§ 1410Returns of Local Officers Voted for in Two or More Counties; Certificates of Election; Returns of County and Local Officers Commissioned by Governor to Be Transmitted to Governor; Commissions; Contests

(a) In the case of any city, borough, township, ward, school
district, or poor district office, or of the submission of any
question to the electors, voted for or upon by the electors of
two or more counties or parts of counties, the county election
board, in each of the counties in which such municipality is
located, shall certify to the county board of the county in
which reside the majority of registered electors of such city,
borough, township, ward, school district or poor district, the
return of the vote cast for such officers or upon such
questions. After completing the tabulation of such returns, the
return board of said county shall issue certificates of election
to the successful candidates. In case of any county, borough,
city or township officer who is by law required to be
commissioned by the Governor, the said return board shall also
transmit a certified copy of such return to the Secretary of
the Commonwealth, who shall forthwith lay the results of such
election before the Governor.
   (b) In case of the election of judge of a court of record,
prothonotary, clerk of the courts, recorder of deeds, register
of wills, or any other officer required by law to be
commissioned by the Governor in any of the several counties of
this Commonwealth, it shall be the duty of the county elections
board to transmit immediately to the Secretary of the
Commonwealth a certified copy of the returns for all such
offices. The Secretary of the Commonwealth shall forthwith lay
the return so made before the Governor, and the Governor shall
issue a commission to any persons elected to said offices,
notwithstanding that the election of such person to any or
either of said offices may be contested in the manner provided
by this act.
   (c) Whenever it shall appear by the decision of the proper
tribunal having jurisdiction of a contested election, that the
person to whom said commission shall have been issued has not
been legally elected to the office for which he has been
commissioned, then a commission shall issue to the person who
shall appear to be legally elected to said office, the issuing
of which commission shall nullify and make void the commission
already issued, and all power and authority under said
commission first issued shall thereupon cease and determine.