The electors of a district or the electors of the Township at large may remove from office at a recall election the council member representing that district or the Township at large in the manner provided in this article.
A. 
A recall of a Council member shall be initiated upon petition, clearly designated as a recall petition and signed by registered electors comprising thirty (30) per cent of the registered electors of the district in the recall of a district Council member or the Township at large in the recall of a Council member at large.
B. 
Each elector signing a recall petition shall state his residence, election district and date of signing. Signatures on a recall petition may be on separate sheets, but each sheet shall have appended to it the affidavit of the circulator thereof not necessarily a signer of the petition, that to the best of the affiant's knowledge and belief the person whose signatures appear on the sheet are registered electors of the district or the Township at large, that they signed with full knowledge of the contents of the petition and that their residences are correctly given.
C. 
A recall petition shall be tendered for filing to the Board of Elections of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Upon tender to the Board of Elections, the petition shall be available for examination by any interested person. Within fifteen (15) days after tender of the petition, the Board of Elections shall pass upon the validity of the petition and the validity and number of signatures required thereon. No signature shall be counted as valid which is dated more than sixty (60) days prior to the date the petition is tendered for filing. The decision of the Board of Elections shall be subject to review by the Court of Common Pleas of Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, on appeal filed within thirty (30) days of the date of the decision of the Board of Elections.
The Board of Elections shall, within ten (10) days after accepting a recall petition for filing and determining its validity, notify the Council member named in the petition that the petition has been filed and determined as valid. Upon receipt of such notice, the Council member may appeal as provided herein, or resign from his office and thereupon the recall proceedings shall terminate.
A. 
If the Council member does not resign from office within twenty (20) days after receipt of notice from the Board of Elections, a recall election shall be arranged by said Board. The recall question shall be placed before the electors at the next regular election of any kind to be held not less than thirty (30) days nor more than one hundred sixty (160) days after the twenty (20) days have expired. A recall election shall be held in all respects in accordance with the provisions of the Pennsylvania Election Code relating to the conduct of special elections. The Council member may resign at any time prior to the recall election and thereupon the election shall not be held.
B. 
The question to be presented to each elector in a recall election shall be: "Shall _____ (name of council member) _____ be recalled and removed from the office of _____ (council member at large or council member from district) _____?" A provision shall be made for the elector to vote "yes" or "no" on the question. If a majority of the registered electors who vote on the question shall vote "yes" the Council member shall be deemed recalled and removed from office. Otherwise the Council member shall remain in office. The effective date of the removal from office shall be seven (7) days after the results of the election are certified by the Board of Elections, unless said date is postponed by order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
No person who has been removed from office by a recall election or who has resigned from office after a recall petition directed to him has been filed, shall be eligible for appointment to fill a vacancy in the office of a Council member for a period of four (4) years after his removal or resignation.
No recall petition shall be filed against a Council member within the first year of his office or within nine (9) months after an unsuccessful recall election against him, but a Council member who has been re-elected for a successive term shall be subject to recall also during the first year of that term.