In re Annexation of Mill Creek Township

Citations

• 74 Pa. Super. 275
• 1920 Pa. Super. LEXIS 138

Syllabus

<p>Townships — Annexation to cities of contiguous territory — Act of June 1918, P. L. 568.</p> <p>There is nothing in the Act of June 27, 1913, P. L. 568, regulating the government of third-class cities, which prohibits the annexation of territory of adjacent townships to a municipality, when such annexation would result in the separation of the remaining parts of the township, which are not annexed.</p> <p>The acts of assembly, referring to the division of townships, govern only those cases where the inhabitants of a township desire to be divided and have nothing to do with annexation proceedings. Every annexation to a city or borough from a township is in effect- a division of a township, and such proceedings can be had without submitting the question to a vote of the inhabitants therein.</p>