[HISTORY: Adopted by the Borough Council of the Borough of
Pen Argyl 4-1-2014 by Ord. No.
679,[1] approved 4-1-2014.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Police Pension Fund — See Ch. 28.
[1]
Editor's Note: This ordinance also repealed former Ch.
26, consisting of Art. I, General Provisions, adopted 9-6-1960 by
Ord. No. 296, approved 9-6-1960; Art. II, Mutual Aid Agreement, adopted
11-6-1990 by Ord. No. 482, approved 11-6-1990; and Art. III, Fees,
adopted 9-3-2002 by Ord. No. 581, approved 9-3-2002.
The Borough of Pen Argyl shall join with the Plainfield Township
and the Borough of Wind Gap in accordance with the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental
Cooperation Act of December 19, 1996 (53 Pa.C.S.A. § 2301
et seq.), by entering into an agreement to provide for mutual police
protection within the municipal limits of each municipality, which
agreement shall be approved and adopted each municipality. The Charter
Agreement attached as Exhibit "A" shall be the controlling agreement
("charter" or "agreement").[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The Charter Agreement and amendments thereto
are on file in the Borough offices.
The new police department shall be known as the Slate Belt Regional
Police Department and shall be incorporated as a nonprofit corporation.
Said Slate Belt Regional Police Department shall have perpetual existence,
unless terminated sooner in accordance with the terms of its charter.
The Council of the Borough of Pen Argyl hereby expressly delegates
to the Slate Belt Regional Police Department those powers and duties
of a police department established pursuant to the applicable statute.
The Slate Belt Regional Police Department shall establish and operate
a police department for the purpose of providing protection to persons
and property within the boundaries of the Borough of Pen Argyl, Plainfield
Township, and the Borough of Wind Gap, in Northampton County, Pennsylvania.
The purpose and objectives of the agreement shall be to provide broader
and more comprehensive police protection and law enforcement services
on a more economical basis within the municipal limits of both municipalities
by the consolidation of said separate police departments into a new
joint police department to be known as the Slate Belt Regional Police
Department, which new consolidated Police Department shall provide
police protective services throughout the municipal limits of all
municipalities.
The total cost of operating and maintaining the consolidated
Slate Belt Regional Police Department is to be financed by annual
budget appropriations made by each participating municipality toward
such total cost in the manner and subject to the conditions as set
forth in the agreement.
The Slate Belt Regional Police Department is to be under the
general supervision and control of a joint board to be known as the
Slate Belt Regional Police Commission. The organization structure
of the consolidated Police Department shall be as provided in the
agreement.
The Slate Belt Regional Police Commission created pursuant to
this chapter shall be empowered to enter into contracts for the purchase
of property, equipment, materials and supplies and shall be authorized
to enter into contracts for policies of group insurance and employee
benefits, including social security, for its employees, subject to
the budgetary restrictions and other provisions contained in said
agreement, and shall have all other powers and authority as provided
in said agreement and not otherwise denied to it or withheld by the
laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Upon the effective date of the agreement authorized by this
chapter or at such time as the Slate Belt Regional Police Department
becomes operative as set forth in the said agreement, whichever shall
occur later, the existing Borough of Pen Argyl Police Department shall
be abolished.
