[Amended 7-7-1997 by Ord. No. 604]
There be and there hereby is created a recreation board to be
known as the "Sellersville Park and Recreation Board," which shall
consist of nine persons, citizens of the Borough of Sellersville,
to be appointed by said Borough Council, each to serve for a term
of five years, and one or two or three, as the case may be, to be
appointed at the first meeting of the Borough Council of each and
every year hereafter.
Said Recreation Board for and on behalf of the Borough Council
of the Borough of Sellersville shall have all the powers granted to
such recreation boards by the Pennsylvania Borough Code and shall have full charge of and supervise the use and
control of any and all lands that may now or hereafter be dedicated
for park or recreation purposes by said Borough, whether the same
be owned or leased by said Borough. It shall have the power and authority
to receive and accept lands, property and money contributed, leased
or sold to said Borough for park purposes by any individual, firm,
corporation or municipal subdivision; provided, however, that no gift,
sale or lease of land or property, other than money, be accepted by
it without the approval of the Borough Council first had and that
no gift, loan or use of money be accepted without such approval unless
the same be made absolutely and unconditionally.
It shall, from time to time and at least semiannually, make
full report of its activities to the Borough Council, together with
such recommendations which it may desire to make.
It shall enter into no written or oral agreements or contracts
for or on behalf of the Borough or which may in any way involve the
expenditure of funds by said Borough without the approval of the Borough
Council first had. It may, however, expend, in a manner to be determined
by it for the maintenance or improvement of any lands now owned, leased
or possessed by said Borough, or such as may hereafter be purchased,
leased or possessed for park or recreation purposes, such sums as
may be contributed to it or appropriated to it by the Borough Council
for that purpose.
It shall appoint such officers and committees as may best enable
it to exercise its powers, meet at least bimonthly and govern its
proceedings by such rules, regulations or bylaws which it may adopt,
the officers so elected reporting regularly to the Borough Council.
Said Sellersville Park and Recreation Board is hereby designated
to act as the Sellersville Shade Tree Commission, and all of the rights,
duties and powers of the Shade Tree Commission as established in the
Pennsylvania Borough Code are hereby conferred on the Sellersville Recreation Board,
subject, however, to the provisions of this chapter concerning contracts
and expenditures.