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The Financially Distressed Municipalities Act (Act of 1987, P.L. 246, No. 47), also known as Act 47, empowers the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development to declare certain municipalities in Pennsylvania as financially distressed. Philadelphia and Pittsburgh are subject to separate state authorities, rather than this ...
Local municipalities can be governed by statutes, which are enacted by the Pennsylvania General Assembly, and are specific to the type and class of municipality; by a home rule municipality, under a home rule charter, adopted by the municipality; or by an optional form of government, adopted by the municipality. [3]
The Pennsylvania Housing Finance Agency administers the program and awards the grants. Under the program guidelines , the agency must distribute the grants by the end of 2024; recipients have ...
It provides grants from half of the proceeds of the 1% Allegheny County Sales and Use Tax. The County levied the tax in March 1994 and every municipal government in Allegheny County voted to participate in its benefits. 25% of the funds go directly to the County and 25% goes to the other municipal governments based on a formula weighted to help ...
Oct. 23—WILKES-BARRE — Legislators announced on Wednesday that $850,000 in Public School Facility Improvement grants have been awarded to three Luzerne County school districts Sen. Lisa Baker ...
Feb. 9—A proposed Pennsylvania House bill would alleviate the burden on tax-exempt municipalities by distributing taxes collected on wine and liquor to their coffers. Selinsgrove Borough Council ...
The Financially Distressed Municipalities Act (Act of 1987, P.L. 246, No. 47), also known as Act 47, is a Pennsylvania statute outlining procedures to stabilize municipalities in Pennsylvania undergoing financial distress.
Most municipalities in Pennsylvania must follow state law except where the state has expressly given jurisdiction to the municipality, and are therefore subject to the Third Class City Code, the Borough Code, the First Class Township Code, the Second Class Township Code, or other acts for sui generis municipalities.