Court Opinion

ID: 9756230
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-28 21:16:24.658142+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:28:16.632694
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*123Dissenting Opinion by
Mk. Justice Bell:
1. Unless an Act or an ordinance or bylaws or a Resolution or a proper motion otkenvise provide, no second to a nomination is required: Roberts, Revised Rules of Order, §66, page 268.
■ 2. The election or appointment of Chace was not by “appointment through a resolution” as required by §901 of The Borough Code of May 4, 1927, supra. There was no evidence that the Borough Council had adopted (a) any rule about an appointment or a nomination or whether it had to be seconded, or (b) that it had waived any statutory requirement or any Council-manic ordinance or rule. The result is Skulski was deprived of the right the law gives him, and Cha-ce’s appointment or election, as the record discloses, was illegal. If Chace is really the choice of a majority of the Councilmen of the Borough of Brookhaven, the Council’s error can be quickly corrected by a new and legal vote.