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Pennsylvania · Through 2026-08-24 (Statute Update stamp, 53 Pa.C.S.)

53 Pa.C.S. § 2967: Repeal of home rule charter.

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  1. Title 53 - MUNICIPALITIES GENERALLY
  2. PART III GOVERNMENT AND ADMINISTRATION
  3. SUBPART E HOME RULE AND OPTIONAL PLAN GOVERNMENT
  4. CHAPTER 29 GENERAL PROVISIONS
  5. SUBCHAPTER E GENERAL POWERS AND LIMITATIONS OF HOME RULE CHARTER MUNICIPALITIES

(a) General rule.--The procedure for repeal of a home rule charter shall be the same as for adoption of a home rule charter. Whenever the electors, by a majority vote of those voting on the question, vote in favor of repeal of a home rule charter and the establishment of a particular form of government, the municipality shall be governed under the form of government selected by the electors from the first Monday of January following the municipal election at which the elective officials of the form of government selected by the electors shall have been elected. The government study commission shall provide in its report for the new form of government to be established.

(b) Election of new officials.--The elective officials under a new form of government selected by the electors shall be elected at the first municipal election held after the referendum on the repeal of a home rule charter or at a later date as may be specified by the commission in its report.

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