# In Re Petition to Submit Ballot Question to Concord Township Voters

> Supreme Court of Pennsylvania · October 17, 2014 · 630 Pa. 406

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/2743560

## Case

- **Full name:** In Re PETITION TO SUBMIT BALLOT QUESTION TO CONCORD TOWNSHIP VOTERS. Delaware County Board of Elections, Intervenor. Petition of Colette Brown
- **Court:** Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- **Decided:** October 17, 2014
- **Citations:** 630 Pa. 406; 106 A.3d 1293; 2014 Pa. LEXIS 2761
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Opinion
- **Judges:** Per Curiam
- **Cited by:** 0 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

IN THE SUPREME COURT OF PENNSYLVANIA
MIDDLE DISTRICT

IN RE: PETITION TO SUBMIT BALLOT : No. 724 MAL 2014
QUESTION TO CONCORD TOWNSHIP :
VOTERS :
: Petition for Allowance of Appeal from the
: Order of the Commonwealth Court
:
DELAWARE COUNTY BOARD OF :
ELECTIONS, Intervenor :
:
:
PETITION OF: COLETTE BROWN :

ORDER

PER CURIAM

AND NOW, this 17th day of October, 2014, the Petition for Allowance of
Appeal is GRANTED. The issue as, as stated by Petitioners, is:
Does 53 P.S. §55207 restrict granting of a registered voter petition to
submit to voters of the subject township, a ballot question for
reclassification to First Class, to the first municipal or general election at
least ninety days after only the ascertainment of the minimum population
density specified in the statute of three hundred inhabitants per square
mile, or does 53 P.S. §55207 require submission of the ballot question to
voters of the subject township at the first municipal or general election at
least ninety days after both the ascertainment of minimum population
density and after a petition signed by five per centum of the registered
voter of the township is filed with the court?

It is further ordered that the matter will be SUBMITTED on the briefs. The prothonotary

is directed to set a briefing schedule.

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