A Borough Planning Commission, to be composed of five (5) members, is
hereby created for the Borough of Ephrata. Such Commission shall be appointed
as prescribed by law and shall perform all the duties and may exercise all
the powers and functions vested by law in planning agencies for boroughs,
provided that the Borough Planning Commission in existence at the time of
enactment of this chapter shall constitute the Planning Commission hereby
created, and nothing herein shall affect the tenure of any member thereof,
but all vacancies in said Commission, regardless of the cause thereof, hereafter
occurring, shall be filled in the manner and for the term prescribed by the
law governing borough planning commissions in force at the time of the happening
of such vacancies; provided, further, that at any time Borough Council shall
have authority to create a Borough Planning Department and to assign or appoint
personnel thereto, to perform such functions of planning agencies, in the
nature of administration and research as the Council may specify.