Section 56701.1 - Amending budget; notice(a) During the month of January next, following any municipal election, the board of commissioners may amend the budget and the levy and tax rate to conform with its amended budget. A period of ten days' public inspection at the office of township secretary of the proposed amended budget after notice by the township secretary to that effect is published once in a newspaper of general circulation, as provided in section 110, shall intervene between the proposed amended budget and its adoption. An amended budget must be adopted by the board of commissioners on or before the fifteenth day of February.(b) No proposed amended budget shall be revised upward in excess of ten percent in the aggregate or in excess of twenty-five percent of the amount of an individual item in the proposed amended budget.1931, June 24, P.L. 1206, art. XVII, § 1701.1, added 1967, Dec. 14, P.L. 819, § 3, effective Jan. 1, 1969. Amended 2000, June 22, P.L. 335, No. 38, § 2, effective in 60 days; 2020, Oct. 29, P.L. 782, No. 96, § 61, effective in 60 days [Dec. 28, 2020].