PRIOR PRINTER'S NO. 699 PRINTER'S NO. 1224
No. 665 Session of 1995
INTRODUCED BY BAKER, CORMAN, ROBBINS, STOUT AND STEWART,
MARCH 6, 1995
AS AMENDED ON THIRD CONSIDERATION, JUNE 12, 1995
AN ACT
1 Amending the act of June 24, 1931 (P.L.1206, No.331), entitled
2 "An act concerning townships of the first class; amending,
3 revising, consolidating, and changing the law relating
4 thereto," providing for compensation of township
5 commissioner.
6 The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
7 hereby enacts as follows:
8 Section 1. Section 703 of the act of June 24, 1931
9 (P.L.1206, No.331), known as The First Class Township Code,
10 reenacted and amended May 27, 1949 (P.L.1955, No.569) and
11 amended December 20, 1991 (P.L.402, No.47), is amended to read:
12 Section 703. Compensation.--Each township commissioner may
13 receive a salary, established by ordinance, of not more than
14 [fifteen hundred] one thousand eight hundred seventy-five
15 dollars per year in townships having a population of less than
16 five thousand, not more than [two thousand] two thousand five
17 hundred dollars per year in townships having a population of
18 five thousand or more but less than ten thousand, not more than
19 [twenty-six hundred] three thousand two hundred fifty dollars
1 per year in townships having a population of ten thousand or
2 more but less than fifteen thousand, not more than [thirty-three
3 hundred] four thousand one hundred twenty-five dollars per year
4 in townships having a population of fifteen thousand or more but
5 less than twenty-five thousand, not more than [thirty-five
6 hundred] four thousand three hundred seventy-five dollars per
7 year in townships having a population of twenty-five thousand or
8 more but less than thirty-five thousand, and not more than
9 [four] five thousand dollars per year in townships having a
10 population of thirty-five thousand or more. Such salaries shall
11 be payable monthly or quarterly for the duties imposed by the
12 provisions of this act. The population shall be determined by
13 the latest available official census figures, except that no
14 township shall be required to reduce the salary of a
15 commissioner as a result of a decrease in population[.] OR WHEN <--
16 AN INCREASE IN SALARY IS AUTHORIZED PURSUANT TO THIS SECTION,
17 THE INCREASE MAY BE APPLIED TO THE AMOUNT OF THE SALARY OF THE
18 COMMISSIONER AT THE TIME SUCH AN INCREASE IS ENACTED BY THE
19 BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS.
20 Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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