Pennsylvania Act 1927-101 — SECOND CLASS CITIES - AUTHORIZING PUBLIC WORKS FOR FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION

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SECOND CLASS CITIES - AUTHORIZING PUBLIC WORKS FOR FLOOD DAMAGE
                                PREVENTION
                  Act of Apr. 7, 1927, P.L. 130, No. 101              Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing cities of the second class, for the purpose of
        preventing damage from floods, to provide for the cleansing,
        improvement, regulation, and control of streams and rivers
        lying either in whole or in part within their limits, and to
        construct public works within their respective limits for
        such purposes; and to participate with the United States and
        this and other States and the several cities, counties, and
        other municipal and public corporations through which such
        rivers or streams flow, in constructing such public works in
        or along such rivers or streams, either within or without the
        limits of such cities, and either within or without the
        limits of this Commonwealth, as may be deemed necessary for
        such purposes; and to enter into contracts therefor.
        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That the cities of the second
     class of this Commonwealth, for the purpose of preventing damage
     from floods, are authorized to provide for the cleansing,
     regulation, and control of streams and rivers lying either in
     whole or in part within their limits, and to construct public
     works within their respective limits for such purposes; and, if
     the corporate authorities thereof deem it necessary and for the
     benefit of any such city, to participate with the United States
     and this and other States and the several cities, counties, and
     other municipal and public corporations through which such
     rivers or streams flow, in constructing such public works in or
     along such rivers or streams, either within or without the
     limits of such cities, and either within or without the limits
     of this Commonwealth, as may be deemed necessary for such
     purposes, and to enter into contracts therefor; but nothing in
     this act contained shall be construed to repeal in any way, or
     in any way alter or abridge, the provisions of the act, approved
     the twenty-fifth day of June, one thousand nine hundred and
     thirteen, entitled "An act providing for the regulation of dams,
     or other structures or obstructions, as defined herein, in,
     along, across, or projecting into all streams and bodies of
     water wholly or partly within, or forming part of the boundary
     of, this Commonwealth; vesting certain powers and duties in the
     Water Supply Commission of Pennsylvania, for this purpose; and
     providing penalties for the violation of the provisions hereof."
        Section 2.  To facilitate the ends aforesaid such cities are
     further authorized to make appropriations and expenditures for
     the purpose of investigating and examining the condition of such
     rivers or streams or assisting therein, and to enter into
     contracts therefor with the respective other Federal, State, and
     local authorities or public agencies vested with power to engage
     in such undertaking.