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8 PA Cons Stat § 1111 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1111 - Duties

§ 1111. Duties.   (a) Attendance at meetings and maintenance of minutes.--The secretary shall attend all meetings of the council and shall maintain full minutes of its proceedings.  (b) Other duties.--The secretary shall: (1) Record or transcribe the bylaws, rules, regulations, resolutions and ordinances of the borough in accordance with section 1009 (relating to typewritten, printed, photocopied, microfilmed and electronically or digitally stored records valid and recording or transcribing records). (2) Preserve the records and documents of the borough, have custody of the corporate seal and deliver to the secretary's successor the seal and all books, papers and other records and things belonging to the borough. (3) Certify copies of any book, paper, record, bylaw, rule, regulation, resolution, ordinance or proceeding of the borough under the seal of the borough. The copies, if certified, shall be admissible in evidence in any court of this Commonwealth. (4) Attest the execution of all instruments, record all ordinances and attest the same by the secretary's signature and file of record proof of service of all notices required by law. The secretary's certificate shall be good evidence of notice. (5) Inform council and the public as required by 65 Pa.C.S. Ch. 7 (relating to open meetings) of all borough meetings, including special meetings of council.  (c) Necessary documents.--The borough shall furnish the secretary with the necessary dockets, books, forms and files as are necessary for the conduct of the office, which documents shall be and remain the property of the borough.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1112 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1112 - Assistant secretary

§ 1112. Assistant secretary.  A council may, by resolution, appoint an assistant secretary. The assistant secretary shall assist the secretary in the performance of the secretary's duties and, in case of absence or disability of the secretary, perform the duties and may exercise the powers of the secretary. The assistant secretary may be appointed from the membership of the council but shall not be any other officer of the council. Council may appoint the assistant secretary as the assistant treasurer if the assistant secretary is not a member of council.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1113 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1113 - Records open to inspection

§ 1113. Records open to inspection.  The fiscal records and documents and the minute book and other records and documents of every borough shall be open in accordance with the act of February 14, 2008 (P.L.6, No.3), known as the Right-to-Know Law.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1116 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1116 - Solicitor to have control of legal matters

§ 1116. Solicitor to have control of legal matters. The legal matters of the borough shall be under the control of the borough solicitor. No department or officer of the borough, except as otherwise provided by law, shall employ an additional counsel without the assent or ratification of the council. The borough solicitor must be licensed to practice law in this Commonwealth and may be one person or a law firm, partnership, association or professional corporation. The borough solicitor serves at the pleasure of council. In the absence of the solicitor, the law firm of which the solicitor is a member or associate may perform any of the duties or functions of the solicitor.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1117 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1117 - Duties of solicitor and outside counsel

§ 1117. Duties of solicitor and outside counsel.   (a) General rule.--The borough solicitor shall: (1) Prepare or approve, if directed or requested to do so by council or the mayor, any bonds, obligations, contracts, leases, conveyances, ordinances and assurances to which the borough or any department of the borough may be a party. (2) Commence and prosecute all actions brought by the borough for or on account of any of the estates, rights, trusts, privileges, claims or demands of the borough, as well as defend the borough or any borough officer against all actions or suits brought against the borough or borough officer in which any of the estates, rights, privileges, trusts, ordinances or accounts of the borough may be brought in question before any court in this Commonwealth. (3) Furnish the council or committees of the council, the mayor or the head of a department, upon request, with an opinion in writing upon any question of law which may be submitted by any of them in their official capacities. (4) Perform every other professional act incident to the office which the borough solicitor may be authorized or required to do by the council or the mayor.  (b) Outside counsel.--In the case of a legal dispute between the mayor and council or in any other case in which representation of the mayor and council by the borough solicitor would create a conflict of interest for the borough solicitor, the mayor may employ outside counsel at borough expense, not to exceed $4,000 in any 12-month period, to perform necessary legal services.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1118 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1118 - Assistant solicitor

§ 1118. Assistant solicitor.  A council may, by resolution, appoint an assistant solicitor to assist the solicitor in the performance of the solicitor's duties and, in the absence or disability of the solicitor, to perform the duties and exercise the powers of the solicitor.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1121 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1121 - Council's powers concerning police

§ 1121. Council's powers concerning police. (a) Establishment of police department.--Council may, by ordinance, establish a police department. If council establishes a police department, the following shall apply:  (1) Council may appoint police officers, subject to Subchapter J (relating to civil service for police and fire apparatus operators).  (2) Council may remove, suspend or reduce in rank any police officer: (i) in accordance with the act of June 15, 1951 (P.L.586, No.144), entitled "An act regulating the suspension, removal, furloughing and reinstatement of police officers in boroughs and townships of the first class having police forces of less than three members, and in townships of the second class"; or  (ii) subject to Subchapter J. (3) Council shall designate the ranks in the police department and the duties of each rank and may designate one of the police officers as chief of police.  (4) Council may assign any member of the police department to attend training classes offered by the Federal or State Government and may pay the police officer's expenses while attending the school.  (5) Council shall determine the total weekly hours of employment that shall apply to the police officers.  (b) Powers of borough police officers.--A borough police officer shall have those powers and abilities as are granted to police officers under the laws of this Commonwealth, the rules of the Supreme Court or the ordinances of the borough for which a fine or penalty is imposed unless otherwise excepted in this part.  (c) Ratification.--In any case in which a borough has previously appointed police officers or established a police department by action of council but not under an ordinance regularly enacted, the action shall be deemed to have been a valid exercise of the legislative power of the borough, and all police officers appointed shall occupy the same status and shall have the same rights and privileges as in the case of police officers appointed under authority of an ordinance.  (d) Political participation.--No police officer may participate in any political or election campaign while on duty or in uniform or while using borough property otherwise than to exercise the officer's right of suffrage.    Special Provisions in Appendix. See section 4(3)(ix) of Act 37 of 2014 in the appendix to this title for special provisions relating to continuation of prior law.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1122 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1122 - Police serving under cooperative agreement or contract

§ 1122. Police serving under cooperative agreement or contract.   (a) General rule.--If a borough enters into a cooperative agreement or contract with any municipal corporation, regional police force or other governmental entity created by two or more municipal corporations under 53 Pa.C.S. Ch. 23 Subch. A (relating to intergovernmental cooperation) for the furnishing or receiving of police protection as authorized by section 1202(35) (relating to specific powers), the police force of the municipal corporation, regional police force or other governmental entity furnishing the police protection shall be appointed and accepted as the police force of the borough receiving the police service by resolution of the council.  (b) Employment status.--Police officers of the police force of a municipal corporation, regional police force or other governmental entity so appointed shall, insofar as civil service and pensions are concerned, be deemed to be appointees and employees only of the municipal corporation, regional police force or other governmental entity furnishing their service and making the original appointment.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1123 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1123 - Police badge

§ 1123. Police badge.  Borough police officers shall wear a shield or badge with the word "Police" when on duty.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1123.1 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1123.1 - Mayor's powers concerning police

§ 1123.1. Mayor's powers concerning police.   (a) General rule.--The mayor shall have full charge and control of the chief of police and the police force.  (b) Direction.--The mayor shall direct the time during which, the place where and the manner in which the chief of police and the police force perform the duties of their rank.  (c) Delegation of duties.--The mayor may delegate to the chief of police or other officer supervision over and instruction to subordinate officers in the manner of performing their duties.  (d) Appointment of special police.--The mayor may appoint special police during an emergency in which the safety and welfare of the borough and the public is endangered.  (e) Auxiliary police.--The mayor may activate auxiliary police in accordance with general law and, notwithstanding any other provision of law, may activate auxiliary police for purposes of crowd and traffic control for limited periods during events if, in the mayor's discretion, public safety is promoted by the activation of the auxiliary police.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1124 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1124 - Suspension by mayor

§ 1124. Suspension by mayor.   (a) General rule.--In addition to the powers of council to suspend police officers, the mayor may, for cause and without pay, suspend any police officers until the succeeding regular meeting of the council at which time or later the council may, subject to Subchapter J (relating to civil service for police and fire apparatus operators), if they are in effect at the time, suspend, discharge, reduce in rank or reinstate with pay the police officers.  (b) Reinstatement.--  (1) A police officer suspended by the mayor may not be reinstated by council at a date earlier than ten working days from the date fixed by the mayor for the suspension to commence. (2) In any case in which the council has reinstated a police officer after having been suspended by the mayor, the mayor shall not suspend the police officer for reasons: (i) arising from the same act for which the first suspension was made; or (ii) that the council, in reinstating the police officer, determined not to be grounds for suspension.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1125 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1125 - Compensation

§ 1125. Compensation.  Borough police and special police appointed by the mayor shall receive compensation as fixed by the council.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1126 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1126 - (Reserved)

§ 1126. (Reserved).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1132 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1132 - Private police pension funds and optional transfers

§ 1132. Private police pension funds and optional transfers. (a) General rule.--If there is a private organization or association constituting and managing an existing pension fund for the members of the police force in any borough, the borough shall establish a police pension for the purpose of paying pensions to the members of its police force if the membership of the organization or association by a two-thirds vote elects to transfer its funds with all its assets and liabilities into a borough pension fund as required to be established by this part.  (b) Assumption of liability.--The transfer in subsection (a) may be made by the transfer of securities. After the transfer, the borough police pension fund shall assume the liability of continuing the payment of pensions to members of the police force retired prior to the transfer, in accordance with the laws and regulations under which the members were retired.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1141 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1141 - Borough manager created by ordinance and election

§ 1141. Borough manager created by ordinance and election.   (a) General rule.--The council of a borough may, at its discretion at any time, create by ordinance the office of borough manager and may, in like manner, abolish the office. While the office exists, the council shall, from time to time, and if there is a vacancy, elect, by a vote of a majority of all the members, one person to fill the office.  (b) Subject to employment agreement.--The borough manager shall serve at the pleasure of council, subject to contractual rights that may arise under an employment agreement that may be entered in accordance with section 1142 (relating to powers and duties).
8 PA Cons Stat § 1142 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1142 - Powers and duties

§ 1142. Powers and duties.   (a) General rule.--The powers and duties of the borough manager shall be regulated by ordinance.  (b) Employment agreement.--  (1) Council may enter into an employment agreement with the borough manager that specifies the terms and conditions of employment. (2) The employment agreement may 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 organizational meeting of council following the next municipal election, whichever occurs first. (3) An employment agreement entered into under this section may specify conditions under which a borough manager will be entitled to severance compensation, but in no event may the employment agreement guarantee employment through the term of the agreement or confer upon the borough manager any legal remedy based on specific performance. (4) An employment agreement with a borough manager executed on or after a municipal election but before the first meeting in January the year after the municipal election shall be void. (5) The council may delegate to the borough manager, by ordinance and subject to recall, any of the nonlegislative and nonjudicial powers and duties of the council, the planning commission and the shade tree commission. With approval of council, the mayor may delegate to the borough manager any of the mayor's nonlegislative and nonjudicial powers and duties.    Cross References. Section 1142 is referred to in section 1141 of this title.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1143 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1143 - Other offices not incompatible

§ 1143. Other offices not incompatible.  The offices of borough manager, street commissioner, secretary, treasurer and chief of police shall not be incompatible, and any two or more or all of the offices may be held by one person. Neither the mayor nor any member of the council shall be eligible to hold the office of borough manager.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1170 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1170 - Definitions

§ 1170. 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 indicates otherwise:  "Fire apparatus operator." A person who operates fire apparatus and devotes his normal working hours to operating any piece of fire apparatus or other services connected with fire protection work and who is paid a stated salary or compensation for the work by the borough.  "Police force." A police force organized and operating as prescribed by law, the members of which devote their normal working hours to police duty or duty in connection with the bureau, agencies and services connected with police protection work and who are paid a stated salary or compensation for the work by the borough. As used in this subchapter, the term shall not include any of the following:  (1) Special police appointed by the mayor to act in emergencies. (2) A person appointed solely for parking meter enforcement duties. (3) Special school police. (4) Extra police serving from time to time or on an hourly or daily basis. (5) An auxiliary policeman appointed under the act of January 14, 1952 (1951 P.L.2016, No.561), entitled "An act providing for supplementing the police forces of cities, boroughs, towns and townships, for the appointment, powers and control of auxiliary police therein, and for the transfer during disasters and emergencies of such auxiliary police, members of the regular police forces, and police equipment thereof."
8 PA Cons Stat § 1171 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1171 - Appointments of police and fire apparatus operators

§ 1171. Appointments of police and fire apparatus operators.   (a) Nonapplicability of subchapter.--This subchapter shall not apply to: (1) a borough that has a police force of less than three members; (2) a borough that has a police force of three or more members if those members in excess of two are appointed on a temporary basis through a federally funded program; (3) a volunteer fire department or company that employs its own operators; or (4) a borough that has less than three salaried fire apparatus operators.  (b) Compensation.--This subchapter is subject to the power of council to determine compensation.  (c) Appointments and promotions.--An appointment to and promotion in the police force or as fire apparatus operator paid directly by a borough and in the borough shall be made only according to qualifications and fitness, to be ascertained by examinations which shall be competitive as provided in this part.  (d) Suspension, removal and reduction in rank.--No person shall be suspended, removed or reduced in rank as a paid employee in any police force or as a paid fire apparatus operator of a borough, except in accordance with this subchapter.  (e) Retirement.--Nothing in this subchapter shall apply to retirement, nor shall anything in this subchapter be construed to prevent a borough from adopting a compulsory retirement age for its employees or for any class of employees and from retiring all employees automatically when they reach that age.
8 PA Cons Stat § 1172 (2021)
2021 Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes|Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS|Chapter 11 - Powers, Duties and Rights of Appointed Officers and Employees|Section 1172 - Civil service commission

§ 1172. Civil service commission.   (a) Establishment.--A civil service commission is established in each borough where a police force or paid fire apparatus operators are maintained.  (b) Membership and terms.--The commission shall consist of three commissioners who shall be qualified electors of the borough and appointed by the council initially to serve for the terms of two, four and six years. As terms expire, the commissioners shall be appointed for terms of six years.  (c) Vacancies.--A vacancy occurring in the commission for any reason shall be filled by the council for the unexpired term within the period of 30 days after the vacancy occurs.  (d) Alternate members.--  (1) Council may appoint no more than three qualified electors of the borough to serve as alternate members of the commission. The term of office of the alternate members shall be six years. (2) If seated under section 1174 (relating to organization of commission), an alternate shall be entitled to participate in all proceedings and discussions of the commission to the same and full extent as provided by law for commission members, including specifically the right to cast a vote as a voting member during the proceedings, and shall have all the powers and duties specified in this part and as otherwise provided by law. (3) An alternate member may not hold another office in the borough. (4) An alternate may participate in any proceeding or discussion of the commission but may not vote as a member of the commission unless designated as a voting alternate member under section 1174.  (e) Oath or affirmation of office.--Each member of the commission, before entering upon the discharge of the duties of office, shall take an oath or affirmation of office under 53 Pa.C.S. § 1141 (relating to form of oaths of office).  (f) Compensation prohibited.--The civil service commissioners shall receive no compensation.