[Adopted 5-13-1992 by Ord. No. 130]
This is an article authorizing Maidencreek Township
Board of Supervisors to join with other local government units as
a member of the Pennsylvania Intergovernmental Risk Management Association
(the "Association") for the purpose of entering into an intergovernmental
contract to form a local government risk pool, to provide for joint
or cooperative action by members relative to their financial and administrative
resources for the purpose of providing risk management services and
risk sharing facilities to the members and to the members' employees,
and to defend and protect, in accordance with this agreement, any
member of the pool against liability as outlined in the appendix to
the intergovernmental contract.
The Association was formed in accordance with
the authorization contained in the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act
(1972 P.L. 762, No. 180),[1] initially by the Borough of Bath and Township of Moore.
[1]
Editor's Note: See 53 Pa.C.S.A. § 2301 et seq.
The Intergovernmental Cooperation Act provides
that any joining cooperation agreement shall be deemed in force as
to any municipality, when the same has been adopted by ordinance by
all cooperating municipalities.
