Lower Gwynedd Township v. Gwynedd Properties, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• reiterating this Court’s unswerving view that statutory steps for ordinance enactment are mandatory and non-waivable
• discussing how an ordinance must meet the “publication requirements” in order to be valid
• rejecting a “substantial compliance” argument and declaring an ordinance void ab initio for failure to provide the full text of an ordinance to the local newspaper and the county law library or other designated county office
• failure to publish entire text of ordinance as required by The Second Class Township Code 6 rendered ordinance void
• “[T]he procedures established by the legislature for the enactment of ordinances must be followed strictly in order for an ordinance to be valid.”
• “The precedents of this Court have been consistent in holding that statutory publication requirements are mandatory and that ordinances adopted without strict compliance are void.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).