[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Supervisors of the Township of
East Allen 5-19-2005 by Ord. No. 2005-5.
Amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Solid waste — See Ch. 197.
The Supervisors of East Allen Township hereby signifies its intention
and desire to organize an Authority under the provisions of the Municipality
Authorities Act of 1945 (the Act of May 1945, P.L. 382),[1] as amended, and to do so in allegiance with four other municipalities,
those of Allen, Lehigh, Moore and Bushkill.
[1]
Editor's Note: Said Act was repealed 2001, P.L. 287, No. 22.
See now 53 Pa. C.S.A. § 5601 et seq.
The Chairman of the Board of Supervisors and the Secretary of the Board
of Supervisors are hereby authorized and directed to execute, on behalf of
the East Allen Township, Articles of Incorporation for said Authority substantially
in the following form.[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: The Articles of Incorporation are on file in the
Township offices.
The Authority shall be for the purpose of acquiring, holding, constructing,
improving, maintaining and operating, owning or leasing, either in the capacity
of lessor or lessee, land, facilities and equipment necessary to implement
a regional yard waste recycling program and to create a yard waste facility
to provide yard waste recycling to the member municipalities.
The first members of the Board of said Authority named to represent
this Township in the Articles of Incorporation set forth above are hereby
specifically appointed members of said Board on behalf of this Township for
the terms of office set after their respective name, which term shall commence
on the date of appointment as shall be computed from May 1, 2005.
The proper officers of this Township are hereby directed, as required
by the said Municipality Authorities Act of 1945, as amended, to cause a notice
of this chapter and of the intention to file with the Secretary of the Commonwealth
said Articles of Incorporation to be published one time in the Northampton
County Reporter, a legal periodical at Northampton County, Pennsylvania, and
one time in the Morning Call, a newspaper published and of general circulation
in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, to file with the Secretary of the Commonwealth
the Articles of Incorporation, together with the required proofs of publication
of notice of this chapter and notice of intention to file the Articles of
Incorporation, together with a certified copy of this chapter, and to execute
and perform any and all official acts and to pay the fees and costs necessary
and appropriate to affect the incorporation of the Authority.
