It is managed by a five-member elected town board, which hires the township manager.

The township manager is Kathleen D. Hoffman.

The council also hires a non-partisan manager to serve as the chief administrative official of the township.

Under the new plan, a mayor directly elected by the voters oversees the day-to-day operation of the township with the aid of a business manager, subject to the oversight of a five-member Township Council.

In 1928, Mount Lebanon became the first First Class township in Pennsylvania to adopt the council-manager form of government and has had an appointed manager serving as the chief administrative officer since that time.

Newtown Township is governed by a 5 member Board of Supervisors who oversee a full-time township manager.

The township manager is appointed by the board and is responsible for the day-to-day business activities of the township.

The head of the administration is the township manager.

The current township manager is Anthony Hamaday.

A professional township manager runs the day-to-day operations overseeing the activities of 250 full and part-time employees.

The Supervisors hire a township manager to run the operations of the township.

The current township manager is Ronald Wagenmann.

Charter townships may appoint either a township superintendent or township manager, who can be assigned responsibilities for managing township functions ( this is comparable to cities that utilize a city manager to oversee the day-to-day operations of the city ).

Laws and regulations were disseminated by royal messengers who visited each township and assembled the inhabitants to give their chief's orders.

Fifty houses are made a township, and for each township there is appointed an elder.

" Or, as the author of the eleventh edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica article noted, " To the topographer, as to the genealogist, its evidence is of primary importance, as it not only contains the earliest survey of each township or manor, but affords, in the majority of cases, a clue to its subsequent descent.

As with most counties in the state, the court system consists of municipal courts for each township, borough and city, as well as a New Jersey Superior Court for the county.

When Carter County was organized the 16th section of each township was set aside for schools, and when sold the interest on the money raised would go toward the maintenance of public schools, also known as Common Schools as they were regarded as being for the “ common ” people who could not afford to patronize one of the private schools.

" Prior to this period, starting in 1803, sixteenth sections in each township in Mississippi were established for school purposes.

Section 16 in each township was reserved for financing and maintaining public education, and even today many schools in Oakland County townships are located within that section.

A stretch of railroad line was laid through areas of Sadsbury Township and Salisbury Township, which portions of each township share the Gap ZIP code ( 17527 ) and the town name of Gap.

The original township had 500 individually owned and operated farms which were 20 or each.

It was composed of one representative from each village within the township.

This first township was later divided into the townships of Albion, Clarendon, Eckford, and Homer — each 6 mile squares.

The township includes the unincorporated communities of Pokagon and Sumnerville, adjacent to each other on M-51.

There are at least 25 lakes in the township, varying in size from 30 acres ( 120, 000 m2 ) to 300 acres ( 1. 2 km2 ) each.

There are five ( 5 ) Supervisors, elected at-large by the electorate of the township, each serving a three ( 3 ) year term.

The township committee is elected directly by the voters in partisan elections to serve three-year terms of office on a staggered basis, with one or two seats coming up for election each year.

Two members of the township committee serve on each and provide oversight to the departments.

Two members of the township committee serve on each standing committee and provide oversight to the departments.

The township committee, which is the governing body, consists of five members elected at large in partisan elections for three-year terms on a staggered basis, with one or two seats coming up for election each year.

The township has individual organizations that run each youth sports program, including Little League Baseball ( WMLL ), Police Athletic League ( PAL ) Basketball, PAL Soccer, West Milford-Star Athletics Cheerleading, Midget Football Association ( WMMFA ) Football, WMMFA Cheerleading, Amateur Baseball Association ( WMABA ) Baseball, and Girls Softball Association softball ( WMGSA ).

Pennsylvania Route 66 is the main highway that runs through the township, with Leechburg Borough and Parks Township at each entrance.

The township is broken into twelve ( 12 ) voting districts, each with one polling place.

A second class township government consists of three supervisors, each with equal voting power.

Both departments average more than 800 fire calls ( both departments run mutually on each call within the township ) a year making them the busiest volunteer fire district in Northampton county.

Common names for local government entities include state, province, region, department, county, prefecture, district, city, township, town, borough, parish, municipality, shire and village.

The commissioners are part-time officials and the township government is run day to day by the Township Administrator and various department heads.

The hub of this activity was " 11-C Camp ", so named due to its township location in section 11 and designated " township C " by Standard's mapping department.

The department was combined into one agency in 1998 and levies a flat tax rate to both the town and township.

The post office department rejected the requested name of " Bruceville ", and the office was named for the township. It incorporated as a village in 1906 or 1907 and later disincorporated.

There is a fire department and township hall located here.

The township operates its own fire department, but contracts with the Eaton County Sheriff Department for police protection as the township does not have its own police department.

The township has a four member police department and a volunteer fire department with two stations, rescue service, four fire trucks.

The township contracts with the Kalamazoo County Sheriff's department to provide 24 hour police protection within the township.

Although the township does not have its own police force, it does have a fire department.

Although Carrollton is a township, it provides many of the services of larger municipalities, including a full-time police department, fire department, parks & recreation services as well as its own k-12 school system.

Every district is 100 % volunteer and are on call around the clock, with dispatching for all fire districts provided by the township police department.

Lakewood Township is served by the Lakewood Fire Department ( LFD ), a unified combination fire department consisting of five volunteer fire companies, one fire police unit and two paid fire stations which provide fire protection for the township.

West Milford sports are overseen by the township department of Community Services and Recreation.

Under the current plan, Vernon has a " strong mayor " system of government in which the mayor heads the executive branch, overseeing township functions, enforcing all ordinances and other regulations, appoints department heads and prepares a budget, with the assistance of a business administrator.

The police department shared space with the township administration in the new building that was built at a cost of $ 190, 000.

In the spring of 2002, both the police department and the township offices were reunited again in a new municipal center located behind the Shoppes at Flowers Mill on Municipal Way.