Three months after the Allegheny County municipality of Clairton was removed from Act 47 distressed status, a borough in Schuylkill County has been declared distressed. Mahanoy City was declared distressed in mid-February upon meeting two of the statute’s conditions of distress. The borough missed a payroll and a minimum payment on its pension obligations.
Based on changes to Act 47 made in 2014, there is a time limit on how long municipalities can be under Act 47 status, so with the five year time frame (barring an extension granted to the municipality) Mahanoy City would have to exit by 2021.