The President of the Board of Commissioners
is hereby authorized to execute an agreement on behalf of the Township
of Lower Merion, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, with the Borough
of Narberth, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, for the purposes and
objectives as hereinafter set forth.
[Amended 12-21-1983 by Ord. No. 2044]
The agreement shall become effective on January
1, 1981, and shall be for a term of three years; and with the additional
condition that unless either of the parties thereto shall at least
30 days before the expiration of the term of the agreement give written
notice of an intention to terminate the agreement at the expiration
of said term, then and in that case the agreement shall be renewed
and extended, for a further period of one year, subject to all the
terms and conditions therein contained, and subject to any amendments
to the agreement; and so on from year to year, unless and until either
party thereto shall give to the other 30 days' written notice of an
intention to terminate the agreement at the expiration of the then
current term. The township shall have the right to terminate the agreement
at any time if the borough shall at any time decrease its police manpower
level below its police manpower level which existed on January 1,
1977. A similar agreement dated November 16, 1977, is terminated as
of midnight December 31, 1980.
The purpose and objectives of the agreement
are for the furnishing of certain police, dog law and police communications
services by the township for the borough and the furnishing of fire
protection service by the borough in that portion of the Narberth
Fire District located within the township.
The borough shall pay yearly to the township,
for police, dog law and communications services, certain sums of money
as set forth in the agreement. All payments shall be made from the
tax revenues of the borough.
No special organizational structure is necessary
to implement the agreement, and it is not necessary to specially acquire,
manage or dispose of real or personal property.