provides for appointment of the manager to a four-year term.”); Lobolito, Inc. v. N. Pocono Sch. Dist., 562 Pa. 380, 755 A.2d 1287, 1289 (2000) ("With respect to those agreements involving municipal or legislative bodies that encompass governmental functions, we have repeatedly held that governing bodies cannot bind their successors.”); id. at 1289-90 ("The obvious purpose of the rule is to permit a newly appointed governmental body to function freely on behalf of the public and in response to the governmental power or body politic by which it was appointed or elected-" (emphasis added)); id. at 1290 n. 5 ("The rule against binding governmental successors is recognized in most other jurisdictions as well.”); Falls Twp. v. McManamon, 113 Pa.Cmwlth. 504, 537 A.2d 946, 948 (1988) (<HOLDING>). 15 . Codified at S.C.Code Ann. § 4-9-10 to
holding provision unenforceable as against public policy where the written employment contract was signed by both parties based on reasonable consideration and reasonable as to time and territory restrictions holding that an arbitration award involving the appellants challenge to the failure of the insurance company to ensure that he had read and understood a signed waiver and to attach the waiver to the insurance policy as contrary to public policy is not reviewable by the courts because there is no challenge to a provision or term of the policy the appellant never claimed that the waiver or policy language itself was contrary to the public policy of this commonwealth holding that an employment contract between an outgoing city council and the city manager was void on public policy grounds because it attempted to take away the governmental or legislative power of the incoming council to appoint and remove public officers holding that language in employee handbook stating that it was not to be considered as creating terms and conditions of an employment contract and that the employment relationship was employment atwill  was sufficiently explicit to preclude the creation of implied contractual obligations as a matter of law holding that a threeyear employment contract between the lameduck supervisors of a township and the individual appointed by them to serve as police chief was invalid as against public policy because it was an attempt by the lameduck supervisors to influence the governmental functions of their successors