[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of New Freedom 12-19-1983 by Ord. No. 1983-8 (Ch. 1, Part 3C, § 351, of the 1983 Code of Ordinances). Amendments noted where applicable.]
A Borough Planning Commission, composed of five members, appointed in the manner provided by law, is created and established in and for the Borough. The Borough Planning Commission shall perform all of the duties and may exercise any and all of the powers vested by law in planning agencies in boroughs, provided the persons constituting the Borough Planning Commission now functioning in the Borough shall constitute the Planning Commission created in this section and nothing in this section shall affect the tenure of the present Borough Planning Commission. All vacancies, afterward occurring in the Planning Commission, regardless of the cause, shall be filled in accordance with the provisions of the law governing planning agencies in boroughs at the time of the occurrence of the vacancy.