Pennsylvania Act 1995-57 — FIRST CLASS TOWNSHIP CODE, THE - AMEND COMPENSATION OF TOWNSHIP COMMISSIONER

Act text

Session of 1995

No. 1995-57

SB 665

AN ACT

Amending the act of June 24, 1931 (P.L.1206, No.331), entitled "An act concerning townships of the first class; amending, revising, consolidating, and changing the law relating thereto," providing for compensation of township commissioner.

The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hereby enacts as follows:

Section 1. Section 703 of the act of June 24, 1931 (P.L.1206, No.331), known as The First Class Township Code, reenacted and amended May 27, 1949 (P.L.1955, No.569) and amended December 20, 1991 (P.L.402, No.47), is amended to read:

Section 703. Compensation.--Each township commissioner may receive a salary, established by ordinance, of not more than [fifteen hundred] one thousand eight hundred seventy-five dollars per year in townships having a population of less than five thousand, not more than [two thousand] two thousand five hundred dollars per year in townships having a population of five thousand or more but less than ten thousand, not more than [twenty-six hundred] three thousand two hundred fifty dollars per year in townships having a population of ten thousand or more but less than fifteen thousand, not more than [thirty-three hundred] four thousand one hundred twenty-five dollars per year in townships having a population of fifteen thousand or more but less than twenty-five thousand, not more than [thirty-five hundred] four thousand three hundred seventy-five dollars per year in townships having a population of twenty-five thousand or more but less than thirty-five thousand, and not more than [four] five thousand dollars per year in townships having a population of thirty-five thousand or more. Such salaries shall be payable monthly or quarterly for the duties imposed by the provisions of this act. The population shall be determined by the latest available official census figures, except that no township shall be required to reduce the salary of a commissioner as a result of a decrease in population[.] or when an increase in salary is authorized pursuant to this section, the increase may be applied to the amount of the salary of the commissioner at the time such an increase is enacted by the board of commissioners.

Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.

APPROVED--The 31st day of October, A. D. 1995.

THOMAS J. RIDGE