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Effectuation of consolidation or merger - 53 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 738

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     § 738.  Effectuation of consolidation or merger.
        Municipalities consolidated or merged shall continue to be
     governed as before consolidation or merger until the date
     stipulated in the transitional plan and schedule provided for in
     sections 734 (relating to joint agreement of governing bodies)
     and 737 (relating to consolidation or merger agreement), or the
     transitional plan provided for by a study commission pursuant to
     section 735.1 (relating to initiative of electors seeking
     consolidation or merger with new home rule charter). Subject to
     the provisions of section 735.1(q), new officials required to be
     elected shall take office on the first Monday of January
     following the municipal election designated in the transitional
     plan and schedule. At that municipal election, the necessary
     officers of the consolidated or merged municipality shall be
     elected in accordance with the terms of the general law
     affecting municipalities of the kind or class of the
     consolidated or merged municipality or, in case of a
     consolidated or merged municipality operating under a home rule
     charter or optional plan of government, in accordance with the
     charter or optional plan or with general law affecting home rule
     or optional plan municipalities, as applicable. The officers
     elected at that municipal election shall be elected for terms of
     office under the plan and schedule set forth in the
     consolidation or merger agreement authorized by section 734 or
     737, or the transitional plan provided for by a commission
     pursuant to section 735.1, as the case may be. They shall take
     office as officers of the consolidated or merged municipality on
     the first Monday of January following the municipal election at
     which they were elected, and upon assumption of office, the
     consolidated or merged municipality shall begin to function and
     the former municipalities consolidated or merged into it shall
     be abolished.
     (Oct. 23, 2003, P.L.180, No.29, eff. 60 days)

        Cross References.  Section 738 is referred to in sections
     734, 735.1, 737 of this title.

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