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- Title: Bogdan v. School District Coal Township
- Author : the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
- Release Date : January 07, 1952
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 62 KB
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The pivotal question is: who is the legal tax collector of the school district of Coal Township of Northumberland County? The re-elected township treasurer is in default in his tax settlements for his previous term of office. Because of this fact the school district declined to deliver to him the certified duplicate tax statement for the current fiscal year 1950-51. See Public School Code of March 10, 1949 P.L. 30, art. VI, sec. 677, 24 PS, 6-677. This effectively prevents the re-elected township treasurer, as collector of school taxes, from performing his duties. The school board, by four to three vote, dismissed the elected township treasurer as collector of school taxes, and appointed another individual as school tax collector in his stead. The assigned reason for such dismissal was that "[plaintiff] did not settle his former duplicates according to law." The board having refused to supply the duly elected township treasurer, as school tax collector, with the essential current tax duplicates, he is powerless to perform his duty in collecting the school taxes. There exists in the school district great uncertainty as to which of the two collectors is lawfully entitled to act. The court below in an opinion by President Judge FORTNEY decided that the duly elected township treasurer,