Commonwealth Ex Rel. Bagnoni v. Klemm

OPINION

HUTCHINSON, Justice.

Resolution of this case turns solely upon a question of statutory construction: viz. whether an Act of Assembly which requires “a vote of two-thirds of the members” to override the Mayor’s veto means two-thirds of the entire body or two-thirds of the members present. We hold that in the context of section 413(a) the Optional Third Class City Charter Law (Article IV, Mayor-Council Plan A), Act of July *56815, 1957, P.L. 901, as amended, 53 P.S. § 41413(a), the quoted expression means two-thirds of the entire body. We therefore reverse the Commonwealth Court, 61 Pa.Cmwlth.…