[Ord. No. 125, 10/1/1990]
There is hereby created and established an expanded Zoning Hearing
Board to be composed of five members, appointed as provided by law
and pursuant to the authority granted by the Pennsylvania Municipalities
Planning Code, the Act of October 4, 1978, P.L. 990, No. 203, Section
1, as amended and re-enacted by the Act of December 21, 1998, P.L.
1329, No. 170, Section 80 et seq., 53 P.S. § 10903.
[Ord. No. 125, 10/1/1990]
The members of the Zoning Hearing Board shall be appointed by
the Board of Supervisors for the Township of Amity for a term of five
years following such an appointment, such term to be so fixed that
the term of office of one member of the Zoning Hearing Board shall
expire annually. Notwithstanding the aforesaid, the term of office
of the three members making up the Zoning Hearing Board on the date
immediately prior to the effective date of this Subpart shall continue
in office until their term would expire as under the prior Ordinance
and law. Further, notwithstanding the appointment for a specific term
of office, a Zoning Hearing Board member may remain in such office
at the discretion of the Board of Supervisors until a successor qualifies
or is appointed and, further, the Board of Supervisors may remove
any member of the Zoning Hearing Board at their pleasure and discretion
for failure to perform the duties and obligations of a member of such
Zoning Hearing Board.
[Ord. No. 125, 10/1/1990]
The members of the Zoning Hearing Board shall serve and perform
such functions as are established by the Pennsylvania Municipalities
Planning Code and the Amity Township Ordinance creating a Zoning Hearing
Board and such additional functions, duties, obligations or services
as may be established from time to time by directive and resolution
of the Board of Supervisors.
[Ord. No. 125, 10/1/1990]
Nothing herein shall be construed as abrogating, negating or
limiting the authority of the Zoning Hearing Board or its members
as permitted by law with reference to either applications now pending
before the Zoning Hearing Board or applications and decisions previously
rendered.
[Ord. No. 125, 10/1/1990]
If any sentence, clause, section or part of this Subpart is
for any reason found to be unconstitutional, illegal or invalid, such
defect shall not effect or impair any of the remaining provisions
or parts of this Subpart, it being the intention of the Board of Supervisors
that this Subpart would have been adopted and such unconstitutional,
illegal or invalid sentence, clause, section or part thereof not been
included herein.
[Ord. No. 125, 10/1/1990]
All ordinances or parts of ordinances which are inconsistent
herewith are hereby repealed, however the ordinance creating and establishing
the Zoning Hearing Board as originally constituted by a three member
Board is specifically re-enacted with the exception of the expansion
of the Zoning Hearing Board membership from three members to five
members.
