[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of Canonsburg 11-1-1988 as Ch. 1, Part 5, of the 1988 Code. Amendments noted where applicable.]
Pursuant to authority granted to municipalities in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania by the Act known and cited as the "Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code," approved July 31, 1968, effective January 1, 1969, P.L. 805, Art. I, Section 101 et seq. (53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.), a Borough Planning Commission composed of seven members, appointed in the manner provided by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code, is hereby created and established in and for the Borough of Canonsburg, Washington County, Pennsylvania, provided that the persons constituting the Borough Planning Commission now functioning in the Borough of Canonsburg shall constitute the Planning Commission hereby created, and nothing in this chapter shall affect the tenure of said present Borough Planning Commission, but all vacancies hereafter existing or occurring in said Planning Commission, regardless of the cause thereof, shall be filled in accordance with the provisions of the law governing planning commissions in boroughs or municipalities at the time of the occurrence of said vacancy.
The Borough Planning Commission shall, in the Borough of Canonsburg, perform all the duties and exercise the powers vested in planning commissions by the Pennsylvania Municipalities Planning Code.[1]
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Editor's Note: See 53 P.S. § 10101 et seq.