The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, by Act 62 of 1972, P.L. 184, as amended, has granted to municipalities the right and power to adopt
home rule charters or one of several optional plans of government
and to exercise the powers and authority of local self-government
subject to certain restrictions and limitations, providing procedures
for adopting and defining the effect thereof. The citizens of the
Township of Lower Saucon, have elected on November 6, 1973, to adopt
an optional plan of government and to be governed under the Council-Manager
plan beginning January 5, 1976, and this chapter is hereby adopted
to effectuate this change and to provide the citizens of Lower Saucon
Township with a progressive, efficient and economical government.
It is the purpose of this chapter, in keeping with the Home Rule Charter
and Optional Plans Law, to permit the broadest power of local government consistent
with the constitutions of the United States and of the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania, with the Home Rule Charter and Optional Plans Law
itself and with general law; and its provisions shall be read and
interpreted in the light of such purpose.
This chapter shall be known and cited as the
"Administrative Code of the Township of Lower Saucon, 1976."