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Sponsor Statement for SB 359
Municipal Organization Grants

"An Act relating to organization grants for mergers, consolidations, or unifications involving third class boroughs; and relating to identification by the Local Boundary Commission of areas that meet the standards for borough incorporation."

This bill amends current statutes regarding organization grants to boroughs and unified municipalities. It also directs the Local Boundary Commission to report to the Twenty-Third Legislature on areas in the unorganized boroughs that could be incorporated as boroughs.

Currently, statutes do not provide for an organization grant to be disbursed to a unified municipality that merges or consolidates by occupying an area formerly occupied by a borough.

The bill amends the statutes by providing for organizations grants for a municipality that unifies after January 1, 2002 in an area formerly occupied by a third class borough.

The grants are for $200,000 for the first full or partial fiscal year and another $200,000 for the second fiscal year after the merger or consolidation.

Attachments:

• Sectional Analysis for SB 359
  
• Bill History for SB 359
  
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