(a) The members of the boundary commission shall take and subscribe the oath as provided in 53 Pa.C.S. § 1141 (relating to form of oaths of office) prior to assuming duties with the commission.

(b) The boundary commission shall meet and organize within two weeks of its appointment. It shall select from its membership a chairman and also a secretary who shall keep a full record of the proceedings and work of the commission. The commission shall advertise in not more than two newspapers published in each of the counties concerned, a time and place of meeting, when and where parties interested shall be heard. After the hearing, it shall, without unreasonable delay, ascertain the location, and survey and mark with permanent monuments the existing county line between such counties.