The Board shall appoint a Township Solicitor at the organizational
meeting each year and shall fix the compensation for serving the Board
as needed and required. The Township Solicitor shall be a person learned
in the law and with at least five years' experience in active
legal practice in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Board may remove the Township Solicitor at any time with
or without cause.
The Township Solicitor may, from time to time, perform his/her
duties by delegation of authority to persons acting as his/her agents.
The Township Solicitor shall be the chief legal officer of the
Township. He/she or his/her representative learned in the law shall
attend all stated meetings of the Board. The Township Solicitor, when
directed or requested to do so, shall prepare or approve such bonds,
obligations, contracts, leases, conveyances, ordinances and assurances
to which the Township may be a party; he/she shall commence and prosecute
all actions brought by the Township for or on account of any of the
estates, rights, trusts, privileges, claims or demands, as well as
defend all actions or suits against the Township, or any officer thereof,
wherein or whereby any of the estates, rights, privileges, trusts,
ordinances or accounts of the Township may be brought in question
before any court in the Commonwealth, and shall do every professional
act incident to the office which he/she may be authorized or required
to do by the Board or by any resolution. The Solicitor shall, whenever
required by the Board, furnish the Board with an opinion in writing
upon any question of law which may be submitted by any of them in
their official capacity.
