Pennsylvania Act 1925-313 — SECOND CLASS CITIES, AUTHORIZED TO CONSTRUCT SUB-SURFACE WALKS

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SECOND CLASS CITIES, AUTHORIZED TO CONSTRUCT SUB-SURFACE WALKS
                  Act of May 12, 1925, P.L. 583, No. 313              Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing and empowering cities of the second class in this
        Commonwealth to construct and maintain sub-surface walks
        under the streets and sidewalks of the city, and to assess
        the cost, damage, and expense of the construction thereof
        against properties abutting along the line of said
        improvement and specially and peculiarly benefited by the
        construction thereof; providing for the procedure therein,
        and for the ascertainment of the cost, damage, and expense
        thereof; and providing how and to what extent liens may be
        filed therefor.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That cities of the second
     class in this Commonwealth shall have the power and authority to
     construct and maintain under the surface of any street or
     sidewalk in the said city, at such depth and according to such
     plan and design as the council thereof may approve, a sub-
     surface walk or passageway of such length as council may
     determine, and with such ways of ingress and egress as they may
     deem necessary.
        Section 2.  The said cities are authorized and empowered to
     assess the cost, damage, and expense arising from the
     construction of the said sub-surface walks against the
     properties abutting thereon that are specially and peculiarly
     benefited by said improvement in like manner as such assessments
     are now made for the opening and widening of streets.
        Section 3.  In exercising the powers aforesaid the
     proceedings for ascertaining damages and the assessment of
     benefits incidental thereto shall be as now provided by law in
     reference to the payment of the cost, damage, and expense of
     public improvements within municipal corporations; and liens
     therefor may be filed in accordance with the laws regulating the
     filing of liens for other municipal improvements and with like
     effect.