(A) It is the desire of the Township Supervisors to join with the Borough of Selinsgrove (“Selinsgrove”), the Borough of Shamokin Dam (“Shamokin Dam”), and the Township of Penn (“Penn”), all of Snyder County, Pennsylvania, and organize a joint municipal authority under the Municipality Authorities Act of 1945, Act No. 164, May 2, 1945, Pub. Law 382, being 35 Pa.C.S. §§ 5601 et seq., as amended, and their intention to do so is hereby declared.
(B) The name of the joint authority shall be Eastern Snyder County Regional Authority.
(C) The joint authority shall have the purpose of acquiring, holding, constructing, improving, maintaining and operating, owning, and leasing, either in the capacity of lessor or lessee, the project consisting of sewers, sewer systems, parts of sewer systems, works for treating and disposing of sewage and industrial waste; and all related facilities necessary or desirable to accept, convey, treat, and dispose of sewage and industrial waste from the collection system of each and every one of the incorporating municipalities and each and every authority at any time organized by and in existence in and for one or more of the incorporating municipalities, which purpose is authorized under the Municipality Authorities Act of 1945, as amended.
(D) The powers of the joint authority shall be all those which an authority created under the Municipality Authorities Act of 1945, as amended, is permitted to have or exercise.
(E) The principal office of the joint authority shall be at Selinsgrove Sewage Treatment Plant, South Front Street, Selinsgrove, Snyder County, Pennsylvania, and its initial mailing address shall be P.O. Box 330, Selinsgrove, PA 17870.
(F) Each incorporating municipality shall be entitled to appoint two members to the Board of Joint Authority.
(G) The members of the Board of the joint authority shall be paid a salary from the funds of the joint authority. The Board shall have the power establish salaries for the officers of the joint authority and members of the Board may also be officers of the joint authority.
(H) The Chairperson of the Board of Supervisors shall cause articles of incorporation for the joint authority to be prepared and the Chairperson of the Board of Supervisors and the Township Secretary shall execute such articles and seal the same with the township seal.
(I) The Chairperson of the Board of Supervisors, the Township Secretary, and the Township Treasurer are hereby directed to do any and all acts and things necessary and proper and as required by the Municipality Authorities Act of 1945, as amended, to complete the incorporation and organization of the Eastern Snyder County Regional Authority.
(J) Upon the completion of the incorporation of the Eastern Snyder County Regional Authority, the Board of Supervisors of Penn Township hereby authorizes and directs the Selinsgrove Municipal Authority, for and in consideration of $1, to grant, convey, and transfer to Eastern Snyder County Regional Authority all assets of Selinsgrove Municipal Authority which are the regional sewage facilities, excepting those retained to cover liabilities related to the acquisition or operation of the regional facilities.
(Ord. 1994-2, passed 4-12-1994)