PRINTER'S NO. 2688
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No.
1768
Session of
2015
INTRODUCED BY KIRKLAND, DECEMBER 19, 2015
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, DECEMBER 19, 2015
AN ACT
Amending Title 53 (Municipalities Generally) of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes, in municipal authorities, further
providing for governing body.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Section 5610(a.1) of Title 53 of the Pennsylvania
Consolidated Statutes is amended to read:
ยง 5610. Governing body.
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(a.1) Water authorities and sewer authorities.--If a water
or sewer authority incorporated by one municipality, in a second
class city with a population of between 33,000 and 35,000 based
on the most recent Federal decennial census, provides water or
sewer services to residents in at least two counties and has
water or sewer projects in more than two counties [where the
combined population of the served municipalities, excluding the
incorporating municipality, is at least five times the
population of the incorporating municipality], all of the
following apply:
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(1) Ninety days after the effective date of this
subsection, the governing body in existence on the effective
date of this subsection shall be replaced by a governing body
comprised of the following:
(i) [Three] Two members appointed by the governing
body from each county in which the services to residents
are provided. A member under this subparagraph must
reside in a town, township or borough, which receives
services from the authority.
(ii) [Three] Five members appointed by the governing
body of the incorporating municipality.
(2) A member serving under paragraph (1) shall serve for
a term of five years.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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