Pennsylvania Statutes Title 16 P.S. Counties § 4825. Procedure and action of board

(a) Except as herein otherwise provided, whenever the board shall consider the number or salaries of the deputies or other employes of any county officer or agency, such officer or the executive head of such agency shall sit as a member of the board, as long as any matter affecting his office or agency is under consideration and no longer.

(b) Whenever the board shall consider the number or salaries of the court criers or tipstaves or other court employes, the president judge of the court shall sit as a member of the board, as long as any matter affecting the court criers, tipstaves or employes of his court is under consideration and no longer.

(c) Whenever the board shall consider the number or salaries of the officers or employes appointed by any judge of any court, such judge shall sit as a member of the board, as long as any matter affecting any of his appointees is under consideration and no longer.

(d) Whenever the board shall consider the number or salaries of the employes of the prison board, the president judge of the court of common pleas shall sit as a member of the board, and the board so constituted shall fix the number and salaries of such employes, notwithstanding any general, local or special law to the contrary.

(e) The decisions of a majority shall govern. Each board shall keep a correct minute book of its proceedings in all cases heard and determined by it. Such minute book shall be a public record.