Pennsylvania Act 1925-296 — STATE HIGHWAYS, WIDENING, ALTERING AND VACATING

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STATE HIGHWAYS, WIDENING, ALTERING AND VACATING
                  Act of May 7, 1925, P.L. 554, No. 296               Cl. 36
                                  AN ACT

     Providing for the widening, altering, or vacating of roads
        heretofore laid out within the Commonwealth, under the
        provisions of special acts of Assembly prior to one thousand
        eight hundred and seventy-three, and known as State roads.

        Section 1.  Be it enacted, &c., That any road or highway
     heretofore laid out under the provisions of any special act of
     Assembly prior to one thousand eight hundred seventy-three and
     known as a State road and not forming part of any State highway
     route shall be under and subject to the jurisdiction of the
     court of quarter sessions of the county in which the same is
     located, and shall be widened, altered, or vacated in the same
     manner and by the same procedure as township roads are widened,
     altered, or vacated.
        Section 2.  No road or highway shall be widened, altered, or
     vacated under the provisions of this act until the approval in
     writing of the Secretary of Highways is first obtained; such
     approval to be filed with the petition to the court of quarter
     sessions requesting the proposed widening, altering, or
     vacating.