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Vacancy
Board
Section
407 of the PA Second Class Township Code outlines the process
and procedures for appointing Township citizens to vacancies
that may occur in the various elected offices serving the
Township. If the electors of West Hanover Township fail
to choose a supervisor, tax collector or auditor, or if any
person elected to any office fails to serve in the office or
if a vacancy occurs in the office by death, resignation,
removal from the township or otherwise, the Board of
Supervisors may appoint a successor who is an elector of the
township and has resided in that township continuously for at
least one year prior to their appointment, and, upon their
failure to make the appointment within thirty (30) days after
the vacancy occurs, the vacancy shall be filled within fifteen
additional days by the Vacancy Board.
The
Vacancy Board consist of the board of supervisors and one
elector of the township, who is appointed by the Supervisors
at the board's organizational meeting each calendar year or as
soon after that as practical. As per the PA Second Class
Township Code, the individual appointed shall act as the
chairman of the vacancy board and shall proceed through the
appointment process.
Board Members
Meeting Times and Minutes
Meetings of the Vacancy Board are
set upon the occurrence of a vacancy.
MEETING MINUTES LINK Read
current and past meeting minutes here.
ROBERT's
RULES of ORDER - by General Henry M.
Robert
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