List of Pennsylvania municipalities and counties with home rule charters, optional charters, or optional plans This is a list of Pennsylvania municipalities and counties with home rule charters , optional charters, or optional plans , including municipalities with home rule charters, optional charters, or optional plans.Most municipalities in Pennsylvania must follow state law except where the state has expressly given jurisdiction to the municipality, and are therefore subject to the Third-Class City Code , the Borough Code, the First-Class Township Code, or the Second-Class Township Code. Home rule municipalities in Pennsylvania, of which there are 76, enjoy the opposite situation, 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 government in their corporate names, they may also adopt a new corporate name that references a different form of government , or that omits the form from the name altogether.Name Type Type Class County Allentown City City Third Lehigh Altoona City City Third Blair Bellevue Borough Borough N/A Allegheny Bethel Park Municipality Borough N/A Allegheny Bradford Woods Borough Borough N/A Allegheny Bryn Athyn Borough Borough N/A Montgomery Cambridge SpringsBorough Borough N/A Crawford Carbondale City City Third Lackawanna Carlisle Borough Borough N/A Cumberland Chalfont Borough Borough N/A Bucks Cheltenham Township Township First Montgomery Chester City City Third Delaware Chester Township Township Second Delaware Clairton City City Third Allegheny Coatesville City City Third Chester Concord Township Township Second Delaware Easton City City Third Northampton Edinboro Borough Borough N/A Erie Elk Township Township Second Chester Farrell City City Third Mercer Ferguson Township Township Second Centre Franklin City City Third Venago Grant Township Township Second Indiana Green Tree Borough Borough N/A Allegheny Greensburg City City Third Westmoreland Greenville Town Borough N/A Mercer Hampton Township Township Second Allegheny Hanover Township Township Second Lehigh Haverford Township Township First Delaware Hermitage City City Third Mercer Highland Township Township Second Elk Horsham Township Township Second Montgomery Johnstown City City Third Cambria Kingston Municipality Borough N/A Luzerne Kingston Township Township Second Luzerne Latrobe City City N/A Westmoreland Lebanon City City Third Lebanon Malvern Borough Borough N/A Chester McCandless Town Township First Allegheny McKeesport City City Third Allegheny Middletown Township Township Second Delaware Monroeville Municipality Borough N/A Allegheny Mt. Lebanon Municipality Township First Allegheny Murrysville Municipality Borough N/A Westmoreland Nanticoke City City Third Luzerne Norristown Municipality Borough N/A Montgomery O'Hara Township Township First Allegheny Penn Hills Municipality Township First Allegheny Peters Township Township Second Washington Philadelphia City City First Philadelphia Pine Township Township Second Allegheny Pittsburgh City City Second Allegheny Pittston City City Third Luzerne Plymouth Township Township Second Luzerne Plymouth Township Township First Montgomery Portage Borough Borough N/A Cambria Radnor Township Township First Delaware Reading City City Third Berks Richland Township Township Second Allegheny St. Marys City City Third Elk Scranton City City Second A Lackawanna Sharon City City Third Mercer State College Borough Borough N/A Centre Tredyffrin Township Township Second Chester Tyrone Borough Borough N/A Blair Upper Darby Township Township First Delaware Upper Providence Township Township Second Delaware Upper St. Clair Municipality Township First Allegheny Warren City City Third Warren West Chester Borough Borough N/A Chester West Deer Township Township Second Allegheny Whitehall Borough Borough N/A Allegheny Whitehall Township Township First Lehigh Whitemarsh Township Township Second Montgomery Wilkes-Barre City City Third Luzerne Wilkes-Barre Township Township First Luzerne Youngsville Borough Borough N/A Warren
Future home rule charter municipalities The following municipalities have approved home rule charters that have not yet taken effect .Name Type Type Class County Effective Braddock Borough Borough N/A Allegheny January 4 , 2021Mahanoy City Borough Borough N/A Schuylkill January 1 , 2021Wheatland Unknown Borough N/A Mercer Unknown
Counties with home rule charters with a home rule charter, of which there are 7, may design their own form of county government , but are still generally subject to the County Code or the Second-Class County Code. Because home rule charters primarily function to change the form of local government , and do not significantly change the relationship between a county and the state, as they do with municipalities, counties with home rule charters are still generally considered counties under state law.Philadelphia County is unique in Pennsylvania in that it is a consolidated city-county , and so while the county is technically not governed by a home rule charter, the fact that Philadelphia City is a home rule municipality means that in practice the county is as well.Name Class Allegheny Second Delaware Second A Erie Third Lackawanna Third Lehigh Third Luzerne Third Northampton Third
Optional charter and optional plan municipalities In addition to home rule charters, two other forms of non-standard government exist in Pennsylvania: optional plans and optional charters. Optional charters are older, and were originally available only to third-class cities; it is no longer possible to apply for an optional charter, but those cities which already had them and which did not adopt home rule charters, of which there are 11, retain them. Optional plans may be adopted by any municipality, and function essentially the same as optional charters. They both allow the municipality to adopt a form of government that differs from the type proscribed by the municipal code that municipality is subject to, but do not change the municipality's relationship with the state government . Therefore, they are still considered boroughs, third-class cities, or townships of the first- or second-class, respectively, under state law.Name Type Class County Charter/Plan Form Bensalem Township Second Bucks Plan Mayor-Council Plan B Bethlehem City Third Lehigh Northampton Charter Mayor-Council Plan A Bristol Township First Bucks Plan Mayor-Council Plan C College Township Second Centre Plan Council-Manager DuBois City Third Clearfield Plan Council-Manager Erie City Third Erie Charter Mayor-Council Plan A Harrisburg City Third Dauphin Charter Mayor-Council Plan A Hazleton City Third Luzerne Plan Mayor-Council Plan B Indiana Township Second Allegheny Plan Council-Manager Lancaster City Third Lancaster Charter Mayor-Council Plan A Lock HavenCity Third Clinton Charter Council-Manager Lower Saucon Township Second Northampton Plan Council-Manager Meadville City Third Crawford Charter Council-Manager New Castle City Third Lawrence Charter Mayor-Council Plan A Oil City City Third Venango Charter Council-Manager Quakertown Borough N/A Bucks Plan Council-Manager Titusville City Third Crawford Charter Council-Manager Washington Township Second Erie Plan Council-Manager Weatherly Borough N/A Carbon Plan Council-Manager Williamsport City Third Lycoming Charter Mayor-Council Plan A York City Third York Charter Mayor-Council Plan A
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