Lacey Park Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 v. Board of Supervisors of Warminster Township

In Lacey Park Volunteer Fire Company No. 1 v. Board of Supervisors of Warminster Township, 27 Pa. Commw. 54, 365 A.2d 880 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1976), the Township first directed a volunteer fire company to develop a merger plan in order to merge or consolidate with another Township fire company. Ultimately, the Township rejected the proposed plan, voted instead to suspend the operations of the fire company and ordered the company to turn all of its vehicles over to another local fire company. The Court opined that, under the Second Class Township Code, the Township had the power to make regulations concerning the operation of fire companies, but that said authority did not provide the Township with the power to take possession of an incorporated company's property not owned by the Township.