[Adopted 7-16-2007 by Ord. No. 2007-4]
This article shall be known and may be cited as the "Special Fire Police Mutual Aid and Emergency Assistance Ordinance."
The background of this article and the legislative intention of the Board of Supervisors in enacting it are as follows:
A. 
Dickinson Township is a Pennsylvania second class township.
B. 
The Act of December 19, 1996, P.L. 1158, No. 177, referred to as the "Intergovernmental Cooperation Law," 53 Pa.C.S.A. § 2301, et seq., provides that local governments may jointly cooperate in the exercise or in the performance of their respective governmental functions, powers or responsibilities.
C. 
The use of special fire police to perform traffic and crowd control services and other necessary functions, whether within or outside the boundaries of the municipality by which they are confirmed, is governed by statutory authority at 35 P.S. § 1201, et seq.
D. 
The Board of Supervisors and the governing bodies of the County and participating municipalities recognize the desirability of sharing special fire police resources for both emergency and nonemergency events for the protection of the health, safety and welfare of all residents.
A. 
The conditions of membership, duration, purpose and objectives of the agreement, including the powers and scope of authority delegated therein, manner and extent of financing, organizational structure necessary to implement the agreement and manner in which real and personal property will be acquired, managed and disposed of are set forth in the master Intergovernmental Cooperation Agreement for Special Fire Police Mutual Aid and Emergency Assistance ("agreement"), a copy of which is attached to this article as Exhibit A and incorporated herein as if set forth in full.[1]
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Editor's Note: Said agreement is on file in the Township offices.
B. 
Any funds for the agreement may be appropriated by the Board of Supervisors as it shall determine, in its sole discretion, from time to time.
C. 
Real and personal property may be acquired, managed or disposed of under this article.
D. 
Each party has the power to enter into contracts for policies of group insurance and employee benefits, including social security, for all of their employees, including those whose duties further the purposes of the agreement.
The Chairman of the Board of Supervisors is hereby authorized to execute all documents and perform all actions necessary to cause the Township to enter the agreement.
If any sentence, clause, phrase or section of this article is for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality or invalidity shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, sections or parts of this article. It is hereby declared as the intention of the Board of Supervisors that this article would have been adopted had such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence, clause, phrase, section or part thereof not been included therein.
This article shall become effective as provided by law. The agreement shall be effective upon the effective date of the Intergovernmental Cooperation Ordinance last enacted by the parties.