Bucks County judges will choose Commissioner Bob Harvie’s successor when he leaves for Congress, as first reported by the Bucks County Courier Times.
Pennsylvania’s County Code assigns commissioner vacancies to the county’s Court of Common Pleas. The person appointed serves the remainder of the unexpired term.
The law requires the appointee to be a registered county voter. The appointee must belong to the party the departing commissioner belonged to when elected.
The county’s biography of Harvie lists his current term as 2024 to 2028 and identifies him as board vice chair. It says he was reelected in November 2023.
That biography records his second-term swearing-in on Jan. 2, 2024. Harvie first joined the board in 2020 after winning election the previous November.
The Courier Times reported Nov. 6 that application and voting details had not been finalized. That statement describes the process at the time of its report.
The appointment will concern a seat on a three-member board. Bucks County’s commissioners oversee county administration and adopt its budget, according to the county.
