8 Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes Chapter 2 - Creation And Alteration
Subchapter A. Incorporation
- Section 200 - Definitions
The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter shall have the meanings given to them in this section unless the context clearly...
- Section 201 - Contiguous Areas
A court of common pleas may incorporate as a borough any contiguous area from one or more townships within the court's jurisdiction having a...
- Section 202 - Applications
(a) Petition.--The following shall apply: (1) The application for incorporation shall be by a petition signed by a majority of the freeholders residing within...
- Section 202.1 - Borough Advisory Committee
(a) Establishment.--The court shall establish a borough advisory committee when a petition is received by the court for the creation of a borough. The...
- Section 202.2 - Advisability Of Incorporation, Certification Of Question For Referendum And Decree
(a) Process.--After receiving the findings of fact and the advice of the committee, the court shall conduct a hearing. If, after the hearing, the...
- Section 203 - (Reserved)
- Section 204 - (Reserved)
- Section 205 - Borough Government And Requisites Of Charter
(a) Time.--When the petition and the final decree granting the petition have been recorded, the area shall become an incorporated borough and shall be...
- Section 206 - Farmlands
If, in any petition for the incorporation of a borough, the boundaries fixed by the petitioners embrace lands exclusively used for the purposes of...
- Section 207 - Corporate Name
The corporate name of a borough incorporated under this part shall be "The Borough of ."
- Section 208 - (Reserved)
- Section 209 - (Reserved)
- Section 210 - Certificates
(a) Decree.--When a borough is created, the clerk of courts in each county affected shall, within 30 days of the creation, certify to the...
- Section 211 - Temporary Preservation, Organization And Election Of Officers
(a) Government.--The following shall apply: (1) A newly incorporated area under section 201 (relating to contiguous areas) shall continue to be governed as before...
- Section 212 - Boundaries
The boundaries of the borough shall, as soon as practicable after its incorporation, be appropriately marked. Prior to marking the boundaries, notice shall be...
- Section 213 - Adjustment Of Indebtedness
(a) Property.--The following shall apply: (1) After the election of a council under section 211 (relating to temporary preservation, organization and election of officers)...
- Section 214 - Judicial Adjustment
(a) Petition.--If the governing bodies of the township and the borough cannot make an amicable adjustment and apportionment of the property and indebtedness within...
- Section 215 - Judicial Adjustment Award Proceedings
(a) Notice.--The commissioners shall give the township and the borough at least five days' notice of the filing of the report under section 214(c)...
- Section 216 - Exceptions
If exceptions are filed to the report under section 214(c) (relating to judicial adjustment), the court shall dispose of the exceptions and shall enter...
- Section 217 - Compensation, Expenses And Costs
The commissioners under section 214(b) (relating to judicial adjustment) shall receive compensation and expenses for their services as provided by the court. The costs...
- Section 218 - Territory Located In Multiple Counties
If territory included within the limits of a newly incorporated borough is located in at least two counties, the court of common pleas of...
- Section 219 - Bond Issues And Taxation
In any proceeding to adjust and apportion indebtedness, the township or the borough shall have power to issue and deliver to the borough or...
Subchapter B. Consolidation (Reserved)
Subchapter C. Creation from Cities of the Third Class
- Section 231 - Procedure
(a) Petition.--The court of common pleas shall, upon petition of at least 10% of the registered electors of any city of the third class,...
- Section 232 - Filing, Notice And Return
(a) Filing.--Upon presentation of a petition under section 231 (relating to procedure), the court shall determine whether the petition meets the requirements under section...
- Section 233 - Borough Government
(a) City.--When the record of the proceedings under section 232 (relating to filing, notice and return) is recorded, the city form of government shall...
- Section 234 - Effect
(a) Property.--When the borough government is formed, the property and assets of the city shall become the property of the borough, and the change...
- Section 235 - Costs And Expenses
(a) Petitioners.--Except as provided under subsection (b), the costs and expenses of proceedings to change the charter of a city to a borough, including...
Subchapter D. Consolidation or Merger and Change of Corporate Name
Last modified: October 8, 2016