53 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 31 - General Provisions Common To Optional Plans

Section 3101 - Adverse Interest In Contracts For Purchase Or Services
(a) General rule.--If a municipal officer or official elected or appointed knows or by the exercise of reasonable diligence should know that he is...
Section 3102 - Acceptance Of Services At More Favorable Terms
An officer or employee shall not accept or receive, directly or indirectly, from any person operating within the territorial limits of a municipality any...
Section 3103 - Gift Or Promise Of Thing Of Value To Influence Political Support
(a) General rule.--A candidate for office, appointment or employment or an officer, appointee or employee in any municipality shall not, directly or indirectly, give...
Section 3104 - Refusal Or Failure To Appear Or Testify Before Court
Any person elected or appointed to any office or position in a municipality governed under this subpart who, after lawful notice or process, willfully...

Section 3111 - Selection And Duties Of Municipal Treasurer
(a) General rule.--Under any of the optional plans as set forth in this subpart, except for the plan set forth in Subchapter F of...

Section 3121 - Appointment Of Members Of Boards And Commissions
The appointment power of the chief executive of the municipality under any of the plans authorized by this subpart shall include the appointment of...
Section 3122 - Appointment Of Subordinate Officers And Employees
(a) General rule.--Appointments and promotions of subordinate officers and employees within departments shall be made by the department head on the basis of a...

Section 3131 - Applicability Of Subchapter
This subchapter shall apply to the filling of vacancies in elected office in all optional plans and options except those set forth in Subchapter...
Section 3132 - Manner Of Filling Vacancies In Office
(a) Members of council.-- (1) If a vacancy exists in the municipal council, the municipal council shall, by a majority of its remaining members,...

Section 3141 - Regular And Special Meetings Of Council
The council shall, by ordinance or resolution, designate the time of holding regular meetings which shall be at least monthly. The executive (mayor) or...
Section 3142 - Procedure And Functions Of Council
(a) Rules of procedure.--Council shall determine its own rules of procedure, not inconsistent with ordinance or statute. A majority of the whole number of...
Section 3143 - Adoption Of Ordinances
(a) General rule.--Except as may otherwise be provided in this subpart, all ordinances shall be adopted and published as provided by law. Any ordinance...
Section 3144 - Recording And Compilation Of Ordinances And Resolutions
The municipal clerk or secretary shall record all ordinances and resolutions adopted by council and, at the close of each year, with the advice...
Section 3145 - Filing And Publication Of Rules And Regulations
No rule or regulation made by any department, officer, agency or authority of the municipality, except as it relates to the organization or internal...
Section 3146 - Passage Of Administrative Ordinance
The council shall prepare and pass an administrative ordinance which shall provide for the manner of appointment of a solicitor, clerk or secretary, may...

Section 3151 - Exercise Of Financial Management Control Functions
The council shall provide by separate ordinance or in the administrative ordinance for the exercise of a control function in the management of the...
Section 3152 - Post Audits By Independent Auditor
The council may provide for annual post audits of all accounts by an independent auditor who shall be a certified public accountant registered in...
Section 3153 - Selection Of Controller
Under any of the optional plans as set forth in this subpart, except for the plans set forth in Subchapter F of Chapter 30...

Section 3161 - Applicability Of Plan
Whenever the electors of a municipality adopt any of the optional plans provided by this subpart at any election for that purpose, the municipality...
Section 3162 - Status And Term Of Office Of Officials
(a) Existing elected official.--Any elected municipal official in office at the time of the adoption of any optional plan provided by this subpart shall...
Section 3163 - Compensation Of Elected Officials
(a) Officials elected prior to transition year.--The annual compensation of the executive (mayor) and council members elected to their offices in the year prior...
Section 3164 - Status Of Existing Ordinances And Resolutions
On the effective date of an optional plan adopted pursuant to this subpart, all ordinances and resolutions of the municipality to the extent that...
Section 3165 - Abolishment Of Existing Appointive Offices
(a) General rule.--On the effective date of an optional plan adopted pursuant to this subpart, all appointive offices then existing in such municipality shall...
Section 3166 - Pending Actions And Proceedings
All actions and proceedings of a legislative, executive or judicial character, pending upon the effective date of an optional plan, may continue. The appropriate...

Section 3171 - Repeal Of Optional Plan And Establishment Of New Form Of Government
(a) General rule.--The procedure for repeal of an optional plan shall be the same as for adoption of an optional plan as provided in...

Last modified: October 8, 2016