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Home rule municipalities in Pennsylvania enjoy the opposite situation (i.e., they may govern themselves except where expressly forbidden by state law), and are governed according to their unique home rule charter rather than one of the above codes. While most home rule charter municipalities continue to reference their previous forms of ...
The Pennsylvania Code is a publication of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, listing all rules, regulations, and other administrative documents from the Government of Pennsylvania. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Citation
An authority can be organized by any county, city, town, borough, township, or school district of the Commonwealth, acting singly or jointly with another municipality. An authority is established by ordinance by one or more municipalities. The governing bodies of the parent local unit or units appoint the members of the authority's board.
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The following is a list of the 70 counties of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.The city of Philadelphia is coterminous with Philadelphia County, the municipalities having been consolidated in 1854, and all remaining county government functions having been merged into the city after a 1951 referendum.
The township is drained entirely by tributaries of the Grand River, including the Crockery Creek in the eastern portion. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area of 33.4 square miles (87 km 2), of which 32.7 square miles (85 km 2) is land and 0.7 square miles (1.8 km 2) (1.98%) is water.
The per capita income for the township was $18,719. Approximately 2.2% of families and 4.4% of the population were living below the poverty line, including 5.8% of those who were under the age of eighteen and 1.9% of those who were aged sixty-five or older.
As of the census [4] of 2000, there were 2,406 people, 832 households, and 648 families residing in the township. The population density was 135.1 inhabitants per square mile (52.2/km 2). There were 914 housing units at an average density of 51.3 per square mile (19.8/km 2).