[Amended 2-6-2008 by Ord.
No. 1069; 2-16-2011 by Ord. No. 1101; 2-1-2012 by Ord. No. 1114; 12-3-2014 by Ord. No. 1135]
A Borough Planning Commission composed of five
members, appointed in the manner provided by law, is hereby created
and established in and for the Borough of Waynesboro. The said Borough
Planning Commission shall exercise all the powers and perform all
the duties vested by law in planning agencies for boroughs, subject
to the authority of the Borough, by ordinance, to create a Borough
Planning Department in the future and to allocate such powers and
duties between the said Commission and the said Department. Provided,
the persons constituting the Borough Planning Commission now functioning
in the Borough, as created by Ordinance No. 523, shall constitute
the Planning Commission hereby created and established, and nothing
in this chapter shall affect the tenure of any member of the present
Planning Commission, but all vacancies occurring on the present Planning
Commission regardless of the cause and/or reason thereof shall not
be filled until the Planning Commission is composed of five members.
Thereafter, any vacancy occurring for any cause and/or reason thereof
shall be filled in accordance with the provisions of the applicable
law governing planning agencies in boroughs in effect at the time
of the occurrence of such vacancy.