[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Commissioners of the Township
of Lower Moreland 3-16-1977 by Ord. No. 259. Amendments noted where
applicable.]
A Township Planning Commission, composed of not fewer than six
members nor more than nine members, as the Board of Commissioners
may from time to time designate by resolution, who shall be appointed
in the manner provided by law, is hereby created and established in
and for the Township of Lower Moreland.
Said Township Planning Commission may exercise all the powers
and shall perform all the duties vested by law in planning agencies
for townships of the first class, provided that the individuals comprising
the Township Planning Commission now functioning in the Township shall
constitute the Planning Commission hereby created and established
until a resolution is adopted by the Township Commissioners changing
the number thereof.
A.
Nothing
in this chapter shall affect the tenure of any member of the present
Planning Commission, but all vacancies hereafter occurring in said
Planning Commission, regardless of the cause thereof, shall be filled
according to the provisions of the law governing planning agencies
in the townships of the first class at the time of the occurrence
of such vacancy.
B.
At
all times there shall be at least one resident from each ward in Lower
Moreland Township serving as a member of the Township Planning Commission,
and, in the event that a vacancy occurs which results in a ward being
unrepresented, such vacancy shall be filled promptly.
