Pennsylvania Consolidated & Unconsolidated Statutes
Title 8 - BOROUGHS AND INCORPORATED TOWNS
Chapter 2 - Creation and Alteration

Extra - Chapter Notes - Enactment. Chapter 2 was added April 18, 2014, P.L.432, No.37,...

Section 200 - Definitions - The following words and phrases when used in this subchapter...

Section 201 - Contiguous areas - A court of common pleas may incorporate as a borough...

Section 202 - Applications - (a) Petition.--The following shall apply: (1) The application for incorporation...

Section 202.1 - Borough advisory committee - (a) Establishment.--The court shall establish a borough advisory committee when...

Section 202.2 - Advisability of incorporation, certification of question for referendum and decree - (a) Process.--After receiving the findings of fact and the advice...

Section 205 - Borough government and requisites of charter - (a) Time.--When the petition and the final decree granting the...

Section 206 - Farmlands - If, in any petition for the incorporation of a borough,...

Section 207 - Corporate name - The corporate name of a borough incorporated under this part...

Section 210 - Certificates - (a) Decree.--When a borough is created, the clerk of courts...

Section 211 - Temporary preservation, organization and election of officers - (a) Government.--The following shall apply: (1) A newly incorporated area...

Section 212 - Boundaries - The boundaries of the borough shall, as soon as practicable...

Section 213 - Adjustment of indebtedness - (a) Property.--The following shall apply: (1) After the election of...

Section 214 - Judicial adjustment - (a) Petition.--If the governing bodies of the township and the...

Section 215 - Judicial adjustment award proceedings - (a) Notice.--The commissioners shall give the township and the borough...

Section 216 - Exceptions - If exceptions are filed to the report under section 214(c)...

Section 217 - Compensation, expenses and costs - The commissioners under section 214(b) (relating to judicial adjustment) shall...

Section 218 - Territory located in multiple counties - If territory included within the limits of a newly incorporated...

Section 219 - Bond issues and taxation - In any proceeding to adjust and apportion indebtedness, the township...

Section 231 - Procedure - (a) Petition.--The court of common pleas shall, upon petition of...

Section 232 - Filing, notice and return - (a) Filing.--Upon presentation of a petition under section 231 (relating...

Section 233 - Borough government - (a) City.--When the record of the proceedings under section 232...

Section 234 - Effect - (a) Property.--When the borough government is formed, the property and...

Section 235 - Costs and expenses - (a) Petitioners.--Except as provided under subsection (b), the costs and...

Section 241 - Consolidation or merger - A borough may be merged or consolidated into a new...

Section 242 - Change of corporate name - (a) General rule.--The following shall apply: (1) If the corporate...