[Adopted 10-21-1974 by Ord. No. 959 (Ch. 1, Part 3C, of the 1996 Code
of Ordinances)]
The Council of the Borough of Sewickley finds and therefore
declares that it is necessary that an adequate public ambulance and
related emergency health service be established and operated for the
benefit and preservation of the public health, comfort, convenience
and general welfare and the increase of the prosperity of the inhabitants
of the Borough of Sewickley, and that such service can be most efficiently
and economically furnished by means of an intercommunity municipal
authority jointly sponsored by the Township of Aleppo, the Township
of Leet and the Boroughs of Bell Acres, Edgeworth, Glenfield, Haysville,
Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights and Sewickley Hills
and incorporated under the applicable laws of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania for the express purpose of supplying such service to
all the inhabitants of said municipalities.
It is therefore the joint desire and intention of the Townships
of Aleppo and Leet and the Boroughs of Bell Acres, Edgeworth, Glenfield,
Haysville, Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights and Sewickley
Hills, all municipal corporations of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
and all situate in the County of Allegheny, to organize an authority
under the Municipality Authorities Act of 1945, designated as Act
No. 164, approved May 2, 1945, together with all supplements and amendments
thereto, for the purpose of exercising and enjoying all of the powers
conferred by said Act, its supplements and amendments, except as otherwise
specifically provided in the proposed Articles of Incorporation hereinafter
set forth.[1]
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Editor's Note: The Municipality Authorities Act of 1945 (53
P.S. § 301 et seq.) was repealed by Act 22 of 2001 (June 19,
2001, P.L. 287, No. 22). See now the Municipality Authorities Act,
53 Pa.C.S.A. § 5601 et seq.
The name of the proposed Authority shall be the "Quaker Valley
Ambulance Authority."
The proposed articles are as follows:
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Joint Municipal Authority
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Articles of Incorporation
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To the Secretary of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
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In compliance with the Municipality Authorities Act of 1945,
its supplements and amendments, the Townships of Aleppo and Leet and
the Boroughs of Bell Acres, Edgeworth, Glenfield, Haysville, Leetsdale,
Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley Heights and Sewickley Hills, all municipal
corporations of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, and all situate
in the County of Allegheny, pursuant to identical ordinances duly
adopted by the respective municipal authorities of all said municipalities,
hereby signify their joint desire and intention to form an Authority
under said Act and do therefore hereby certify as follows:
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A.
The
name of the Authority shall be "Quaker Valley Ambulance Authority."
B.
This
Authority is formed under the Municipality Authorities Act of 1945,
its supplements and amendments.
C.
No
other authority or joint authority organized under the Municipalities
Authorities Act of 1945, its supplements and amendments, or under
the Act approved June 28, 1935, as amended, is in existence in or
for the incorporating municipalities named herein, except as follows:
[Here followed a list of authorities in existence in the incorporating
municipalities at the time of enactment of this article.]
D.
The
purpose of the Authority is to provide ambulance and related equipment
and facilities and to furnish ambulance and other related emergency
health services to the inhabitants of a primary service area consisting
of the Townships of Aleppo and Leet and the Boroughs of Bell Acres,
Edgeworth, Glenfield, Haysville, Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley, Sewickley
Heights and Sewickley Hills, to the inhabitants of adjoining political
subdivisions or areas who may require or desire such services, and
to other persons who may require or desire such services while temporarily
within such service area. For such purpose, the Authority shall have
and exercise all powers granted by law, except the following:
(1)
The Authority shall not undertake any project other than the providing
of ambulance and other related emergency health services.
(2)
Total bonded indebtedness of the Authority shall not at any time
exceed the sum of $100,000 without the prior approval of not less
than eight of the incorporating municipalities.
E.
In
addition to all other reports required by law to be filed or published
by it, the Authority shall prepare a report of its fiscal affairs
for each calendar quarter of its operation and shall file a copy thereof
with each of the incorporating municipalities within 30 days following
the last day of each such quarter.
F.
The
respective names of the incorporating municipalities are:
G.
The
names and addresses of the municipal authorities of each of the incorporating
municipalities are as follows: [Here followed the names and addresses
of the officers of the incorporating municipalities.]
H.
The
Board of the Authority to be formed pursuant to these Articles shall
consist of 11 members, each of whom, except for those who shall be
members of the first Board of the Authority, shall be appointed for
terms of five years each.
I.
One
member of the Board of the Authority shall be appointed by the governing
body of each of the several incorporating municipalities.
J.
The
names and addresses of members of the first Board of the Authority,
the municipality by which each such member has been appointed and
the dates of expiration of their respective terms are as follows:
[Here followed the names, addresses, terms of office and name of the
appointing municipality of the first members of the Authority Board.]
K.
Whenever
a vacancy has occurred or is about to occur by reason of the expiration
of the term of any member, the incorporating municipality which appointed
the member whose term has expired or is about to expire shall appoint
a successor member for a full term of five years.
Until such time as all of the incorporating municipalities shall
otherwise provide by resolution, the members of the Board of the Authority
shall receive no compensation for their services as Board members;
provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall be deemed to
prohibit the payment of compensation as authorized by § 7(C)
of the aforesaid Municipalities Authorities Act of 1945, as amended,
to a member of such Board for services rendered as an officer of the
Authority.
A.
Organization
and start-up expenses. In order to fund the proposed Authority with
sufficient moneys to cover incorporation, organization and start-up
expenses, the Borough of Sewickley hereby assumes, as its fair share
of such expenses, the payment of a per capita assessment of $0.16
and, in discharge of such commitment, does hereby appropriate the
sum of $905.60, the same to be paid to or for the account of said
Authority from time to time and in such amounts as the Borough Council
may by resolution or motion authorize; provided, however, that the
other incorporating municipalities shall by like appropriations have
committed themselves to the payment of such initial expenses in the
following respective portions and amounts, viz: [Here followed the
amount each township or borough provided to the cost of operating
the Ambulance Authority.]
B.
Capital
funds and operating expenses. In order to fund the proposed Authority
with sufficient moneys to cover capital expenditures for equipment
and housing and to cover the operating expenses of such Authority,
the Borough of Sewickley hereby promises and agrees with the Townships
of Aleppo and Leet and the Boroughs of Bell Acres, Edgeworth, Glenfield,
Haysville, Leetsdale, Osborne, Sewickley Heights and Sewickley Hills
that this Borough will, from time to time and to the extent and in
the manner provided by law, appropriate from general funds or from
funds derived from special levy the same portion of the aggregate
capital expenditures and operating expenses of such Authority as the
population of this Borough of Sewickley bears to the aggregate population
of the Authority's primary service area. For all computations
required to be made hereunder, the term "population," unless otherwise
agreed by all of the incorporating municipalities, shall mean the
total number of inhabitants of this Borough or of such primary service
area as reported in the then most recent enumeration thereof by the
United States Bureau of the Census.
Notwithstanding any express or implied provision hereof to the
contrary, the Authority shall fix and collect reasonable fees or charges
for its services from recipients or users of such services who are
not residents of the Authority's primary service area and, should
additional revenue be required to defray the full cost of the aforesaid
capital expenditures and operating expenses, the Authority may fix
and collect reasonable fees or charges for its services from recipients
or users thereof who are residents of such primary service area.
