Community Centers and Senior Citizen Centers.Municipal government can also influence the general appearance and desirability of a community through sponsorship of cultural or recreational activities, such as: Townships can establish health and safety regulations to protect citizens from nuisances and noxious activities regulate building activities and control of land development through zoning and subdivision ordinances. Municipal government is important to the quality of life within a community. Townships may also provide other services, such as parks and recreation, water and sewer service, and refuse collection, in furtherance of their legislated responsibilities.
As a municipal government, townships have the ultimate responsibility for public health, safety, and welfare, which may include police and fire protection, emergency medical services, emergency management, highway maintenance and codes enforcement. Through their respective operating codes, municipalities are given power to act for the good of society. For example, Pennsylvania possesses townships of both the first and second class, and several classifications of cities. Further, some of these general municipal classifications are further defined within specific operating categories. There even exists one incorporated town, the Town of Bloomsburg. There are other forms of local government in Pennsylvania, such as cities, boroughs, villages, and home rule municipalities. Townships like Lower Paxton are a specific form of local or municipal government defined by an act of the state legislature known as the Second Class Township Code. The 1,457 townships of the second class represent over half of the state’s 2,566 municipal governments and 35% of the state’s population.
Although individual townships may represent comparatively small municipal constituencies, townships as a whole are the most common forms of municipal government in Pennsylvania. Most of Pennsylvania’s townships possess much smaller populations - usually less than 10,000 people. Lower Paxton Township is the 17th most populous municipality in Pennsylvania with a 2020 census count of 53,501 people. View Most Recent Agendas and Minutes Members Minutes are available following approval. Agendas are available prior to the meetings.
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