(a) 
Purposes and Content. Council shall adopt and maintain in effect an Administrative Code to implement the provisions of this Charter. The Administrative Code shall provide for the following matters in reasonable detail and in a manner consistent with the applicable provisions of this Charter and of the Constitutions and laws of the United States and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania:
(i) 
The organization and procedures of Council;
(ii) 
The establishment, structures, duties, powers and procedures of such administrative departments, commissions and authorities as Council may authorize;
(iii) 
The duties and powers of the Manager and other employees and agents of the Town;
(iv) 
The procedures for the conduct of the business and affairs of the Town;
(v) 
Such other matters, if any, as may be deemed by Council to be appropriate. Council may, at its discretion, from time to time adopt by ordinance additional and more detailed provisions relating to the above-listed matters, consistent with the provisions of the Administrative Code.
(b) 
Adoption. Council shall adopt the Administrative Code, by ordinance, within one (1) year following the first Organization Meeting of Council (under Section 401(a)).
(c) 
Amendment. The Administrative Code may be amended by an ordinance adopted under the same procedural requirements as are specified in Section 505 for its adoption.
Council shall adopt and maintain in effect a Personnel Code as provided for in Section 1101. The Personnel Code shall be adopted and may be amended by ordinance of Council, in accordance with the applicable provisions of Section 505.
Official actions of Council may be taken by ordinance, resolution or simple motion. All actions described in Section 504 shall be taken by ordinance adopted under Section 505. All ordinances and resolutions shall be presented for action by Council in writing, but simple motions may be made orally. In all other respects, the forms of action by Council shall be determined in accordance with Section 406 and other applicable provisions of this Charter and of the Administrative Code.
Any and all actions of Council on the following subjects shall be taken, if at all, in the form of an ordinance:
(a) 
The adoption or amendment of an Administrative Code under Section 501;
(b) 
The adoption or amendment of a Personnel Code under Sections 502 and 1101;
(c) 
The creation, alteration, or abolition of any department, commission, authority, office or agency of the Town;
(d) 
The provision of any fine or other penalty, or the establishment of any requirement or prohibition for the violation of which a fine or other penalty may be imposed;
(e) 
The levying of taxes or assessments;
(f) 
The granting, renewing, amendment or extension of any franchise or services to be provided in or for the Town or its citizens or others;
(g) 
The establishment of rates charged for any utility or other services to be supplied by the Town;
(h) 
The borrowing of money;
(i) 
The conveyance, leasing, exclusive licensing or other disposition or encumbering of any land or other property of the Town (except for the sale of land or other property by competitive bidding in a tax sale);
(j) 
The establishment or changing of a zoning map or zoning district or of regulations governing any other matter pertaining to zoning uses, subdivision requirements, site plan approvals, excavation permits and/or building restrictions (see Article IX);
(k) 
The undertaking of any substantial contract or other commitment of the Town with respect to the sharing or coordination of municipal functions or services with other governmental entities or agencies;
(l) 
The adoption or amendment of a budget (see Article XII);
(m) 
The adoption of requirements or procedures for the letting of public contracts of the Town (see Article XIII);
(n) 
The authorization of any contract in excess of an amount equivalent to one-quarter of one percent (1/4%) of the previous year's budget of the Town, except for those contracts awarded to the lowest responsible bidder after advertisement in the official Town newspaper once a week for two successive weeks with the first advertisement to be published not less than ten (10) days prior to the date fixed for the opening of bids. (Ord. 681. Approved by voters November 4, 1975.)
(o) 
The adoption of any regulation or procedure pertaining to police and fire protection (see Article X);
(p) 
Any increase in the compensation of members of Council;
(q) 
The amendment or repeal of any ordinance previously adopted.
(a) 
General Requisites. Each ordinance enacted by Council shall be numbered and shall contain the date of its enactment. Each ordinance shall be set forth verbatim in the minutes maintained in accordance with Section 404(a) of the meeting at which it is finally adopted or, alternatively, in a separate and official ordinance book maintained for that purpose. The substance of each ordinance having continuing significance shall be incorporated in a codification of ordinances as provided in Section 404(b). Each ordinance shall contain at the beginning a reasonably descriptive title and summary of its subject matter.
(b) 
Prior Notice and Publication. Except as is otherwise provided in Sections 505(f) and 505(g), a notice of each proposed ordinance to be considered and acted upon at any official meeting of Council shall be published in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town at least once, not more than ninety (90) days nor less than two (2) days prior to its final enactment. In addition, except as is otherwise provided in Section 505(f), such notice shall be conspicuously posted at appropriate locations in and in front of the municipal building throughout the period of at least seventy-two (72) hours prior to the scheduled time for the commencement of the meeting of Council at which the proposed ordinance is adopted. The notice required under the preceding two sentences need not contain the full text of the proposed ordinance, but it shall include the title and number of the proposed ordinance and a brief but sufficient description to provide reasonable notice of the proposed provisions and effect of that ordinance. Such notice may be provided in the form of an official agenda for the pertinent meeting of Council, if it contains the requisite information. A copy of the full proposed text of each such ordinance shall be made available for inspection and copying by any interested person during reasonable business hours in the municipal building, throughout the period of at least six (6) days prior to its final enactment. The Manager also shall maintain a mailing list of interested citizens and citizen groups to whom notices and/or copies of all proposed ordinances (or of designated types to be specified by them) shall be sent at reasonable times prior to their final enactment, at the request and at the reasonable expense of such citizens or groups; provided, however, that the validity of an ordinance shall not be affected in any way by any nonperformance of the requirements of this sentence.
Posting in front of the municipal building shall not be required provided a bulletin board for posting shall be maintained within the municipal building, be available for public inspection at all times and a notice as to the location of that bulletin board be posted at the front entrance of the municipal building. (Ord. 681. Approved by voters November 4, 1975.)
(c) 
Public Hearing. A public hearing at which interested citizens shall be given a reasonable opportunity to appear and to be heard with respect to a specific proposed ordinance, shall be held not more than sixty (60) days nor less than six (6) days prior to the enactment of any ordinance relating to the subject matters identified as items (a), (c), (e), (f), (g), (i), (j), (l), (n), or (p) under Section 504, except as is otherwise provided in Sections 505(f) and 505(g), in addition to any other instance in which a public hearing may be required by the Administrative Code or by any other applicable provision of law. Notice of the time and place of such public hearing shall be included in the notice of such proposed ordinance to be published and posted in accordance with Section 505(b); provided, however, that any hearing on a proposed ordinance involving a change in the zoning map or area classification of a zoning district shall be preceded by (i) the publication and posting of notice of that proposed ordinance and of the hearing thereon, in accordance with Section 505(b), at least ten (10) days in advance, and (ii) the conspicuous posting of notices thereof on the perimeter of the property to be rezoned, with at least one such notice to be posted on each public street abutting that property, throughout that ten (10) day period, and (iii) the mailing of notices thereof by registered mail to each owner of any of the property to be rezoned and of any other property abutting on or directly across a public street from the property to be rezoned. Any public hearing may be conducted by any two (2) or more members of Council designated for that purpose by Council.
(d) 
Notice and Publication after Enactment. Each ordinance shall be published, in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town, at least once as soon as is practicable after its final enactment. The full text of an ordinance need not be published if the title and a reasonably complete and descriptive summary notice of its provisions and effective date are published in accordance with the preceding sentence. In addition, an appropriate notice (but not necessarily the full text) of each enacted ordinance shall be conspicuously posted at appropriate locations in and in front of the municipal building for a period of at least thirty (30) days as soon as is practicable after its final enactment; and a copy of the full text shall be made available for inspection and copying by any interested person during reasonable business hours in the municipal building, within two (2) business days following its final enactment and at all times thereafter. The Manager also shall maintain a mailing list of interested persons or groups to whom copies of all enacted ordinances (or of designated types to be specified by them) shall be sent at reasonable times following their enactment, at the request and at the reasonable expense of such persons or groups; provided, however, that the validity of an ordinance shall not be affected in any way by any nonperformance of the requirements of this sentence.
Posting in front of the municipal building shall not be required provided a bulletin board for posting shall be maintained within the municipal building, be available for public inspection at all times and a notice as to the location of that bulletin board be posted at the front entrance of the municipal building. (Ord. 681. Approved by voters November 4, 1975.)
(e) 
Effective Date. Except as is otherwise provided in Section 505(f), the effective date of any ordinance shall be ten (10) days after the notice of the enactment thereof is published in a newspaper of general circulation in the Town under Section 505(d), unless a later effective date is provided for in the text of that ordinance or is required by the Administrative Code or any applicable provision of law. In the event that the publication of any enacted ordinance is prevented or delayed by a strike or other cause beyond the reasonable control of Council, that ordinance shall take effect ten (10) days after its enactment, unless a later effective date is provided for in the text of that ordinance or is required by the Administrative Code or any applicable provision of law.
(f) 
Emergency Actions. Any other provision of this Charter or of the Administrative Code to the contrary notwithstanding, and except as may be otherwise expressly provided by any other applicable provision of law, Council shall have the power in its discretion to waive all or any part of the requirements of Sections 505(b) through 505(e) of this Charter and any other notice or public hearing requirement or other procedural requirement of the Administrative Code, if all of the members of Council present and voting at any properly convened Emergency Meeting of Council under Section 401(d), reasonably determined such waiver to be necessary to permit Council to enact an emergency ordinance to protect or promote the public health and/or safety. Any emergency ordinance enacted pursuant to the waiver provisions of the preceding sentence shall be limited in its effectiveness to a duration of not more than ninety (90) days unless it shall have been confirmed or amended by another ordinance duly adopted in full compliance with the provisions of this Charter and of the Administrative Code and all other applicable provisions of law, and without any such waiver under this Section 505(f), within that period.
(g) 
Special Voting Requirements for the Enactment of Certain Types of Ordinances. The enactment, amendment or repeal of any ordinance of the following types shall require an affirmative vote of at least four (4) members of Council at an official meeting of Council, after having been specifically scheduled for final action at that meeting by a motion duly adopted at a previous meeting of Council:
(i) 
The Administrative Code;
(ii) 
Any increase in the compensation of members of Council; and
(iii) 
The zoning and other land use matters specified in Section 504(j).
(h) 
Amendment or Repeal. Any ordinance, including but not limited to any ordinance in effect on the effective date of this Charter, may be amended or repealed by, and only by, the adoption of another ordinance in accordance with the provisions of this Charter and the Administrative Code and all other applicable provisions of law.
Each resolution adopted by Council shall be numbered and shall contain the date of its enactment. Each such resolution shall be set forth verbatim or briefly summarized in the minutes of the meeting at which it is finally adopted, in accordance with Section 404(a), but any resolution may be adopted without compliance with any of the other notice requirements and other formalities specified for the enactment of an ordinance under the provisions of this Charter and of the Administrative Code. The full text of all resolutions shall be set forth in a separate and official resolution book.
The Secretary of Council or his designated representative, or the Town Manager, shall prepare and issue certifications of the enactment, terms and effectiveness of any one or more of the ordinances and/or resolutions of Council, upon the reasonable request of any interested persons. Council may at its discretion impose by ordinance or resolution a reasonable charge for the furnishing of such certifications.
Council may provide by ordinance for the imposition of penalties for the violation of any one or more of the duly enacted and effective ordinances of Council. Such penalties shall not exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) and/or thirty (30) days imprisonment for each violation, except to the extent to which the imposition of greater penalties shall be authorized by the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania applicable to any class of municipalities from time to time hereafter. Any ordinance may provide, with respect to continuing violations, that each day on which a violation exists may be regarded as a separate offense and may be punishable as such.