[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of Hilltown as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 7-10-1991 by Ord. No. 91-5]
Hilltown Township shall enter into an intergovernmental cooperation agreement with Silverdale Borough, a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, pursuant to Act 180, July 12, 1972, as amended, 53 P.S. § 481 et seq.,[1] under the terms of which the Borough of Silverdale delegates to Hilltown Township the duty and authority of providing police protection to the Borough of Silverdale and its residents.
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Editor’s Note: See now 53 Pa.C.S.A. § 2301 et seq.
The conditions of the agreement are that Hilltown Township shall provide complete police service to Silverdale Borough and that the Borough shall compensate the Township for such services at compensation rates to be determined between the parties. The operation and supervision of the police activities shall be exclusively the obligation of Hilltown Township.
The agreement shall continue initially for a term of one year and six months from July 1, 1991, and shall extend for further terms of one year each unless terminated by either party on 90 days’ notice.
The purpose and obligations of the agreement are to have a single police force providing service to both Silverdale Borough and Hilltown Township and that the agency providing this service shall be the Hilltown Township Police Department. The authority delegated to the Township by the Borough is the authority to maintain and operate a police force which provides police services in the Borough of Silverdale.
The manner and extent of financing the agreement is that Hilltown Township shall budget sufficient funds to finance a police department able to provide services to the Township and the Borough and that Silverdale Borough will pay the Township for the police services provided at least quarter annually.
The organizational structure necessary to implement the agreement is the Hilltown Township Police Department which is already in existence.
There is no need for property to be acquired, managed, licensed or disposed of to implement this agreement.
No entity which is an employer need be created to implement this agreement. The implementation will be done by Hilltown Township which is empowered to enter into contracts for policies of group insurance and employee benefits, including Social Security, for its employees.