Pennsylvania Act 1919-309 — SUPPLEMENTARY ACT, STREETS AND ALLEYS

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SUPPLEMENTARY ACT, STREETS AND ALLEYS
                  Act of Jul. 8, 1919, P.L. 763, No. 309              Cl. 53
        (Act repealed insofar as relates to boroughs May 4, 1927,
        P.L.519, No.336; insofar as relates to third class cities,
                     June 23, 1931, P.L.932, No.317)

                               A SUPPLEMENT

     To an act, entitled "An act in relation to the laying out,
        opening, widening, straightening, extending or vacating
        streets and alleys, and the construction of bridges in the
        several municipalities of this Commonwealth, the grading,
        paving, macadamizing or otherwise improving streets and
        alleys, providing for ascertaining damages to private
        property resulting therefrom, the assessment of the damages,
        costs and expenses thereof upon the property benefited, and
        the construction of sewers and payment of the damages, costs
        and expenses thereof, including damages to private property
        resulting therefrom," approved the sixteenth day of May, Anno
        Domini one thousand eight hundred and ninety-one (Pamphlet
        Laws, seventy-five), by providing that all municipal
        corporations of this Commonwealth in the grading of any
        street, lane, or alley, or any part thereof, shall be, and
        are hereby, authorized and empowered to use so much of the
        lots and lands abutting on the same for the construction of
        embankments, slopes, fills, and culverts as may be necessary
        and proper for the completion of the improvement; and the
        damages resulting thereby shall be regarded as other damages
        caused by the grading of streets, lanes, and alleys in said
        municipalities, and shall be paid as is now provided by
        existing laws where land is actually taken for the laying
        out, opening, widening, extending, or grading of streets,
        lanes, or alleys.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That all municipal
     corporations of this Commonwealth in the grading of any street,
     lane, or alley, or any part thereof, shall be, and are hereby,
     authorized and empowered to use so much of the lots and lands
     abutting on the same for the construction of embankments,
     slopes, fills, and culverts, as may be necessary and proper for
     the completion of the improvement; and the assessment of
     damages, costs, and expenses resulting thereby shall be regarded
     as other assessments of damages, costs, and expenses caused by
     the grading of streets, lanes, and alleys in said
     municipalities, and shall be assessed and paid as is now
     provided by existing laws where land is actually taken for the
     laying out, opening, widening, extending, vacating or grading of
     streets, lanes, or alleys.