Wilkes-Barre Appeal

Opinion by

Hoffman, J.,

This is an appeal from an order of the Court of Quarter Sessions of Luzerne County declaring invalid an earned income tax ordinance of the City of Wilkes-Barre on the grounds that:(1) the ordinance was adopted on January 10, 1966, under the Act of June 25, 1947, P. L. 1145, as amended, 53 P.S. §6851 et seq., which was specifically repealed by the General Assembly on January 1, 1966; and

*427(2) the ordinance was not properly advertised in accordance with law.

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Was the ordinance invalid because enacted under a repealed statute?

On December 7, 1965, the City Clerk of Wilkes-Barre…