[Adopted 7-27-1993 by Ord. No. 6-1993]
West Goshen Township, by the adoption of this
article, evidences its intent to participate in Municipal Drug Task
Force activities in cooperation with the Office of the Attorney General
of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, which is designed to interdict
the illegal use of and trafficking in narcotics and other illegal
drugs and substances within its municipal boundaries and within the
municipal boundaries of nearby communities with which it is authorized
to cooperatively act pursuant to the Act.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 481
et seq.
West Goshen Township is hereby authorized to
enter into a Municipal Drug Task Force agreement with the Office of
the Attorney General and the Bureau of Narcotics Investigation and
Drug Control of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (the "agreement"),
subject to approval of the form and content of the agreement by the
Board of Supervisors. This agreement may, when approved by the Board
of Supervisors, include intergovernmental cooperative activities with
adjacent and nearby municipal governments as a part of a regional
effort to interdict illegal drug activities.
West Goshen Township is hereby authorized to
utilize the services of the West Goshen Township Police Department
for such Municipal Drug Task Force activities as are approved by the
Board of Supervisors, with the advice and consent of the West Goshen
Township Chief of Police, under the terms and conditions set forth
in the agreement and in compliance with the Municipal Police Jurisdiction
Act, Act of June 15, 1982, P.L. 512, No. 141, as amended, 42 Pa.C.S.A.
§ 8951 et seq.
Pursuant to the terms of the agreement, which,
upon its execution, shall be considered incorporated herein by reference,
West Goshen Township, acting through its Chief of Police, shall establish
appropriate procedures to comply with the agreement and relevant regulations,
direction and guidance from the Office of the Attorney General. The
agreement may be amended from time to time, subject to the approval
of the Board of Supervisors, which agreement, as amended, shall automatically
be incorporated as a part hereof without the necessity of amendment
of this article.
The term of the agreement authorized by this
article shall commence on the date it is completely executed by all
parties thereto and may be terminated by West Goshen Township and
any other party to the agreement at any time subject to 30 days' prior
written notice to the other parties to the agreement.
The purposes and objectives of this article
and the agreement authorized to be made and executed hereby include
region-wide coordination of municipal police activities for the purpose
of combating illegal narcotics, substance and drug, trafficking. The
agreement shall be financed with funds provided by the Office of the
Attorney General of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, subject to the
appropriation and availability of funds for Task Force purposes. West
Goshen Township shall have no financial responsibility or liability
to provide funds to finance activities of the Task Force or any of
its police officers participating in Task Force activities. Expenditure
of Township funds shall be solely within the discretion of the Board
of Supervisors.
West Goshen Township shall retain control and
responsibility over the management, activities, control and direction
of its police officer employees when involved in Municipal Drug Task
Force activities, and all such police officer employees shall remain
under the specific direction and control of the Chief of Police of
West Goshen Township except as he shall otherwise direct during operations
of the Task Force.
If any sentence, clause, section, or part 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,
sections or parts hereof. It is hereby declared as the intent of the
Board of Supervisors that this article would have been adopted had
such unconstitutional, illegal or invalid sentence, clause, section
or part thereof not been included herein.
This article shall be effective five days after
enactment as by law provided.
