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.