[Adopted as Ch. I, Part 4, of the 1972 Code]
It is the desire and intention of the municipal
authorities of the Borough of Edgewood, a municipality of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, situated in Allegheny County in said Commonwealth,
to become a member of the Wilkinsburg - Penn Joint Water Authority,
which was incorporated on the fourth day of October 1945, by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, upon the application
of the Borough of Wilkinsburg and the Township of Penn, both municipalities
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and both situated in said Allegheny
County, under the provisions of the Municipality Authorities Act of
1945, approved May 2, 1945, Act No. 164, said joinder being under and in accordance with the provisions
of the aforesaid statute and the provisions of a Declaration of Trust,
dated December 21, 1945, which was executed by the Wilkinsburg - Penn
Joint Water Authority, the Borough of Wilkinsburg and the Township
of Penn and which is recorded in the office of Recorder of Deeds of
Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, in Deed Book Vol. 2880, page 20.
The Wilkinsburg - Penn Joint Water Authority
has been organized as stated in § 81-1 of this article and
has acquired the water properties of the Pennsylvania Water Company
with the permission of the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission
in proceedings before the Commission at Application Docket No. 65,
840 of 1945, and is now engaged in supplying water to a number of
communities in the County of Allegheny, Pennsylvania, including the
Borough of Edgewood.
The Wilkinsburg - Penn Joint Water Authority
and the Borough of Wilkinsburg and the Township of Penn, which created
the said Water Authority, executed a Declaration of Trust, dated December
21, 1945, and recorded in the office of the Recorder of Deeds of Allegheny
County, Pennsylvania in Deed Book Vol. 2880, page 20, which authorizes
the admission to membership in the said Authority of the Borough of
Edgewood provided that said Borough shall by proper municipal action
express its desire to become a member of the Authority, take all steps
necessary to provide for its admittance thereto, and by proper municipal
action join in the aforesaid Declaration of Trust and agree to be
bound by all the obligations thereto imposed upon the Borough of Wilkinsburg
and the Township of Penn. Upon said admission the Borough of Edgewood
shall be entitled to elect a member of the Board of said Authority
and thus participate in its management.
Under the authority contained in the aforesaid
Declaration of Trust and in accordance with the "Municipality Authorities
Act of 1945," approved May 2, 1945, Act No. 164, the Borough of East
Pittsburgh has become a member of said the Wilkinsburg - Penn Joint
Water Authority as evidenced by a certificate of joinder issued by
the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania under date of October
7, 1946.
The proper municipal officers of the Borough
of Edgewood are hereby authorized to take whatever action is required
by the provisions of the Municipality Authorities Act of 1945 and
the aforesaid Declaration of Trust to obtain the admission of the
Borough of Edgewood to membership in the Wilkinsburg - Penn Joint
Water Authority and to designate George R. Craig as a member of the
Board of said Authority representing the Borough of Edgewood.
The adoption of this article is deemed necessary
for the benefit and preservation of the public health, peace, comfort,
and general welfare of the people of the Borough of Edgewood.