Pennsylvania Act 1925-328 — AIRPORTS, FIRST CLASS CITIES

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AIRPORTS, FIRST CLASS CITIES
                  Act of May 12, 1925, P.L. 614, No. 328              Cl. 11
                                  AN ACT

     Authorizing and empowering cities of the first class in this
        Commonwealth to acquire by lease, purchase, or condemnation
        proceedings any land within or, with the consent of the local
        authorities where such land is situated, without the limits
        of said cities, for the purpose of establishing and
        maintaining municipal airdromes or aviation landing fields;
        providing for the procedure in cases of condemnation and the
        extent of title acquired; authorizing the lease by the cities
        of portions thereof to individuals or corporations upon such
        terms as may be fixed, and the lease thereof to the
        Government of the United States upon nominal or other rental
        or without consideration.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That all cities of the first
     class within this Commonwealth are hereby authorized and
     empowered to acquire by lease, purchase, or condemnation
     proceedings any land lying either within or, with the consent of
     the local authorities where such land is situated without the
     limitations of said city which, in the judgment of the corporate
     authorities thereof, may be necessary and desirable for the
     purpose of establishing and maintaining municipal airdromes or
     aviation landing fields.
        Section 2.  The proceedings for the condemnation of lands
     under the provisions of this act and for the assessment of
     damages for property taken, injured, or destroyed shall be
     conducted in the manner provided by an act, entitled "An act
     authorizing and empowering the several cities of this
     Commonwealth to purchase, or acquire by condemnation
     proceedings, such real estate, within the city limits, as they
     may need, upon which to erect or construct municipal buildings,
     fire engine houses, gas and electric light works, and, within or
     without the city limits, upon which to erect hospitals, water-
     works, and poorhouses, and for the purpose of a poorfarm,"
     approved the twenty-sixth day of March, one thousand nine
     hundred and three (Pamphlet Laws, sixty-three), as amended by
     the act, approved the fourteenth day of March, one thousand nine
     hundred and seven (Pamphlet Laws, twelve). The title acquired by
     the city exercising the power of condemnation shall be a title
     in fee simple.
        Section 3.  Any city acquiring land under the provisions of
     this act may lease the same or part thereof to any individual or
     corporation desiring to use the same for the purpose of landing
     or starting an aeroplane therefrom or for other aviation
     purposes, on such terms and subject to such conditions and
     regulations as may be provided; and any such city may enter into
     a contract in the form of a lease, providing for the use of said
     land or any part thereof by the Government of the United States
     for the use by said government of said land for aviation, mail
     delivery, or other aviation purposes, upon nominal or other
     rental or without consideration.