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File #: 1097-03    Version: 1 Name: Motion of the Council of Allegheny County to provide that the legal description of districts for Allegheny County Council, passed by Allegheny County Council on April 4, 2002 and amended on September 10, 2002, take effect immediately.
Type: Motion Status: Expired by Rule
File created: 3/18/2003 In control: Special Committee on Administrative Services
On agenda: Final action: 12/31/2003
Title: Motion of the Council of Allegheny County to provide that the legal description of districts for Allegheny County Council, passed by Allegheny County Council on April 4, 2002 and amended on September 10, 2002, take effect immediately.
Sponsors: Vince Gastgeb

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Motion of the Council of Allegheny County to provide that the legal description of districts for Allegheny County Council, passed by Allegheny County Council on April 4, 2002 and amended on September 10, 2002, take effect immediately.

 

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                     WHEREAS, Allegheny County Council passed Motion 0713-02 on April 4, 2002, adopting the legal description of districts for Allegheny County Council upon reapportionment based on the Federal Decennial Census of 2000; and

 

                     WHEREAS, Allegheny County Council passed Motion 02-1151 on September 10, 2002, amending the legal description of districts for Allegheny County Council; and

 

                     WHEREAS, on February 25, 2003, the Honorable Judge Robert J. Cindrich concluded that the reapportionment plan adopted by County Council violates neither the County Administrative Code nor the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and, all appeals of the reapportionment plan are now exhausted;

 

NOW THEREFORE, IT IS MOVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF ALLEGHENY COUNTY,

 

That the legal description of districts for Allegheny County Council, passed by Allegheny County Council on April 4, 2002 and amended on September 10, 2002, shall take effect immediately.