In Re Petition to Submit Ballot Question to Concord Township Voters

OPINION

Justice STEVENS.

Colette Brown,1 a Concord Township, Delaware County resident (“Appellant”), appeals the Commonwealth Court’s order affirming the trial court’s dismissal of her petition to place, on the November 2014 ballot, a referendum question *313seeking to change the Township’s governmental status from second-class to first-class. For the following reasons, we reverse the order of the Commonwealth Court and remand to the trial court for further proceedings, consistent with this opinion.

The following issue of first impression has been presented before this Court:

Does 53 P.S. § 55207…