Pennsylvania Act 1929-40 — TOWNSHIPS, LAND OWNERSHIP

Act text

TOWNSHIPS, LAND OWNERSHIP
                  Act of Mar. 21, 1929, P.L. 44, No. 40               Cl. 73
                                  AN ACT

     Providing that in any case where the trustees of the proprietors
        of any certified township of this Commonwealth have been
        incorporated by any law of this Commonwealth, and in the act
        incorporating them there is a limitation of the amount of
        property which may be held at any one time by such
        corporation, that all money or property held by such
        corporation over and above the limitation fixed in the act of
        incorporation shall be distributed amongst, and paid to, the
        public school district of such certified township or the
        public school districts of the subdivisions into which such
        certified township is divided; providing for the method of
        apportioning such money or property, and conferring power on
        the court of common pleas of the county in which such
        certified township, or the larger part thereof, is located,
        to enforce the provisions of this act.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That in any case where the
     trustees of the proprietors of any certified township of this
     Commonwealth have been incorporated by any law of this
     Commonwealth, and in such act of incorporation there is a
     limitation of the amount of property which such corporation may
     at any one time hold, the excess of the money or property held
     by any such corporation over and above such limitation shall be
     paid or caused to be paid by such corporation to the public
     school district of such certified township if such school
     district shall comprise the whole of said township; or if such
     certified township shall contain wholly within it two or more
     public school districts, then to such school districts; or if
     such certified township shall contain one or more public school
     districts wholly within it and a part or parts of a public
     school district or school districts also in such township, then
     to the school districts which lie wholly within such township
     and to the school district or school districts parts of which
     lie in such township, proportionately, for the part or parts
     thereof which are in such township; and the distribution shall
     be made or caused to be made by such corporation according to
     the method now prescribed by the laws of this Commonwealth for
     the apportionment of the State appropriation for the maintenance
     and support of the public schools of this Commonwealth to the
     school districts of the subdivisions into which such certified
     township is divided.
        Section 2.  That the court of common pleas of the county in
     which such certified township, or the larger part thereof, is
     included shall have jurisdiction to enforce the provisions of
     this act.