The Borough of Prospect Park does hereby signify
intention to organize an Authority, together with the Townships of
Springfield, Ridley and Nether Providence and the Boroughs of Swarthmore,
Rutledge, Morton and Ridley Park, under the provisions of the Acts
of Assembly and the amendments and supplements thereto.
The proper officers are hereby authorized and
directed to organize the said Authority in conjunction with the proper
officers of the aforesaid townships and boroughs and, together with
the aforesaid officers, to execute the Articles of Incorporation and
to file the same with the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania,
as provided by law.
The said Articles of Incorporation shall be as follows:
A. The name of the Authority shall be "Central Delaware
County Authority."
B. The Authority is formed under the provisions of the
Acts of Pennsylvania--No. 191, Session of 1935, and No. 200 of the
Session of 1937.
C. That no other Authority organized under the Municipal
Authority Act of 1937 (Act No. 200), nor under the Act approved December
27, 1933 (Special Session--1933--P.L. 114), is in existence in or for the incorporating municipalities.
D. The names of the incorporating municipalities, together
with the names and addresses of its municipal officers, are as follows:
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The Township of Springfield
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The Township of Ridley
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The Township of Nether Providence
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The Borough of Swarthmore
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The Borough of Rutledge
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The Borough of Morton
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The Borough of Prospect Park
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The Borough of Ridley Park
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E. The names and addresses and terms of office of the
first members of the Board of the said Authority are as follows.
F. Commissioners or Councils, as the case may be, of
each municipality creating the said Joint Authority shall appoint
one member of the Board. The Townships of Ridley and Nether Providence
shall appoint one member each for a period of four years; the Borough
of Swarthmore and the Township of Springfield, for a period of three
years; the Boroughs of Ridley Park and Prospect Park, for a period
of two years; and the Boroughs of Rutledge and Morton, for a period
of one year; and thereafter the said Commissioners or Councils, as
the case may be, shall, at a meeting held not later than one month
prior to January 1 in each year in which a vacancy occurs in the office
filled by that municipality, appoint, as a member of the Board, a
citizen of that municipality for a term of four years, to succeed
the member whose term expires on January 1 next succeeding. All vacancies
shall be filled by the governing body of the municipality whose appointee
has vacated his office.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF the municipalities appointed
herein have hereunto caused to be written their respective names,
signed by their presiding officer and attested by their Secretary,
or Clerk, this 13th day of October A.D. 1937.
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