Pennsylvania Act 1889-1 — FIRST CLASS CITIES, BEGINNING THE TERMS OF OFFICE OF OFFICIALS

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FIRST CLASS CITIES, BEGINNING THE TERMS OF OFFICE OF OFFICIALS
                   Act of Feb. 12, 1889, P.L. 3, No. 1                Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     To provide for the commencement of the terms of office of
        councilmen, constables and school directors in new wards,
        when erected in cities of the first class under existing laws
        and where the several wards constitute separate school
        districts, to provide for the supervision of the public
        schools in such new wards until the organization of the board
        of school directors of the new school section, and to provide
        for the term of councilmen and constables already elected by
        the voters of the old ward.

        Section 1.  Organization; election of constables and school
     directors
        Whenever any new ward is erected or created in any city of
     the first class within this Commonwealth, the qualified electors
     of such ward at the next general or municipal election,
     occurring not less than forty days after the decree of the
     proper court having jurisdiction declaring the election or
     creation of such new ward in conformity to law, shall elect one
     person to serve as a member of select council, such a number of
     members of common council as the ward is entitled to, according
     to the list of taxable inhabitants, such a number of constables
     as is directed by law, and a full board of directors of public
     schools, together with such a number as they are annually
     entitled to elect for full terms.  On the second Monday after
     the election of such officers the members of councils shall be
     admitted to their seats and the constables shall, if they have
     filed their bonds, enter upon the execution of the duties of
     their offices; and that all councilmen and constables residing
     in said new ward or wards, who were elected by the qualified
     electors of the old ward, shall serve out the respective terms
     for which they were elected as members from the old ward, and if
     any election should occur for councils or constables previous to
     the expiration of their respective terms, they shall be counted
     as part of the whole number to which said ward is entitled,
     according to the list of taxable inhabitants.
        The term of the member of select council shall be until the
     first Monday of April, in the third year succeeding the year in
     which such election has been held.  The term of the member or
     members of common council shall be until the first Monday of
     April, in the second year succeeding the year in which such
     election has been held.  The term of the constables shall be
     until the first Monday of April, in the fifth year succeeding
     the year in which such election has been held. In voting for the
     directors of public schools, one-third of the number composing
     the board shall be voted for to serve until the first Monday of
     January next succeeding such election; one other third shall be
     voted for to serve until the first Monday of January in the
     second year succeeding such election; and the other third shall
     be voted for to serve until the first Monday of January in the
     third year succeeding such election.  The others to be voted for
     at said election, as above specified, shall succeed the first
     class herein designated upon the expiration of their terms as
     above provided, to-wit, on the first Monday of January in the
     year next succeeding such election.
        On the second Monday following such election, the first three
     classes provided for as above shall meet at some convenient
     place in their ward and organize by the election of a president
     and a secretary. The time and place of such meeting shall be
     determined by the board of education of such city; and
     immediately upon their organization the board of school
     directors of such new ward shall take charge of all such public
     schools within their ward as are now provided for by law.  Until
     their election and organization the board of school directors of
     the ward from which such new ward has been taken shall continue
     to supervise and direct such schools as they did before the
     erection and creation of the new ward.  1889, Feb. 12, P.L. 3,
     Sec. 1.

        Compiler's Note:  Section 4 of Act 49 of 2009 provided that
            section 1 is repealed insofar as it relates to
            constables.