Pennsylvania Act 1965-128 — AUTHORIZING ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS OF INCORPORATED TOWNS

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AUTHORIZING ORDINANCES AND REGULATIONS OF INCORPORATED TOWNS
                 Act of Jul. 22, 1965, P.L. 230, No. 128              Cl. 08
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing ordinances and certain resolutions of incorporated
        towns to be in force after attachment to the ordinance book
        of the incorporated town, and validating certain records of
        incorporated towns.

        The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
     hereby enacts as follows:

        Section 1.  Recording, Advertising and Proof of Ordinances;
     Codification of Ordinances.--No ordinance, or resolution of a
     legislative character, in the nature of an ordinance, shall be
     considered in force until the same is recorded in the ordinance
     book of the town and has been advertised as prescribed by law.
     All ordinances, or resolutions of a legislative character in the
     nature of an ordinance, may be proved by the certificate of the
     town secretary, under the town seal, and, when printed or
     published in book or pamphlet form and purporting to be
     published by the authority of the town, shall be read and
     received as evidence in all courts and places without further
     proof. All town ordinances shall, within one month after their
     passage, be recorded by the town secretary in a book provided
     for that purpose, which shall be at all times open to the
     inspection of citizens. The entry of the town ordinance in the
     ordinance book by the secretary shall be sufficient, without the
     signature thereto of the mayor or other person. Any and all town
     ordinances, or portions thereof, the text of which, prior to the
     effective date of this amendment, shall have been attached to
     the ordinance book, shall be considered in force just as if such
     ordinances, or portions thereof, had been recorded directly upon
     the pages of such ordinance book: Provided, That all
     requirements applicable to the enactment, approval, advertising
     and recording of such ordinances, or portions thereof, are
     complied with within the time limit prescribed by law.
        Section 2.  Typewritten, Printed, Photostated and Microfilmed
     Records Valid; Recording or Transcribing Records.--All town
     records, required to be recorded or transcribed, shall be deemed
     valid if typewritten, printed, photostated or microfilmed, and
     where recording in a specified book of record is required,
     except minutes of the proceedings of the council, such records
     may be recorded or transcribed in a mechanical or key-operated
     post binder book, or bound book with pages being consecutively
     numbered by transcribing directly upon the pages of such book of
     record or may be attached to such book of record by stapling or
     by glue or any other adhesive substance or material, and all
     records heretofore recorded or transcribed in any manner
     authorized by this section are validated. The minutes of
     proceedings of the council shall, in the manner prescribed by
     this section for other records, be recorded in a bound book.
     When any record shall be recorded or transcribed after the
     effective date of this act by attaching such record or a copy
     thereof to the book of record as hereinabove provided, the town
     seal shall be impressed upon each page to which such record is
     attached, each impression thereof covering both a portion of the
     attached record and a portion of the page of the book of record
     to which such record is attached.
        (2 amended July 1, 1968, P.L.289, No.142)
        Section 3.  This act shall take effect immediately.