicant selected from the eligibility list shall receive a conditional offer of employment. The offer of employment shall be conditioned upon the conditional appointee undergoing a physical and psychological medical examination and …

(a) General rule.--No person employed in any police or fire force of any borough may be suspended without pay, removed or reduced in rank except for the following reasons: (1) Physical or mental disability affecting the person's ability to continue in service, in which case the p…

(a) Time of answer and hearing.--A person suspended, removed or reduced in rank may make written answers to any charges filed against the person not later than the day scheduled for the hearing. The commission shall grant the person a hearing that shall be held within a period of…

All appointments in the police or fire forces of boroughs, including the chief of police or equivalent official, prior to the creation of a commission, shall continue to hold their positions and shall not be required to take any examination under the provisions of this subchapter…

(a) Information.--No question in any form of application for examination or in any examination shall be so framed as to elicit information concerning the political or religious opinions or affiliations of any applicant nor shall inquiry be made concerning the opinions or affiliat…

A member of council who, by vote, appoints any person to the police force or as a fire apparatus operator contrary to the provisions of this subchapter, or a member of council or member of the commission who willfully refuses to comply with or conform to the provisions of this su…

A borough may: (1) Have succession perpetually by its corporate name. (2) Sue and be sued and complain and defend in the courts of this Commonwealth. (3) Make and use a common seal and alter the same at its discretion. (4) Purchase, exchange, acquire by gift or otherwise, hold, l…

(a) Sale.--No real estate owned by the borough may be sold except upon approval of council by resolution. Additionally, no real estate owned by the borough may be sold for a consideration in excess of $6,000, except to the highest bidder after due notice by advertisement for bids…

(a) Sale.--Except as provided in subsection (b), no borough personal property may be disposed of, by sale or otherwise, except upon approval of council by resolution. In cases when council approves a sale of the property, council shall estimate the fair market value of the entire…

(a) Sale of property.--Nothing under this chapter requiring advertising for bids or sale at public auction and sale to the highest bidder shall apply if borough real or personal property is to be sold to any of the following: (1) A county, city, borough, town, township, instituti…

The powers of the borough shall be vested in the council. In the exercise of any specific powers involving the enactment of an ordinance or the making of any regulation, restriction or prohibition, the borough may provide for enforcement and penalties for violations. The specific…

The council may make and adopt all ordinances, bylaws, rules and regulations not inconsistent with or restrained by the Constitution of Pennsylvania and laws of this Commonwealth as may be expedient or necessary for the proper management, care and control of the borough and its f…

The fiscal year of every borough shall coincide with the calendar year, beginning January 1 and ending December 31.

(a) Authority.--The council of the borough shall have power, by resolution for taxes levied at the same rate as or a rate lower than the previous fiscal year, and by ordinance if the tax rate increases from the previous fiscal year, to levy and collect annually a tax not exceedin…

(a) General rule.--A borough may in any year levy separate and different rates of taxation for municipal purposes on all real estate classified as nonfarmland, exclusive of the buildings on the real estate, and on all real estate classified as either buildings on land or farmland…

In addition to the levies provided for in section 1302.1 (relating to different and separate tax levies), if the council refuses or neglects to levy a sufficient tax to pay the debts due by the borough, a court may, after ascertaining the amount of the indebtedness of the borough…

(a) Authority.--Any borough shall be empowered, within its general power to levy taxes, to collect annually a tax upon all real property taxable for borough purposes, not to exceed five mills on the dollar in any one year, for the purpose of creating and maintaining a special fun…

Council shall, within 30 days after adoption of the budget or within 30 days after receipt of the assessment roll from the county, whichever is later, issue their duplicate of taxes assessed to the collector of taxes of the borough.

(a) Inspection and reassessment.--If in any borough there is any construction of a building or buildings not otherwise exempt as a dwelling after the council has prepared a duplicate of the assessment of borough taxes and the building is not included in the tax duplicate of the b…

Prior to the adoption of the budget, a proposed budget or annual estimate of revenues and expenditures for the ensuing year shall be prepared in a manner designated by the council. The proposed budget shall be kept on file with the borough secretary and be made available for publ…

(a) Notice.--Notice that the proposed budget is available for inspection shall be published by the borough secretary in a newspaper of general circulation, except in boroughs in which the estimated budget receipts are less than $50,000 in 2012, where, in lieu of the newspaper pub…

After the expiration of the ten days, council shall make the revision in the budget as deemed advisable. The budget must be as comprehensive and exact as the information available will permit. In addition to expenditures proposed for the current fiscal year, council may include a…

Upon completion of the budget containing the estimated receipts and expenditures, the council shall adopt the budget by motion of the council, which may not be later than December 31.

After council has adopted the budget, it is the duty of the council to adopt a resolution levying the taxes referred to in this part for the fiscal year for taxes levied at the same rate as or a rate lower than the previous fiscal year, and to enact an ordinance if the tax rate i…

During the month of January next following a municipal election, the council of a borough may amend the budget and the levy and tax rate to conform with its amended budget. A period of ten days' public inspection at the office of the borough secretary of the proposed amended budg…

The council in its reasonable discretion may, in any year, by motion, modify the budget after its final adoption. New appropriations, supplementary appropriations and transfers from one appropriation to another may be made during the fiscal year, either before or after the expend…

The payments made by the council from the borough funds must be made by proper borough orders, drawn upon the treasurer. No borough order may be authorized by council or signed by the president or secretary of a council unless there are sufficient funds in the treasury of the bor…

Council may set aside in a separate fund any money received out of or from the sale, lease or other disposition of any borough property or received from any source unless the money was received or acquired for a particular purpose. The fund must be controlled, invested and admini…

(a) Preparation of uniform forms.--The uniform forms for the annual financial statement required to be made by the auditors or the controller must be prepared by a committee consisting of four representatives from the Pennsylvania State Association of Boroughs, the Secretary of C…

(a) Authority.--For the purpose of financing the cost and expense or its share of the cost and expense of capital improvements, including the purchase and installation of machinery and equipment, by altering, improving or enlarging any of the following, a borough owning the plant…

(a) Duty of council.--Council shall invest borough funds consistent with sound business practice. (b) Investment program.--Council shall provide for an investment program subject to restrictions contained in this part and in another applicable statute and any rules and regulation…

(a) Authority of borough.--Each borough may make contracts for lawful purposes and for the purposes of carrying into execution this part and laws of this Commonwealth. (b) Contracts and purchases.--Except as otherwise specifically provided in this title, all contracts and purchas…

(a) Requirements.--All contracts or purchases in excess of the base amount of $18,500, subject to adjustment under subsection (a.2), except those mentioned in this section and except as provided by the act of October 27, 1979 (P.L.241, No.78), entitled "An act authorizing politic…

(a) Prohibition.-- (1) No member of council may evade section 1402 (relating to regulation of contracts) as to advertising for bids by purchasing or contracting for services and personal properties piecemeal for the purpose of obtaining prices under the amount specified or adjust…

Elected and appointed borough officials and borough employees are restricted from an interest in borough contracts and purchases to the extent provided in 65 Pa.C.S. Ch. 11 (relating to ethics standards and financial disclosure).

The council of each borough shall have power to permit, subject to terms and conditions as it may and, as specifically provided, shall prescribe, a paid or volunteer fire company, paid or volunteer rescue company and paid or volunteer ambulance company in the borough to participa…

If, in the preparation for the erection, construction and alteration of a public building, the entire cost of the work exceeds the amount specified or adjusted under section 1402(a) (relating to regulation of contracts), the architect, engineer or other person preparing the speci…