Pennsylvania Statutes Title 8 Pa.C.S.A. Boroughs and Incorporated Towns § 1142. Powers and duties

(1) Council may enter into an employment or professional services agreement with the borough manager that specifies the terms and conditions of employment.

(2) The employment or professional services agreement may remain in effect for a specified period terminating no later than two years after the effective date of the agreement or the date of the organizational meeting of council following the next municipal election, whichever occurs first.

(3) An employment or professional services agreement entered into under this section may specify conditions under which a borough manager who is an individual will be entitled to severance compensation or, in the case of a partnership, a limited partnership, an association or a professional corporation, payments for the termination of appointment. In no event may the employment or professional services agreement guarantee retention or employment through the term of the agreement or confer upon the borough manager any legal remedy based on specific performance.

(4) An employment or professional services agreement with a borough manager executed on or after a municipal election but before the first meeting in January the year after the municipal election shall be void.

(5) The council may delegate to the borough manager, by ordinance and subject to recall, any of the nonlegislative and nonjudicial powers and duties of the council, the planning commission and the shade tree commission. With approval of council, the mayor may delegate to the borough manager any of the mayor's nonlegislative and nonjudicial powers and duties.