A. 
Pursuant to powers guaranteed by the Pennsylvania Constitution and granted by the General Assembly of Pennsylvania in the Home Rule Charter and Optional Plans Law as codified at 53 Pa.C.S. § 2901 et seq., the residents of Bristol Township, Bucks County, have elected to be governed pursuant to the Optional Plan of Government designated as the Council-Manager Plan, commencing January 2, 2012.
B. 
This chapter is hereby adopted by the Council as the Administrative Code of the Township to effectuate such adoption and to provide the residents of Bristol Township, a progressive, efficient, economical and responsive government.
C. 
It is the purpose and intent of this chapter, in keeping with the Home Rule Charter and Optional Plans Law, to permit the broadest powers of local self-government consistent with the Constitution of the United States and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and with the Charter Law itself; and the provisions of this chapter are intended to be read and interpreted in accordance with such purpose.
This chapter shall be known and may be cited as the “Administrative Code of the Township of Bristol, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.”