Dockett v. Old Forge Borough

Citations

• 240 Pa. 98
• 87 A. 421
• 1913 Pa. LEXIS 638

Syllabus

<p>Boroughs — Ordinances—Regular meetings — Adjourned meeting —Veto.</p> <p>1. Where a borough ordinance is passed at a regular meeting, and this meeting is adjourned to a date prior to the next regular meeting, the. burgess in vetoing the ordinance may disregard the adjourned meeting, and return the ordinance with his objections to the next regular meeting, and in so doing he complies with the third section of the Act of May 23, 1893, P. L. 113, which provides that every ordinance passed by council shall be presented to the chief burgess for his approval or disapproval, and if he shall not approve of the ordinance “he shall return it with his objections to said council at the next regular meeting thereof.”</p> <p>2. An adjourned meeting of a regular meeting is nothing more than a continuance of the regular meeting, and is not a new and independent meeting.</p> <p>Boroughs — Contracts — Strikes — Unlawful appropriation of money.</p> <p>3. A borough has no power to appropriate money in addition to the contract price to pay an increase of wages - to the striking workmen of a borough contractor engaged in the building of a sewer. If the contractor cannot go on with his work' by reason of the strike, the borough may re-let the work to someone else, and then proceed on the bond, to recover the loss, if any.</p>