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Home rule municipalities in Pennsylvania enjoy the opposite situation (i.e., they may govern themselves except where expressly forbidden by state law), and are governed according to their unique home rule charter rather than one of the above codes. While most home rule charter municipalities continue to reference their previous forms of ...
Home rule charters are published in the Pennsylvania Code in titles numbered in the 300s, by county. However, Norristown's published charter in the Montgomery County title of the Pennsylvania code (specifically Title 346) is an obsolete version, as the revised version was never published in the code.
List of Pennsylvania municipalities and counties with home rule charters, optional charters, or optional plans List of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania External links
Home rule municipalities that are styled as towns but classified as townships are not included in this list. In addition, two boroughs, Quakertown and Weatherly , have adopted optional plans, which allow them to change their form of local government but do not significantly change those boroughs' relationships with the state.
Home rule municipality (Pennsylvania) List of towns and boroughs in Pennsylvania List of Pennsylvania municipalities and counties with home rule charters, optional charters, or optional plans
Map of the United States with Pennsylvania highlighted. There are 56 municipalities classified as cities in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [1] Each city is further classified based on population, with Philadelphia being of the first class, Pittsburgh of the second class, Scranton of the second class A, and the remaining 53 cities being of the third class.
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Home rule in the United States relates to the authority of a constituent part of a U.S. state to exercise powers of governance; i.e.: whether such powers must be specifically delegated to it by the state (typically by legislative action) or are generally implicitly allowed unless specifically denied by state-level action.