Appointment to County Offices

Garfinkel,

Deputy Attorney General,

You have requested an opinion as to the applicability to elective county offices of the provision of section 409 of the County Code of August 9, 1955, Act no. 130, P. L. 323, that a person appointed by the Governor to fill a vacancy shall continue in the office to which he was appointed for the balance of the unexpired term.

Section 409 provides that:

“In case of a vacancy, happening by death, resignation or otherwise, in any county office created by the Constitution or laws of this Commonwealth, and where no other provision is made by the Constitution, or by…