Bill Text: PA HB2355 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Further providing for township manager.

Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-2)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-10-08 - Referred to LOCAL GOVERNMENT [HB2355 Detail]

Download: Pennsylvania-2009-HB2355-Introduced.html

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PRINTER'S NO. 3408
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF PENNSYLVANIA
HOUSE BILL
No. 2355 Session of2010
INTRODUCED BY FREEMAN, KESSLER, GRUCELA, ROSS AND GINGRICH, MARCH 18, 2010
REFERRED TO COMMITTEE ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT, MARCH 18, 2010
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," further providing for township manager.
The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. Clause IV of section 1502 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 July 2, 1953 (P.L.326, No.71), is amended to read:
Section 1502. The corporate power of a township of the first
class shall be vested in the board of township commissioners.
The board shall have power--
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IV. Township Manager. To create, by ordinance, the office of
township manager, and in like manner to abolish the same. The
township manager shall serve at the pleasure of the board of
commissioners, subject to contractual rights that may arise
under an employment agreement that may be entered in accordance
with this clause.
The powers[, duties, term of office, and compensation] and
duties of the township manager shall be regulated by ordinance.
The board of commissioners may enter into an employment
agreement with the township manager. The employment agreement
may set forth the terms and conditions of employment, and the
agreement may provide that it shall remain in effect for a
specified period terminating no later than two years after the
effective date of the agreement or the date of the board of
commissioners' organizational meeting following the next
municipal election, whichever shall first occur. An employment
agreement entered into pursuant to this clause may specify
conditions under which a township manager would be entitled to
severance compensation, but in no event shall an employment
agreement guarantee employment through the term of the agreement
or confer upon the township manager any legal remedy based on
specific performance. The commissioners may delegate, subject to
recall, any of their respective non-legislative and non-judicial
powers and duties to the township manager. He shall, if required
by the township commissioners, give a bond to the township, with
a surety company or other company authorized by law to act as
surety, to be approved by the commissioners, in such sum as it
shall, by ordinance or resolution, direct, conditioned for the
faithful performance of his duties.
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Section 2. This act shall take effect in 60 days.
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