All persons elected to any Township office shall,
before entering the duties of their office, take and subscribe an
oath or affirmation, before such person having authority to administer
oaths, to support the Constitution of the United States and of the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and to perform the duties of their offices
with fidelity. A copy of such oath or affirmation shall be filed with
the Township Manager.
[Amended 12-8-1988 by Ord. No. 565]
Any person violating any of the provisions of Article IX, entitled "Prohibitions and Conflicts of Interest," § 901, entitled "Prohibited Activities," of the Home Rule Charter shall, upon conviction, be guilty of a summary offense and be sentenced to pay a fine not to exceed the maximum fine of $600 plus costs of prosecution and, in default of payment of such costs and prosecution, imprisonment for a term not exceeding 30 days; provided, however, that if the District Justice determines that the defendant is without the financial means to pay the fines and costs immediately or in a single remittance, such defendant shall be permitted to pay the fines or costs in installments and over such periods of time as the District Justice deems to be just.
A.
The Board of Supervisors and the Zoning Hearing Board
shall each have the power to conduct inquiries and investigations
in aid of the exercise of their powers and performance of their duties.
B.
The Board of Supervisors and the Zoning Hearing Board
shall have the power to compel the attendance of witnesses and the
production of documents and other evidence at investigative hearings,
and for that purpose, the presiding officer of the Board of Supervisors
or of the Zoning Hearing Board may issue or cause to be issued subpoenas,
served as provided by law.
C.
The appropriate officers, as listed in Subsection B hereof, shall, at any hearing, have the power to administer oaths.
D.
If any person shall refuse or neglect to obey any
subpoena, that person shall, upon conviction thereof at a summary
proceeding, be sentenced to pay a fine not to exceed $300 and, in
default of the payment of such fines and costs, shall be imprisoned
for a period not to exceed 30 days.
E.
If any person shall refuse or neglect to obey a subpoena,
the officer or board issuing the same may, by petition, apply to the
Court of Common Pleas of the County of Montgomery for its subpoena
to compel the attendance of such person before the officer, board
or the court. Under failure to attend, the Township Solicitor shall
request that such person be held in contempt of court and be punished
therefor.
F.
No person subpoenaed, as aforesaid, shall be required
to respond to the same until mileage and witness fees, equal to those
then established by law, shall have first been furnished to the witness.
Whitemarsh Township shall follow the Municipal
Records Retention and Disposition Schedule approved by the Local Government
Records Committee pursuant to the Municipal Records Act of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania.[1] All records of the Township shall be preserved for such
period of time as may be designated in said schedule for each particular
kind and character of municipal public record.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 Pa.C.S.A. § 1381
et seq.
Whenever any time established for the taking
of an action expires on a Saturday, Sunday or on a Township-designated
legal holiday, such time shall not expire on said day but shall expire
on the next business day.
There shall be a Township Seal which shall contain
the name of the Township and the word "Seal," which shall be in the
custody of the Secretary/Manager. The official acts of the Supervisors
shall be authenticated with the Seal and shall have the same effect
when used for such authentication as the seal of a notary public.
The following chapters of the Code of the Township
of Whitemarsh are hereby repealed, except, insofar as the provisions
of this chapter continue any provisions of such chapter, such provisions
of this chapter shall be deemed a continuation of such provisions
otherwise repealed hereby:
Should any section or provision of this chapter
be declared by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such
decision shall not affect the validity of the chapter as a whole or
any part thereof.
This chapter shall become effective on the third
of January 1983.
