[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
North East 12-4-1967 by Ord. No. 547. Amendments noted where applicable.]
The Borough of North East hereby creates a recreation commission
to be hereafter known and designated as "North East Recreation Commission."
A.
North East Recreation Commission may maintain, regulate and operate
public parks, parkways, playgrounds, play fields, swimming pools,
public baths, bathing places, indoor recreation centers and gymnasiums,
hereinafter called "recreation places" within the Borough of North
East or in the adjacent Township of North East or in any other township.
B.
North East Recreation Commission may jointly maintain, regulate and
operate recreation places with a recreation commission created by
the adjacent Township of North East and the School District of the
Borough of North East and the School District of the Township of North
East.
North East Recreation Commission shall consist of a minimum
of five and a maximum of nine persons. Two of the members may be members
or appointees of the School Board of the School District of the Borough
of North East. The Borough members of the Commission shall be appointed
by the Borough Council and shall serve no longer than five years.
Terms of the members shall be staggered in such a manner that at least
one expires annually. Members of such Commissions shall serve without
compensation. Vacancies in such Commission occurring otherwise than
by expiration of term shall be filled for the unexpired term in the
same manner as original appointments.
The members of the North East Recreation Commission shall elect
their own Chairman and secretary and select all other necessary officers
to serve for a period of one year. North East Recreation Commission
shall keep a record of its resolution, transactions, findings and
determinations, which record shall be a public record.
