[HISTORY: Adopted by the City of Council of the City of Chester 6-5-1981 of the 1978 Codified Ordinances. Amendments noted where applicable.]
PREAMBLE
In accordance with Article IX, Section 2, of the Pennsylvania Constitution and Act 62 (1972) of the General Assembly, the citizens of the City of Chester, by referendum in the Spring Primary 1980, adopt the following Home Rule Charter to establish a form of government to provide for the health, safety, and well-being of its citizens, to provide a government responsive to the citizens, to provide municipal services and facilities with a high degree of efficiency and economy, and to bring to the people of the City of Chester the greatest grant of local self-government powers that a municipality can have under the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.